Monthly Archives: August 2007

Heading North

I am going through a dizzying process of change at the moment in just about every part of my life. Don’t worry - I haven’t found God or dedicated myself to the Cult Of Dave Allen just yet. Which isn’t to say that either are unpleasant things to do. But right now all kinds of [...]

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Mood Messaging Made Easy With MoodSwing & MoodBlast

If you, like me, have an unhealthy addiction to microblogging, social network and IM services, and happen to be on a Mac, you can ring out the bells of glory today. MoodSwing, a Quicksilver plugin, and its menu-bar cousin MoodBlast are a pair of must have tools that make it easy to beam out your [...]

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Beth’s Blog & I

I recently made contact with one of my social media heroines Beth Kanter, of Beth’s Blog fame, which was happy news indeed. So imagine my joy when I found myself featured on those very pages yesterday.

If for some crazy reason you don’t know who Beth is, you owe it to yourself to check out her [...]

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PacificIT Podcast Appearance Today With Fellow Tech Evangelist Robert Sanzalone

It is with no small amount of excitement that I will be appearing today on the awesome PacificIT podcast as the guest of fellow Japan dweller and tech evangelist Robert Sanzalone. The podcast will be broadcast live at 7pm PST, or - if you’re in Japan - 11am. But fear not if you can’t make [...]

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Public Domain Video For All Of Your MashUp Needs - 9 Legal Sources

Public Domain Video is out there in plentiful supply if you’re willing to have a poke around, which is a godsend for those looking to source moving image content free of copyright restrictions.
The emerging medium of the video mashup - remixes that recontextualize and repurpose video content - can be a powerful way to communicate [...]

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Facebook Status RSS Feeds For All - Wonder Screenshot Tour

Facebook Status RSS Feeds have given me rather a headache over the last couple of months. For whatever reason they have been very well hidden by the Facebook elves to make it as difficult as possible to subscribe to them. Okay, I could live with not having one, while others flaunted them like some wispy [...]

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