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Replacing FaceBook with Meetup.com, Replacing the past with the present and the future

Feb 11, 2019

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in facebook, seesmic, social media, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesI have had a meetup.com account since I was using yahoo as my primary e-mail provider. For years my account was dormant because activities that I were interested in were either in another country or at a time when I could not participate. Recently I have found that activities are at times…

Ridley Scott is exploring an idea discussed by Dziga Vertov several decades ago

Jul 25, 2010

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richard

in lifestream, observation, seesmic, social media, social media living room, travel, Video

Reading Time: 2 minutesDisclaimer: These are thoughts, rather than a well structured post. Ridley Scott wants your user generated videos for a film “A Day on Earth” and whilst people are hyping this idea as something new the concept is an old one. Dziga Vertov had an idea that he would capture Life Unawares. Eventually…

Twhirl and video recording

Jan 24, 2009

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in seesmic

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLoic Le Meur yesterday released Twhirl to anyone willing to give their name and e-mail address. As a result I am using the latest version of twhirl and it finally offers the ability to record straight from twhirl. That means you can record video straight from twhirl. No more web interface.…

Le meur, Seesmic and some images

Dec 21, 2008

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in leweb, seesmic, social media

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhilst everyone that was present at the Paris Seesmeetup has gone home to their day to day lives the images taken are still doing the rounds. I noticed that two of my images were included in Loic Le meur’s blog. Normally all the Francofous should be able to name every shown.…

A busy few days

Dec 4, 2008

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in Nanowrimo, seesmic, social media, travel

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTomorrow I will be in Lausanne once more, this time to meet the people from Bloggy Friday. It’s Switzerland’s bloggers and social media types coming together for a chat and the traditional fondue (or so it’s been for the past few weeks) and an opportunity to hear about new projects. Last…

Ijustine, me and seesmic

Nov 30, 2008

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in seesmic

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNo face to face meeting but I appear in the seesmic plug by Ijustine for the Macbreak Episode . It’s quite amusing to see me in the same video clip as her 🙂

The Social media Misnomer

Nov 28, 2008

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in seesmic, social media, tech related, twitter

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I spent three hours chatting to people in Australia, Sweden and France via both twitter and plurk and it felt great and the reason for this is that it was personal. We hear so much and read even more about the social media and the social web but there is…

The online digital self

Oct 13, 2008

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in seesmic, social media, twitter

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 1999 I decided that I would spend 21 days without touching a computer once. That’s because I was in Tanzania for a trip during which we helped to build schools for children in the area. I had decided to do that because so many spoke about the illness of spending too…

The Francofous like to migrate

Oct 9, 2008

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in observation, seesmic, social media

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Francofous are part of the seesmic community and can be differentiated by their ability to speak french and their avatars. Originally formed around Seesmic and twitter they are now migrating to both plurk and phreadz, two services I have talked about in the past. What is nice about this community…

Sep 11, 2008

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in seesmic, social media

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I met, Gael MÃ©troz, a guy who decided to travel along the trail of Nicholas Bouvier shortly after his studies. It was an opportunity to try the seesmic style of interview at the City Club in Lausanne. The idea is simple. Those doing the interview have a laptop with a…

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