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Entries from June 2008

NAB justifies spamming

June 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Thanks to SilkCharm for bringing this to my attention.
This video is a jaw-dropper — Jim Stewart, the video blogger - is trying to educate the National Australia Bank that SPAM - however “well” or “poorly” executed by the PR agency is a sleazy business practice at best. 
He certainly made a valiant effort to put the [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Social networking

Geeking Out!

June 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Geeking Out!
Originally uploaded by kerryank

Just a quick (or should I say qik) post before bed time.
Tonight I tried using my Nokia 95 trained on a computer monitor to live stream video from Second Life to the internet using qik.com
By setting up qik on my phone for streaming rather than quality, I didn’t get backed up [...]

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Tags: Broadband · My personal learning journey · Second Life · Technologies · digital photography

RSS explanation for mom

June 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Moms keep you honest. My mother and I cover a lot of ground in our weekly chats and this week we were talking about Internet Neutrality, how internet newbies can find sites to trust and RSS feeds.
As far as Net Neutrality goes, I was able to tell her I’d researched it and pointed her at [...]

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Tags: Social networking · Technologies

Really well done conference marketing

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments

You’d expect it from the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers conference (cheekily called SOBcon) web site, I suppose.
The clever little elements to this site — the fact that it’s a Wiki, the badges that people can put on their web site if they are speaking or attending, the prominent RSS buttons, links to the conference blog, [...]

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Tags: My personal learning journey

Want a free mobi site?

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Every 15 seconds another mobile account is added to the more than 3 billion existing ones according to an April 2008 press release from the GSM Association. So when I saw a web site promising me the ability to create a mobile compatible web site in minutes just after lunch today — I thought I’d [...]

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Tags: My personal learning journey · Web sites · mobile technologies