Tag: flickr

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…
Sharing documents and profiles

Jul 11, 2009

in Social media

abstract, facebook, flickr, mendeley, publishing, research, scribd, slideshare, twitter

I’ve been meaning to play around with Scribd for a while now but never felt I had anything useful to put up. After uploading some conference presentations on Slideshare a week ago and seeing the steadily climbing views, I finally decided to get a few abstracts together and upload them publicly. You can see them…
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…
KDE 4.3 is awesome

Jun 21, 2009

in Technology

akkregator, amarok, audacious, basket, decent podcast catcher, default file manager, desktop, digikam, dolphin, Dolphin file manager, Firefox, flickr, folder view, gnome, Google, Google Earth, google maps, gpodder, GUI, gwenview, jaunty, kde, koffice2, konqueror, kontact, kubuntu, lancelot, light-weight player, marble, media player, media players, MS, ms word, nepomuk, okular, open streetmap, opendocument, openoffice, OpenOffice.org word processor, pdf, podcast, qt4, semantic, semantic search, semnotes, songbird, spicebird, thunderbird, web browser, widgets, wikipedia, word processor

It’s been a busy few weeks at the university, with mid-year assessment (in all it’s various forms) having to take precedence over everything else. Now that it’s over and students are on holiday, I’ve finally gotten around to doing the things I’ve been putting off for a while…like installing the beta version of KDE 4.3…

Tag: flickr

Is blogging the “new” lifestream?

Sharing documents and profiles

Faculty writing workshop

KDE 4.3 is awesome