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A really nice introduction to social media with a provocative title - nuff said.

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Saw this vid the other day - very interesting take on doing things in a different way.

http://reversegraffitiproject.com/

Wordle - Create, originally uploaded by egrommet.

A rather funky visualisation of the links in my del.icio.us account via Wordle

The other week I attended the Eduserve symposium as a virtual delegate, an interesting day which steamed the presenters and gave those of us at a distance the chance to join in via Cover It Live.

There were Tweets flying back and forth, people discussing and joining in via the back channel as well as questions being transmitted to the floor.

What did I get out of it? Detail about what the Guardian and the BBC are looking at in terms of social media, some new Twitter buddies and a lunch with my colleague David Harrison this very day.

I’ll leave David, who I stumbled into during the live blogging,  to tell you the story. But it kind of shows  how social media often has knock on effects that people often do not anticapte. In my case that would be pizza, an interesting chat and the opportunity to explore some new tools and ideas that might just provide a very interesting spin on some of the projects I’m currently looking at.

And that’s a good start from any blog posting in my humble opinion.

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Very quick post at the moment - been playing with streaming video from the N95. There are a number of services I’ve subscribed to including flixwagon, bambuser and qik

Thought I’d see what other people are thinking, there are pros and cons to each which I’ll look at later, so went to Trendpedia to see what was being said in the blog-o-sphere.

Here’s their graphical interpretation about which one is getting the most coverage from bloggers and web types.

Haven’t really used any of them enough to make my mind up yet - and don’t go looking for any vids there, embarrassed myself and deleted them.

But to be fair 66 people viewed my feeble Qik attempt at showing the web my untidy office and my favourite guitar (a Fenix telecaster copy with a nice thin neck, green burst if you are interested) and some kind soul from NYC even sent me a little greeting while I was working.

Have viewed some Bambuser streams belonging to Alison Gow, who blogs over at Headlines and Deadlines, and Joanna Geary and they were pretty cool (and worked!).

The comment facility was great with Joanna, even if I did end up making a stupid comment while she was supposed to be learning about the internet and modern journalism. (Memo to self, Twitter makes someone familiar - but remember you’ve not met them yet!)

Be interested to hear what anyone else is using and why - give me a shout, I’d be intriuged.

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