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[aka Dave the Lifekludger]

May 13, 2012

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-13

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July 24, 2011

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April 11, 2010

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February 19, 2010

tuneglue

Filed under: Everday,Music — dnw @ 6:37 pm


tuneglue

Originally uploaded by dnwallace

So, I thought I’d checkout Son Volt [http://www.sonvolt.net/] after I started with Drive by Truckers and found out that via Two Cow Garage and The Bottle Rockets, that Son Volt was a common link between The BottleRockets and Drive by Truckers.

I figured as I like DBT that, even though I’d never, ever heard of any of these groups, a cross-link back to them oughtta be worth something.

I quite like thesound of Son Volt. I see why there was a link there.

I guess that’s how tuneglue works.

Tuneglue
via Lifehacker

Dave

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August 9, 2009

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-09

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June 2, 2007

Back on the air after 48 hours

Filed under: Connection,Everday — dnw @ 7:54 pm

I don’t believe it.

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Mark of the beast?

I’m actually back connected to the outside world after over 48 hours of two of my phone lines being out of order – one of them my ADSL connection.

I felt helpless as I rang Telstra again and again with them saying that its a ‘major fault” (no shit sherlock!) that had taken over 200 services out with it.

Geez. Realise just how much of what I do depends on net connection.

I managed to keep an eye on services at work through my 3G phone, at times connecting via BT on Mac out through it, but doing that too long would get very expensive very quickly so kept it to a minimum.

Along with thinking about contingency plans for your online identity, best think about your connections if a lot of what you do resides in the cloud.

Well, there went my plans of upgrading this blog to WP 2 today.

Dave

May 25, 2007

Facebook and Myspace – buckets of lemmings?

Filed under: Blogging,Thoughts — dnw @ 6:16 pm

Kent asks a genuine question on his blog about the popularity of things like Facebook and Myspace.

What is so much better about Facebook (and MySpace and other similar platforms) than an ordinary blog on a popular platform- say WordPress?

Maybe it’s just that the likes of Facebook, Myspace are seen as a ‘place’ to go, a ‘place’ to belong, to identify with, whereas blogs are seen as distributed individual spaces.

I wrote something about my own experiences of that phenomenon back here – neo community.

It’s easier to forge cross connections (technologically and socially) in a place where everyone is in the same bucket. Much of the connecting is done by the blog bucket machine. With individual blog platforms it’s more on the individual to form them. Who was it that said ‘freedom is hard’.

I remember hearing something in a youth leadership meeting that the question “who’s gonna be there” is more important than “what will we do there?”

Maybe that’s true no matter what age we are.

Well, to some.

Maybe some for whom freedom is too hard.

Maybe it’s just that the pull to belong is stronger than we realise and we’ll put up with anything to get it.

Dave

PS: I think the ‘freedom is hard’ bit came from a statement about a book on the state of Iraq.

[tags]facebook, myspace, kent newsome, blogging, social, belonging, freedom[/tags]

May 17, 2007

My blog promotion advice for Ali in Kenya

Filed under: Blogging,Connection — dnw @ 9:32 pm

Update: Tools and more tips here and here.

Well, I got a signal in the ether from Beth Kanter about Alison Lowndes asking how Ali could best promote the AVIF Volunteers blog to get the message out about her work with children in Kenya.

I’m no A-list blogger but have been pleased about connections my blogging has afforded me. Here’s my tips, for what they’re worth.

I can summarise them as the Four Ps

  • Participate
  • Plug-in
  • Play
  • Persist

.Participate
This could be called partake but participate is more fitting because it’s about giving. The first thing I think that anyone seeking in getting something because of blogging is to give to it. Notice I said ‘because’…that’s due to the fact that blogging is about giving, contributing…the fruit of your blogging comes because you share. (due kudos to Doc Searls’ because effect)

Get a reader and read, read, read what others write. Of course you’ll read what interests you, but read widely, assimilate the wisdom of others into your endeavours. Get rss working for you. Set up some searches on keywords about your interests and put the rss in your reader. As you get more advanced, get smart in your reading with filtering using something like Yahoo pipes.

Give your eyeballs to others and you’ll receive eyeballs.

.Plug-in
This is about immersing yourself and your blog in the culture. It’s about making connections.

Connections happen when stories overlap. So share your story openly and find other’s stories that overlap yours. The power of blogs is in their ability to connect and links are the wiring of the connection. So link, a lot. Link to people’s blogs or sites as you speak about them, give them due credit. Use trackbacks. Quotes. Provide a context in why you are using the link.

Be part of the blogging community (network). Look for stories and comment on them. Keep track of your comments. Always answer any comments you may get on your blog or anybody responding to comments you leave. Always respond to email enquiries you get from your blogging.

Better still, write a blog post rather than a comment if it’s a long comment about the article and put it in your context. Look for and write about similarities/differences etc – make sure to link to the post.

Have a consistent sign-off and name you use on comments. Try and make it unique. Build familiarity with that name. Track it with searches plugged into your rss reader.

To promote your blog, promote others.

.Play
Blogging should be enjoyable. This is a creative, digital medium, not a newspaper. The same rules don’t apply. Play with digital tools and toys.

Do mashups and blog about them. Snip bits of audio out you hear that’s relevant and put them on your blog and write about them. Snip up audio and video to convey a point or feeling. If you get an inkling of an idea, pursue it.

Follow your heart and others will too.

.Persevere
This is a building process that happens over time (unless you are a celebrity…don’t get me started)

Above all else, just keep going. Perseverance is 90% of success.

To help, set yourself short term, achievable goals. Like read x posts per week. Post x times in a given time you determine. But in the end, don’t beat yourself up about it if you don’t meet them. Remember point 3!

Know that what you write and give and contribute will last. Notwithstanding any catastrophe, what you write, create will be here indefinitely. There’s something about longevity and the possibilities and opportunities it can bring into the future by its permanence.

Track records bring rewards.

Dave

April 3, 2007

stories connect

Filed under: Signal,Thoughts — dnw @ 9:34 am

Dear Mr Hodge (Uncle).

Connections happen when stories overlap.

Need to build a way to overlap the geek_dots in the geek_stories.

Dave (Uncle)

PS: I wanted to leave this as a comment on this post on on10.net but do I really gotta sign up for yet another account on another silo?

February 13, 2007

Share Overlap Connect

Filed under: Blogging,Openness,People,Signal — dnw @ 10:18 am

Well it seems too much is happenning in my life at present. Which annoys me. It annoys me because I desire connection and in the world of connection sharing is key….another word I spin on that sharing meme is openness.

But it takes time to share. And right now I don’t have time to share. So I’m making time to share a little bit, show the overlap and the connections from that.

Mike, my mate, brother in munge and podcast co-host is in Sydney at the Unlimited Potential conference where Hugo is who is also a mate and was the first guest on said podcast. Hugo leant me a Tablet to review after hooking up with him on a podcast on TPN, a hookup which Mike is going to play the audio of . I see Mike is thinking of a UMPC which reminds me. Hugo, isn’t it time a UMPC got a Lifekludger going-over? Meanwhile Beth Worrall, a friend of Mikes, appeared on her first podcast and gives the shoutout to Mike and I.

Remember…connections happen when stories overlap!
Stories need to be shared for the overlap to occur.
Share or die!

Dave

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