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Tag: delicious

Is blogging the “new” lifestream?

Sep 6, 2009

in Social media

blogging, delicious, facebook, flickr, Flickr stream, friendfeed, lifestream, online properties, scribd, slideshare, twitter

A little while ago I was wondering what platform I could use to aggregate my various online properties (Flickr, Delicious, Twitter, etc.) in a so-called “lifestream” and someone suggested that Friendfeed might be feasible. I looked into it for a while, but couldn’t commit to it because something didn’t feel right about using one service…
Faculty writing workshop

Jul 10, 2009

in Photography, Research, Social media

abstract, academic writing, communication technology, delicious, digg, facebook, flickr, Houwhoek Inn, journal editor, physiotherapy, publish, research, social software, social software tools, south africa, twitter, wikipedia, youtube

I just got back from an academic writing workshop at the Houwhoek Inn (their site needs some serious work). The point was to go there with an idea of an article you were going to write, spend 3 days writing it and getting feedback from the other participants and to end up with a draft…