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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,

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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

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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

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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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Another 31-Day Challenge!

Image: Thanks Stephen Downes Last August, and along with a smallish but hardy group of bloggers, I took the 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge, led by the energetic and insightful Michele Martin of the Bamboo Project. As I’ve written elsewhere, this was a seminal event in my development as a blogger. (Use the

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