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Linkeracy 28 May 2010

nix — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:19:21 +0000

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 to what was imagined in the mid-nineties. Some great sound text-bytes for a journey in your head.

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The Oatmeal on why it’s better to pretend that you don’t know anything about computers …

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ZScreen – an open-source screen capture program for Microsoft Windows. Really simple to use!

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And … check out @Astro_Soichi’s Twitpic stream for the most out of this world photos around at the moment.

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Linkeracy 18 January 2009

nix — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:48:45 +0000

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

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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?

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The Official Google Blog reports that there are now more that 100,000 knols. What’s a knol? It’s a unit of knowledge, an article written by someone who is an authority on a topic. Better, worse or different to the Wikipedia?

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Check out the VisualWikipedia for a mashup of the Wikipedia, pictures and videos. Might be worth keeping an eye on.

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Why translating need to be taken seriously. A good laugh from the BBC.

Linkeracy 12 October 2008

nix — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:20:50 +0000

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

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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; edit them with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Trim; set In/Out points and convert them into muxed or demuxed files, or export them to QuickTime, AVI, DV and MPEG-4 files with more than professional quality, so you can easily import them in a DVD authoring tool, and use them with many other applications or devices.

This is the best tool we have ever found for converting DVD files into a format that can be used in WIndows Movie Maker.

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Have a look at Adeona to install opensource laptop tracking software. This free tool, developed by the University of Washington, will periodically send off an IP address update. If you are on a Mac laptop with an iSight camera there is an option for you as well.

According to the site

Adeona has three main properties:

Private: Adeona uses state-of-the-art cryptographic mechanisms to ensure that the owner is the only party that can use the system to reveal the locations visited by a device.
Reliable: Adeona uses a community-based remote storage facility, ensuring retrievability of recent location updates.
Open source and free: Adeona’s software is licensed under GPLv2. While your locations are secret, the tracking system’s design is not.

There are some really interesting philosophical discussions about what is tracked with this software.

Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner’s choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where they use their laptop.

Worth a look I think.

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My own instructions for uploading and embedding video files using WordPress 2.5, 2.6

Linkeracy – 13th March 2008

nix — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:37:59 +0000

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.

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Apostrophe Abuse – the kind of blog that Lynne Truss would like to read.

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Passiveaggressivenotes.com -”painfully polite and hilariously hostile” writings from shared spaces the world over.

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Malwarez – Amazing 3d visualisations “of worms, viruses, trojans and spyware code. For each piece of disassembled code, API calls, memory addresses and subroutines are tracked and analyzed. Their frequency, density and grouping are mapped to the inputs of an algorithm that grows a virtual 3D entity. Therefore the patterns and rhythms found in the data drive the configuration of the artificial organism.” Via Life on the Wicked Stage

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Linkeracy – 17th February 2008

nix — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:13:51 +0000

– 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 a very good way for some of us to spend some time tidying up our completely out of control tags.

– How to get your favourite extensions working with Firefox 3 beta

– Me too (for all of my friends who laugh at my cooking show addiction).

nix — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:11:12 +0000

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

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

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Mauricio Freitas gets his hands on an OLPC at CES.

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nix — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:19:37 +0000

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

Linkeracy

nix — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:28:00 +0000

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 things!

Read the Time article

Get your own seal

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nix — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:13:04 +0000

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

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nix — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:31:46 +0000

Cool photo toys from fd’s flickr toys

Camera Clean Out