• Am feeling like a grumpy old woman. A loud bunch of new students has invaded my library space and spoiled my concentration. iPod turned up. 4 hours ago
  • Just logged in and realised that I am sitting on 666 tweets. No wonder I was feeling Devilish today.This update will put the kibosh on that! 4 hours ago
  • School interviews tonight. Proud of my boy's hard work. Hugged & shown off by Yr13 who I taught in Yr 6. Awesome to see the man in the boy. 17 hours ago

Vanity

Linkeracy 18 January 2009

Obama’s Social Media Toolkit – how to grow a brand / use new media technologies effectively / the crawl, walk, run, fly philosophy – from Steve Rubel

The next step in applying Gladwell/ Tipping Point theories to twitter users. An interesting look at the Tipping Point and Twitter. Are you a connector, a salesman or a maven?

The [...]

Linkeracy 12 October 2008

Test the strength of your email security – CNET check out how easy it is for someone else to recover YOUR password.

Lifehacker’s hivemind give you the best five media converters but …

UPDATE: MPEG StreamClip from Squared Five is an amazingly excellent tool to

to open and play most movie formats including MPEG files or transport streams; [...]

Linkeracy – 13th March 2008

Jan Chipchase researches “the collision of people, society and technology, drawing on issues related to the design research that I conduct on behalf of my employer – Nokia.”

I found this blog after watching a fascinating TED talk about the way the world interacts with their cell phones.

Apostrophe Abuse – the kind of blog that [...]

Linkeracy – 17th February 2008

– 10 useful email addresses for when the interweb is broken … or bandwidth is low … or that might be useful if you are using your mobile phone. I use the flickr address quite often.

– Windows del.icio.us tag manager. This might be in complete opposition to the philiosophy behind del.icio.us or it might be [...]

Some good and thoughtful iPhone commentary: here and here. And some ideas from BoingBoing’s writers and readership.

A pork flavoured postage stamp to commemorate the Year of the Pig via BoingBoing.

Mauricio Freitas gets his hands on an OLPC at CES.

Podcasting Essentials – part one of a series from someone who knows!

Today’s furore about the Time Magazine article that makes a lot of us the person of the year is really quite funny. There’s them that’s calling it all a huge publicity stunt and there’s them that’s getting quite excited. And then there’s us who are accepting the award and getting on with other [...]

A useful explanation of Digg – for those who wish to know!

Cool photo toys from fd’s flickr toys

Russell Brown thinks that we may get an iTunes store here in NZ really soon. Add to that the increase in iPod advertising and … let’s see…