Post-university life – Page 5

Andrew Keen, Cynthia Mckinney and Jeff Blankfort

Sep 11, 2007

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteI recently dropped by the Frontline club to listen to what Andrew Keen had to say and his talk was really interesting. There are a few ideas that I found were interesting and I’m still planning on getting something written up about the event. Last night I met up with Documentally…

The podcasting demographic

Sep 3, 2007

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richard

in observation, PodcampUK, Post-university life, tech related

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhilst listening to a conversation between several podcasters in their debriefing they were asking the question of how to involve a different demographic in the process of podcasting. This is an interesting question. As one participant pointed out the demographic seems to be for white males over 30 years of age to…

PodcampUK – Part 1 of the debrief

Sep 3, 2007

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richard

in observation, PodcampUK, Post-university life, social networking, travel, Uncategorized

Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are many podcamps but Podcampuk was my podcamp. This was an event which was similar to just one previous experience. It was an event where everyone you talked to had at least one website and others may have had several. They also used twitter and prepared radio programs. What is great…

Podcamp UK Day 1

Sep 1, 2007

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richard

in editing, Post-university life, social networking

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday has been an informative day where there have been many conferences to participate in. The morning saw the introduction of the event whilst later on a great discussion took place about social networking and I’ve got the footage to give you an idea of the direction the conference was taking.…

What I’m reading – KadarÃ©’s L’Hiver de la grande Solitude

Aug 28, 2007

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richard

in observation, Post-university life, reviews, travel

Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom friendships and the people we meet so our knowledge of authors increases. It is through English literature classes that I learned to appreciate Milan Kundera. I read all his books over a period of years. Following a conversation with an Albanian friend I heard of Ismail Kadare. He originally wrote in…

Facebook, a personal rather than social network

Aug 28, 2007

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richard

in facebook, observation, Post-university life, social networking, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesTen years ago if you met someone and they gave you their visit card you’d put it away somewhere and eventually you might have come back to it but the information would need updating. Over the years social networking tools on the web have evolved from simple mail clients to web forums…

On the challenge of being brief.

Aug 27, 2007

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richard

in editing, observation, Post-university life, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesBack in 2000 I arrived in the South West of England as an 18 year old who was used to watching 24 minute documentaries on a range of subjects and I wanted to do the same thing. For the course I was doing when I was told that I had to do…

Social networking and freebase

Aug 24, 2007

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richard

in facebook, observation, Post-university life, social networking, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs you’re painfully aware by now there are hundreds of social networking websites but none of them have a communal database. If you’re on orkut your data stays there, if you’re on yahoo communities your data is there. All these social networking websites are very similar in what they ask of you…

Cheapening the user experience

Aug 24, 2007

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richard

in facebook, Post-university life, tech related

Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are a great diversity of websites out there and each one has it’s own strengths. As a result of this it is not unusual for me to visit twenty to thirty websites on a daily basis, from the likes of twitter, my own website, news sites and more. What this means…

As featured on Operator 11

Aug 22, 2007

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richard

in fun, Post-university life, tech related, twitter, video archive

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter a long but great day of work I came home to do The Twitter Vox show with Loudmouthman and two guests. We were joined by Goldie Katsu and Malburns. We discussed what it’s like to reach 3000 tweets and the conversation moved towards the advantages of using twitter when part…

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