Category Archives: Blogging

My response to yet another survey – Is your train station accessible? – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

So.. ABC are running a survey on accessible train stations. If you’re a wheelchair user or care for someone in one, maybe you’re a parent using a pram or you just have trouble with stairs, take our survey and tell us your experience using your local train network. Source: Is your train station accessible? WeContinueContinue reading “My response to yet another survey – Is your train station accessible? – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)”

The Ideal Length for All Online Content

Learn the ideal length of Facebook posts, tweets, blog posts, Google+ headlines, title tags, paragraphs, and so much more.   The ideal length of a tweet is 100 characters The ideal length of a Facebook post is less than 40 characters The ideal length of a Google+ headline is less than 60 characters The idealContinueContinue reading “The Ideal Length for All Online Content”

Listener’s Poker

Over on his blog, my mate Kent has started a game of listeners poker. He explains it like this: [It’s like]  Liar’s Poker, but with sound.  Somebody pick something good, and others try to top it.  We’re talking playing, and musicianship.  Not just some studio-created and network-marketed nonsense.  Music.  Reeeeeel music. Well, I’m game. AndContinueContinue reading “Listener’s Poker”

Enterprise: Social Media Staff Guidelines list

This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. via Enterprise: List of 40 Social Media Staff Guidelines » Laurel Papworth @SilkCharm.

EverPress – Re-visiting Evernote as blog publishing engine

Back in June last year I wrote about how I was trying to use Evernote as a way of publishing to my WordPress blog.  At that time, I was using a third party plug-in for Word Press called WP-o-matic to autopost entries from Evernote which I got from a RSS feed published from a publicContinueContinue reading “EverPress – Re-visiting Evernote as blog publishing engine”

Munging Evernote as a blog publishing engine

Update: If you are interested in this post, you may also like to read a later one I wrote that uses the wp plugin “Everpress”. I’ve been, and always am, looking for ways to streamline the process of getting the things I see online or come across on my computer out into the Intertubes -ContinueContinue reading “Munging Evernote as a blog publishing engine”

venturousaustralia.com.au is go

When the Review of the National Innovation System was released last month we thought it was worth talking about on our podcast. So Myself, Mike and Laurel hooked up, to be joined during the show by Kristin. I had created a aggregated feed around the topic using Yahoo Pipes and pimped it on Twitter andContinueContinue reading “venturousaustralia.com.au is go”

Miscellaneous small thoughts loosley blogged

Photo: Kamyar Adl Some thoughts of recent, spurred on by many things. I had been thinking about returning to more ‘stream of conscious’ blogging but hadn’t got there – so it’s about time I did. But this might not be one of them. It used to be people blogged heaps….then something, or some things happened.ContinueContinue reading “Miscellaneous small thoughts loosley blogged”

Isolated isolation post on Lifekludger

Sometimes I have troubles deciding where something I write fits. I’m torn between this blog or  lifekludger. There’s so much of  me that overlaps both. So, for those who might read this blog but not the other, there’s something over on my Lifekludger blog I wrote titled “Isolation kills” you might be interested in. IsolationContinueContinue reading “Isolated isolation post on Lifekludger”

Extraordinary Everyday Lives #032 : Introducing Kent

The latest EELS podcast is up. In it we welcome Kent as a new co-host. EELS 32 – 24th August 2007 – Introducing kent Interestingly, Chris Carfi, who we had on show #30, has posed a timely post on one of the topics we talk about on the latest show. From his full post hereContinueContinue reading “Extraordinary Everyday Lives #032 : Introducing Kent”

Constellations of Context

“And so the chaotic internet suddenly begins to align into constellations of context”. Back here somewhere in 2005 I was hung up on the concept of context. Well, it’s recently been surfacing again and I serendipitously came across a clipping I made back in beginning of 2006 as I was thinking about it back then.ContinueContinue reading “Constellations of Context”

Kent swivels

Here’s my submission of blogs for Kent’s Swivel feeds experiment.jp rangaswami – confused of calcutta – http://confusedofcalcutta.comjp is a kind of information hero of mine. something about how he sees things just clicks with me in totally perpendicular ways. he’s the cio of bt global services.nick hodge – mungenet – http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/Uncle Nick is a MungeContinueContinue reading “Kent swivels”

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it

That’s one of my chief guiding principals. If something does the job, go with it until it doesn’t.So, turns out there was something I wanted to do on this blog that my ole WordPress v1.5 install wouldn’t support, so I’ve just upgraded it to v2.It went fairly painless. I disabled plugins, copied the directory overContinueContinue reading “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it”

Facebook and Myspace – buckets of lemmings?

Kent asks a genuine question on his blog about the popularity of things like Facebook and Myspace. What is so much better about Facebook (and MySpace and other similar platforms) than an ordinary blog on a popular platform- say WordPress? Maybe it’s just that the likes of Facebook, Myspace are seen as a ‘place’ toContinueContinue reading “Facebook and Myspace – buckets of lemmings?”

My blog promotion advice for Ali in Kenya

Update: Tools and more tips here and here. Well, I got a signal in the ether from Beth Kanter about Alison Lowndes asking how Ali could best promote the AVIF Volunteers blog to get the message out about her work with children in Kenya. I’m no A-list blogger but have been pleased about connections myContinueContinue reading “My blog promotion advice for Ali in Kenya”