ICCMSN2008 Conference Report

With Peta Hopkins I attended the inaugural International Conference on Computer-Mediated Social Networks 2008 hosted by the Information Sciences (Information Systems) Department part of the Commerce Faculty at the University of Otago, Dunedin , New Zealand, over 11-13 June 2008. The conference was slow to use social networking tools but a Twitter account was set [...]

Blogging 2.0 is Upon Us Already

According to some we are entering into the next phase of blogging inevitably named Blogging 2.0.
Duncan Riley (blogoz panellist and ex TechCrunch blogger) has recently created his own professional blog, Inquistr. He takes a cogent look at  ‘blogging 2.0′ where all of a person’s social media activity on sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube as well [...]

Showing Twitter Trends with Twist

Via Twitter of course, Peta put me on to Twist. This site allows you to enter one or more keywords whose frequency of occurrence in Twitter are plotted so that trends emerge.
I quickly tried it with ‘twitter’ and an unexpected trend resulted:

From memory I believe the two noticeable peaks correspond to significant outages for the [...]

CodeCampOz 2008 Report

I attended an expanded CodeCampOz at CSU Wagga Wagga campus during 25-27 April 2008. There were extra sessions on the Friday afternoon this year with plenty of new .NET technologies to catch up with. What is so valuable about CodeCampOz is that the speakers are practising software development professionals from around Australia. We had a [...]

Check Your Twitter Personality

Alex Iskold suggests ways to have fun with Twitter. He suggests the personalities are:

Listener. Only occasionally tweet but have lots of followers.
Talker. Tweet a lot but have few followers.
Hub. Lots of tweets and followers.

Explanation of Twitter in a Couple of Minutes

I am finding my Facebook usage dropping as my Twitter usage rises. Persuading some friends and colleagues to tweet with me and explaining Twitter’s niche in the social media spectrum just became easier. As usual Lee LeFever came to the rescue with his CommonCraft video below: