May 2008
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Words and/or Moving Pictures
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Continue reading ...Scattering comment pixie-dust … my heroes
Image via Wikipedia Day 6 has dawned bright and oh so clear where I write. I’m a morning blogger and I have to say one of the things that gets my brain in gear for the day ahead is the ritual of good coffee with a look out over my valley and then some word-smithing
Continue reading ...Flickr Challenge Group open
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Continue reading ...Cinco de Mayo or Day 5 of the Comment Challenge
Now Cinco de Mayo is huge elsewhere, but it kind of passes us by down here in Australia, a bit the way Australia Day would in Mexico. There you go! However what does unite us globally on a daily … seemingly hourly basis what with television, Twitter, Facebook et al … are words and images,
Continue reading ...Comment Challenge goes Flickr
Interested in sending up a video comment on the challenge? Have some images or screenshots that capture the 31 days of this adventure. Look no further. A couple of fevered brains (aka Dogtrax and Dramagirl) have cooked up a Flickr Group to satisfy your cravings for moving and still images. Here’s a chance to try
Continue reading ...From little things, big things grow
Image by James Kirsop via Flickr I can’t get the lyrics or the tune of Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly‘s sweet and moving song out of my head. Why? Dr Kev Carmody, Australian singer-songwriter, raconteur and Aboriginal Australian activist was inducted as a Doctor of the University Honoris Causa at yesterday’s graduation ceremony for the
Continue reading ...Day 2: Comment08
Photo: Thanks Doug Miller And so to day 2 and visiting a previously-unvisited blog. Easy this one and a nice outcome. Several of my commenters are new to me, so it was a pleasure to visit all of their blogs and to leave a couple of comments and they commented back and hey ho, off
Continue reading ...Comment Self Audit:Comment08
Day 1 of the 31 Day Blog Comment Challenge is over in Australia from where I’m writing. I’ve picked up on the overnight posts which include the task for Day 1: A Comment Self-Audit. So … here we go Do I comment daily? Well … yes and no. I try to make it habitual to
Continue reading ...Day 1: Comment08
Interesting that this little video continues to get referenced. A year on and we’re still not all that ‘easy’ with video commenting. It seems that words rule whether they’re delimited by 140 characters (Twitter-ish) or given full rein in a blog post. Lots of reasons for this of course – the single most-cited is that
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Day 7 and my week’s worth
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