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What the F**K is Social Media

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My Microblogs for the Month of July 2009

Canadians vow mass-mooning of US spy-blimp - http://bit.ly/18jaFu 1:33 PM Jul 31st from TweetDeck When ad campaigns go bad - http://bit.ly/2Rf3im 1:15 PM Jul 31st from TweetDeck RT @ wired : Apple has issued an iPhone software update to patch the SMS security hole unveiled this week: http://bit.ly/Wb7Ov 1:07 PM Jul 31st from TweetDeck @ disqus is backup thanks. 10:09 AM Jul 31st from TweetDeck @ disqus causing 20+ sec load times on our sites, removing now... 9:40 AM Jul 31st from TweetDeck @ GreatDismal http://bit.ly/2jLTE avail in canada 9:38 PM Jul 30th from TweetDeck in reply to GreatDismal Just sent an hour looking through someone's sloppy/lazy velocity code to fix a bug.... good times. 5:56 PM Jul 30th from TweetDeck Looking for the best weather source in Victoria and southern Vancouver island - http://www.victoriaweather.ca 4:03 PM Jul 29th from TweetDeck Mac users can now Eye-fi - http://bit.ly/52pTf 11:55 AM Jul 29th from Twee...

Shameless Self Promotion with Social Media

Recently I've been getting a lot of questions from co-workers and friends about Facebook & Twitter and other social media and how it can be used to promote their websites and online business. I work in the media business and the newspapers are looking to grow readership and ultimately drive traffic to their websites. In these lean times people are also looking for ways to self promote in non traditional methods and emerging trends without spending any money. Here are some basic social media sites and tips to driving traffic and readership on your website: 1. Start a Blog - In the fast paced world of micro-blogging, traditional blogs are still a relevant form of social media. Blogs that inform and help people are worth reading. And Opinion based witting is perhaps the most popular form of blogging today. With everything you do you should try and keep you Blog on topic and with a general purpose. Of course with Blogging the hardest thing is to keep it going, so set some re...

Microblogs for the Month of June 2009

RT @ starbulletin : Amazon cuts ties with Hawaii http://tinyurl.com/m5ckc7 1:38 PM Jun 30th from TweetDeck Seems like the Shaw @ home phone network is having "network difficulties" in Victoria "at this time" 11:36 AM Jun 30th from TweetDeck I just turned Civilization (MEGAPLEX), 2008 By Marco Brambilla into the coolest screen saver - http://bit.ly/13gOMz 11:28 AM Jun 30th from TweetDeck Running #fx35 on my macbook, seems like it browses faster... 11:21 AM Jun 30th from TweetDeck Looks like hosting provider Rackspace is backup 4:37 PM Jun 29th from web Victoria will be the first police department in North America to use body-mounted surveillance cameras - http://bit.ly/OWo51 3:47 PM Jun 29th from TweetDeck One trippy elevator ride - http://bit.ly/BUhoF 3:10 PM Jun 29th from TweetDeck RT @ wired : How to photograph random people on the street: http://is.gd/1eMAh 3:10 PM Jun 26th from TweetDeck RT @ paulbalcerak : RT @ GregMit...

Online Longevity - my mid 90s website still going strong!

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Today I was watching a video on the first bloggers, and it occurred to me that I was blogging back in the mid 90s and yet the pages I created are long since dead and buried, fading away long ago with my University & Geocites Accounts. Then I recalled that I had built a website while working at the University of Toronto back in 1995/96 and that I had last updated the website with a slick javascript drop-down menu and stylish background some time in mid 1997. So I looked up the site , and behold, they have not changed it from my original 1997 design! WOW 12 years and the site has remained virtual unchanged. They have of course updated and augmented content, but my original structure, headings, logos & navigation have remained and somehow stood the test of webtime! I don't know how or why this has happened. It was a simple site and the original requirements were to keep it lean and image free for quick modem downloads. It seems those simple requirements have sustained the s...

Microblogs (aka Tweets) for the Month of May 2009

@ AgeOfPersuasion Great Coverage of the Bush/Clinton event - thx 2:58 PM May 29th from TweetDeck in reply to AgeOfPersuasion WTFRT @ AgeOfPersuasion : McKenna: "why do we now need passports to go to U.S. considering our good history?" Both Presidents: "News to us." 2:39 PM May 29th from TweetDeck Good twitter coverage of the Clinton/Bush discussion in Toronto -@ AgeOfPersuasion 2:37 PM May 29th from web RT @ AgeOfPersuasion : Guy to Bush in Dallas: You look just like George W Bush. Bush: I get that all the time. Guy: Must make you mad. 1:43 PM May 29th from TweetDeck Lunch time video of the day - TED Jacek Utko designs to save newspapers - http://bit.ly/14zLOS 12:07 PM May 29th from TweetDeck My Friday #poll : Viemo VS Youtube 12:03 PM May 29th from TweetDeck My #followfriday : architecture = @ archdaily , newmedia = @ sethlong , writter = @ GreatDismal , webmonkey = @ webmonkey 11:59 AM May 29th from TweetDeck ...

My Microblog posts for April 2009

@ solutious - Nope - its the GPU 3rd one here in the office to go 2:05 PM Apr 29th from TweetDeck in reply to solutious I am amazed a how good Apple Customer Relations is ,Thanks Shaundra for your excellent service. 2:04 PM Apr 29th from TweetDeck According to diagnostic tools my 1.5 yr old macbook pro is not covered by the NVIDIA GPU failure.. I'm looking at $1,000 bill to fix! 1:50 PM Apr 29th from web Phoning apple customer relations.. lets see what happens... 1:41 PM Apr 29th from web Seriously whats with all the local news in BC on public Sex? I know times are tough, but man find some where a bit better than a dumpster! 11:08 AM Apr 29th from TweetDeck SIgn of the economic times? - Couple goes for a roll in the hay in the trash - http://www.bclocalnews.com/... 11:06 AM Apr 29th from TweetDeck RT @ BlackPressMedia : Transit cops catch gunslinger having sex: http://www.bclocalnews.com/... 10:55 AM Apr 29th from TweetDeck I ...