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Linkeracy 28 May 2010

Let’s see if we can get a new word into the online vernacular – linkeracy. Linkeracy, as defined by me is the currency of links.

Here goes!
Kevin Kelly on Wired Magazine’s early predictions …

… it is clear that all predictions of the future are really just predictions of the present.

Read the post, it’s an insight [...]

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