Tangled up in Purple » social-networking

Linkeracy 21 July 2009

nix — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:39:43 +0000

Nathan Barry exposes how experienced web developers happily allowed someone else access to their Twitter network. Wth the exponential growth of Twitter and other Social Networking applications, people are excitedly giving away their passwords in order to quickly jump on the latest trend.

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I’m really excited to be attending Wordcamp NZ in a couple of weeks time. I started using WordPress in August 2004 just love the way that it can be manipulated and stroked into amazing websites. I might not be the best manipulator or stroker but I still thik it’s the best blogging software out there. I’m really looking forward to meeting other WordPress geeks and afficionados.

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Another favourite, MetaFilter, celebrated its ten year anniversary last weekend. MetaFilter is the best community out there – bar none. The site is not a Web 2.0 site and that’s one of the best things about it. The community is intelligent, snarky and real. They are (mostly) self-moderating, full of real personalities and a site with really interesting subsites.

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Download Wired editor Chris Anderson‘s Free, for free.

But the funny thing about waste is that it’s all relative to your sense of scarcity. Our grandparents grew up in an age when a long-distance telephone call was an expensive luxury, to be scheduled and kept short. Even today, many find it hard to keep people of that generation on a long-distance call for very long—they still hear a meter ticking in their head and rush to finish. But our kids are growing up in an age when long distance is free on their cell phones. They’ll happily chat for hours. From the perspective of 1950s telecom costs, that’s incredibly wasteful. But today, when those costs have fallen to near zero, we don’t give it a second thought. It doesn’t feel like waste at all. Wired Magazine

And there is much, much more.

TUANZ

nix — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:15:06 +0000

My first experince at Eden Park was about twenty something years ago. I was a young Mum with a bunch of kids and we were not attending a sporting event. We were however sitting outside in the stands. I vividly remember being whipped around by the cold wind.

Today brought back some memories of that first experience. It’s been pretty wild, wet and windy here in Auckland and that weather has brought chaos to the traffic. It also brought a bit of chaos as we looked for the driest route to the conference breakouts today. At least once in the sessions the rooms were warm and dry!

I particularly enjoyed the keynote speaker’s first breakout session today. Miguel Guhlin’s session was about using opensource tools to create a safe, “walled garden” for teachers and students to collaborate and network. I have been playing with Mambo, Moodle and Elgg recently and Miguel’s work has given me some more ideas to play with.

I think the funniest
moment came late in the day. Like the good conference attendees we all are, several of us stayed for the prize draw. I was sitting next to a teacher who appeared to do some sort of worship maneouver at the first draw. He was repeating his “I never win”, mantra so loudly that I don’t actually think he realised that he had won a prize until the rest of us errupted beside him. Go Owairaka District School! Go Nga Taonga Cluster!

The next prize, the ‘man bag’, went to a teacher from Parakai School (Kirikiri Mangu Cluster) so I was pretty happy about that. Then they did the draw for a copy of Kidspiration. Some one else did the”I never win” mantra (see the photo to the left) and the name of another teacher in the cluster was called. The trouble was that she’d gone home. The mantra started again … and it was … another Owairaka teacher! Fabulous!

I wish I’d remembered my camera – the lighting in the conference hall wasn’t great for the camera phone!

In the mean time here’s one last little gem from the trade’s hall!

Don’tcha just love a good ICT conference?

Top 907

nix — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:53:03 +0000

A Web 2.0 directory: the top 907 Web 2.0 sites.

For blogging links, podcasting, video, wikis, file-sharing …

Short Bits

Thesis

nix — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 01:45:39 +0000

Imagine doing a thesis about blogging?

… it was written for people who have a basic understanding of Blogs. I looked at how Blogs have impacted business and communication, how some Blogs create revenue, how some companies are using Blogs, how Blogs greatly boost the spread of information, how Blogs add richness to the media landscape, how Blogs work in the Long Tail, how some companies are tracking the Blogosphere and what the future of Blogging may be.

Thats exactly what James Torio of everyhuman.com did.

(Via Weblog Tools)

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