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Democamp 12
→: Democamp 12Monday was Democamp 12, I heard about it in the morning and managed to get a ticket (someone dropped out). It was really a great evening; I met some really cool people and won a model plane. Events: Betidings and Twegather First up presenting was Betidings. The concept is that you have a calendar of…
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Inspiration
→: InspirationI’m having a slightly crazy week. On Monday, I went to democamp (this was really great and I met some really cool people – I’ll write more about it later). Tuesday, uOttawa WISE had a talk from Dr Rekha Mehta (really good – great turnout). Yesterday was not so great. I had my best TA…
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Spammers etc.
→: Spammers etc.I got another irrelevant @ message. The content of this one was a link to … you knew where I was going with that. I don’t need to say it! Check out the graph for the originator – @BaileyWolfeaem: Again, lots of one way links to “normal” Twitter uses (who have reciprocal conversations). the graph…
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@ Message Spam
→: @ Message SpamI used Twitter’s new “Report as Spam” feature today for the first time, after I got a bizarre @ message from @billy_Napper_ (Following 0, 0 Followers) about the top 10 hosting sites. I don’t pretend to know all the different kinds of spam on Twitter, but there are those spammers that follow you in order…
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Week in Brief
→: Week in BriefGoals for this week were: Next Twitter Visualization (super excited about this) CA Project outline Read 5 papers Marking :’( Move ToDo Lists over to Remember The Milk Write more on thesis, get to the point where papers can be integrated Write survey for other project (more soon!) 3 blog posts I also: Worked on…
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Awesome Quote from Clay Shirky
→: Awesome Quote from Clay ShirkyGives you something to think about, huh? This stuff that’s so natural to us is new and game changing. Who knows what will be different in 5 years time? I can’t wait.
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Effectiveness, not Efficiency
→: Effectiveness, not EfficiencySomeone once described me as “scarily efficient”. I have to say, I took it as a huge compliment. However after reading The 4-Hour Work Week (Tim Ferriss – Amazon) and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R Covey – Amazon) I’ve been focusing more on Effectiveness. There’s an important distinction. You can be…
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Seminar Presentation Abstract
→: Seminar Presentation AbstractI’m giving a presentation at Carleton for my Seminar course on October 30th. Title and abstract is below – slides coming soon! Title: Conversation 2.0: Twitter Abstract: The advent of Web 2.0 changed the internet. It went from an information medium to a communication medium. Recent developments have made that communication increasingly real-time. Services like…