Designers are making technology crucial to another area of our lives: our closets. From the practical to attention-getters, wearable technology offers new alternatives to standard geekware.
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“ The French government is planning to create a digital police unit to shut down digital pirates. Shelly Palmer of MediaBytes says it might be the most draconian anti-piracy legislation in the free world. „
France creates digital police force (via annielin)
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» 9 ways to improve your writing
(from Wright Creativity.)
1. Write more often. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but the more you write (tweet, facebook updates, emails, blog notes) the easier it will be to sit down and write.
2. Read a lot of other writers. Everyone has a different style of writing, and while you need to develop your own, reading someone else can help you to find your own voice.
3. Get a Word-a-day
calendar. Improving your vocabulary is a quick way to improving your writing. But, be careful not to try to use too much verbosity or your readers will start thinking you’re a pompous arse and will stop reading your work!
4. Take a writing class. Even the best writers need training and help sometimes. Learning from someone else or learning a new writing style (like writing about business? Take a short story class!) can really help your writing overall.
5. Read a Thesaurus. Similar to the ‘word-a-day’ but this one can help so you don’t use the same words over and over. Variety is the spice of life
6. Be accountable. Today, I was really struggling with the desire to write. But, I had written every weekday for over 7 weeks and didn’t want to break my streak (okay, so I missed 1 day in there, but c’mon!). So, I forced myself to sit down, grabbed a beer, and just started writing down blog ideas. Pretty soon, this one had developed.
7. It’s not plagiarism if you take an idea, give them credit and expand on it. No one says you have to come up brand new ideas every day. If someone writes an article you find interesting, feel free to write a post about their post and just add to it!
8. Face facts. Some days you’re good, some days you aren’t, on the days that you are in the zone, write more so you have a back log of great articles to use on days when you don’t really feel like writing.
9. If all else fails, have a glass of wine, a beer, a cup of coffee. Whatever liquid motivates you and gets your juices flowing.
Still need ideas? Check out a few more posts about writing tips…
Share your tips for what keeps you motivated to write!
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» SA Twitter baby makes history by trending on Twitter #MaxDay
15/05/2009 15:34 - (SA)
Cape Town - Newborn Cape Town baby Max may be just a few hours old, but he already has a record number of fans on Twitter, a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets.
Max’s mother is Tertia Albertyn, a South African who got famous for blogging about her battle with infertility and then winning that battle, which she later also published in a book titled So Close.
Max is Tertia’s third baby, but what makes him extra special is the fact that his mother tweeted all the way through the birth, including some hilarious details.
That’s pretty cool. However, what makes Max extraordinary, is the fact that he was listed as a “trending topic” on the front page of Twitter. Now that’s uber cool.
Tertia’s Twitter friends from all over the world, better known as “followers”, started tweeting #MaxDay to congratulate her. Twitter registered so many #MaxDay tweets, that Max made it to Twitter’s list of “trending topics” of the day.
Yes, little Max Albertyn from Cape Town has become global news on arguably the world’s hottest new communication system.
Twitter has over 7 million active users worldwide, with around 10 000 accounts in South Africa.
- News24
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(via luckyshirt)
I think the thing that makes the note is he says “right down my details”.
JOE, I THINK YOUR WRITE.
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Ye Olde Twittre
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Where is everyone?This really nice and well prepared chart shows us the change of media and way to connect and communicate for the last two hundred years plus a sneak preview in the future for ten years.
The article explains step by step the change in communication from the 19th century and the face to face period to print media, radio and televison and finally the trends in the internet with lots of details and a good synopsis.
I think, the most interesting part is the look in the future – the subheadline is called 2020 - Traditional is dead – which lists some interesting facts and ideas for the way of communicate and interact and makes suppositions based on current trends, open for discussion.
