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darkdippy: Nine Geek Chic Outfits Designers are making...

Mon, 18 May 2009 15:13:58 +0300

Nine Geek Chic Outfits

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.

"The French government is planning to create a digital police unit to shut down digital pirates...."

Mon, 18 May 2009 15:02:53 +0300

“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)

9 ways to improve your writing

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:57:35 +0300

9 ways to improve your writing:

darkdippy:

(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-daycalendar. 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!

SA Twitter baby makes history by trending on Twitter #MaxDay

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:56:00 +0300

SA Twitter baby makes history by trending on Twitter #MaxDay:

tjpytheas:

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

tjpytheas: mikemorrow: joeschmitt: (via luckyshirt) I think...

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:55:48 +0300

tjpytheas:

mikemorrow:

joeschmitt:

(via luckyshirt)

I think the thing that makes the note is he says “right down my details”.

JOE, I THINK YOUR WRITE.

The current state of affirs in the automobile industry?...

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:54:49 +0300

The current state of affirs in the automobile industry? GLUTTONOUS overspend?

tjpytheas:

nakano:

mitaimon:

ujitomo:

http://www.urlesque.com/2008/12/23/has-edwin-wurms-art-gained-weight/

tjpytheas: (via obsessivecompulsive)

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:53:30 +0300

tjpytheas:

(via obsessivecompulsive)

tjpytheas: obsessivecompulsive: benjaminpalmer: Ye Olde...

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:52:40 +0300

tjpytheas:

obsessivecompulsive:

benjaminpalmer:

Ye Olde Twittre

"Culture wars are so ’90s."

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:52:16 +0300

“Culture wars are so ’90s.”

- Barack Obama to Planned Parenthood, 2007 (via peterfeld) (via soupsoup) (via tjpytheas)

tjpytheas: artistspaid: zehnuhr: Where is everyone? This...

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:51:57 +0300

tjpytheas:

artistspaid:

zehnuhr:

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.

tjpytheas: tryingtofollow: Automobile Abandonment Zones, I...

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:50:52 +0300

tjpytheas:

tryingtofollow:

Automobile Abandonment Zones, I think this could catch on…
via nytimes.com

♥

gary: Communication in 2009 In a day and age were we can...

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:49:56 +0300

gary:

Communication in 2009 In a day and age were we can monitor personal and consumer brands there is no excuse to not engage in respective debate. Watch this video to see a real live example off what happened to me today.

Having trouble viewing this video? Try the Quicktime version.
Gabe Kangas on Twitter

tjpytheas: 101mg: louvature: The Burger King guy really...

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:48:05 +0300

tjpytheas:

101mg:

louvature:

The Burger King guy really creeps me out. Scary.

Burger King Holidays

THANK YOU! It’s the creepiest fast food character hands down.

tjpytheas: South African national broadcaster seeks treasury...

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:46:31 +0300

tjpytheas:

South African national broadcaster seeks treasury funds. Bailout. “if the SABC were a private company, it would be trading illegally as it is technically bankrupt…” ~ The Weekender

Breaking: Most Web Companies FAILb

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:45:27 +0300

Breaking: Most Web Companies FAILb:

mashable:

Blogger and social media specialist Meg Pickard posted an image to Flickr this week showing how many “Web 2.0″ era companies have failed to date. The image takes a popular representation of…

Repeets Tracks Twitter’s Hottest Retweets

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:44:18 +0300

Repeets Tracks Twitter’s Hottest Retweets:

mashable:

A new service launching today adds more momentum to the growing “retweets” movement. Retweeting, as we covered in our article HOW TO: Retweet on Twitter, is becoming an important way to…

tryingtofollow: Super creative ad campaign about landmines....

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:43:34 +0300

tryingtofollow:

Super creative ad campaign about landmines.
Picture yourself living with the dangerous threat of stepping on a landmine at any time.
The campaign is already finished but the video tells the story.

♥

P.S. Don’t forget to Vote!

HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Twitter #Hashtags

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:42:42 +0300

HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Twitter #Hashtags:

mashable:

One of the most complex features of Twitter for new users to understand is the hashtag, a topic with a hash symbol (”#”) at the start to identify it. Twitter hashtags like #followfriday help…

To infinity and beyoooooooooooond! tjpytheas: 101mg: (via...

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:41:08 +0300

To infinity and beyoooooooooooond!

tjpytheas:

101mg:

(via snuh)

tjpytheas: soupsoup: brooklynmutt: Overtime segment of Friday...

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:39:54 +0300

tjpytheas:

soupsoup:

brooklynmutt:

Overtime segment of Friday night’s Real Time w/ Bill Maher:

David Simon, creator of HBO’s The Wire
Amy Holmes , political commentator
Richard Brookhiser, journalist and historian
Dan Savage, columnist

Good stuff here about new media, newspapers, etc.

Simon makes a great point about cable television and how that model could work for newspapers.