Rob the Geek

Category: Social Networking

  • Trying Twimailer

    Edit 08 April 2009 – Twimailer has recently been sold, see here for my impressions as to why this may no longer be a safe service to use. After a weekend-worth of new followers of my Twitter stream, I’ve decided to try out Twimailer – a service I was made aware of last week by […]

  • Painting it Black

    You may have noticed a number of avatars turning black since the start of this week, this blackout is only a part of the actions planned during the recent FooCamp to draw attention to New Zealands impending copyright law changes. I’m going to use this post to bring some of the commentary on the subject […]

  • Expanding the mind

    I was discussing the consumption of information with a colleague this afternoon as he was telling me he, like I, has just started adding a bunch more RSS feeds to his reader in an effort to access different thinking above and beyond what we traditionally follow (i.e. dropping some of the IT specific feeds in […]

  • The Social Web at Work – Parachute 2009

    Parachute, a New Zealand Christian Music Festival held at Mystery Creek, Hamilton, New Zealand, has recently finished and, while our church had its share of musicians playing at the event, I started receiving a fair number of followers during and after the event – even without attending, or referring to it. It would appear that […]

  • Your Life on the Internet

    The following is a translation from an article published by French Magazine Le Tigre. It has been lovingly translated by one of my work colleagues (who happens to also be French, but now a New Zealand citizen, so he’s mostly okay 🙂 ). It just goes to show how much information we’re putting out there […]

  • The Geek *will* inherit the earth…

    My eye was caught this morning by an article referencing some research published mid-this month from UCLA. The article stated that “…this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy at the top of the new social order.” The geek will inherit the earth after all? This is tempered somewhat by the need to understand […]

  • Speaking at the UCB International ‘Online Media’ Forum

    Last week I was fortunate enough to be asked to present to a group of broadcasters at the UCB International On-line Media Forum. My topic was Digital Content, Communities and Conversations – specifically, I looked at the strategies and technology choices available to a new entrant into this space. 200810 Communities&Conversations View SlideShare presentation or […]

  • Barcamp Auckland 2 – Redux

    So, yesterday I attended Barcamp Auckland and as you could probably tell from my Twitter stream, I found it pretty interesting. The following is more a summation of the notes I took – interestingly enough, I found I was tweeting more than I was typing into my laptop so I’ve had to also check my […]

  • Getting my (Online) ‘Lifestream’ going…

    I’ve been using Twitter, Facebook, del.ico.us and friendfeed (and others) for quite some time now and, after reading this blog entry and clicking around Bwanas site a little, I found his lifestream page and decided to give it a go myself. Here’s how I did it (under WordPress)… First we need to grab two plugins, […]

  • Installing Ubuntu 8.04 on the ASUS EEE

    Okay, so I did a painless upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 LTS while it was still in pre-release, but now that I’ve been playing around with the system for awhile, it’s apparent that my needs are changing and the easiest way to cater to these needs is a full reinstall from scratch, putting in place […]