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How to move from iTunes to Songbird and still keep your library

May 2nd, 2009

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I tried Songbird back when it was still in beta, it was back in 2007. I remember being pretty excited about having an iTunes like media player for Ubuntu Linux, but as it turned out, it was pretty buggy and the iPod add-on wasn’t very good. I have been watching the roadmap closely ever since and as it seems now, It’s only one release away from being perfect for me. So, I decided to give it another go and went ahead and installed it.

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New powerful filters in the new beta Friendfeed

April 6th, 2009

The new beta design of Friendfeed adds some really nice advanced filters. I’m really excited about the addition of ‘popularity filters’ as I call them. They allow you to search for conversations or posts, that have received x number of likes or comments.

Just imagine how you can put this to use in your own field. You can search everybody’s posts (or just your friends’) for keywords, and filter them in terms of popularity. You have a unique ability to catch content way before it makes it to the mainstream online media.

Full res. on flickr.

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Simple guide to maintaining your reputation online

March 27th, 2009

Just came across this brilliant flowchart made by Michael Grimes. A simple outline of how you should approach the task, of responding to good or bad information posted about you online.

As Gavin Wray says in the comments on Michael’s post:

“Thanks for making this guide. You make clear sense out of what can seem a daunting task.”

You see it time and time again. Organisations showing terrible timing and understanding, responding to bad feedback by alienating people and ignoring the community.

If you can answer these questions by a yes or no, you have come a long way in your aproach to bad feedback. The golden nugget being: listen first, then react.

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A Crash Course in Linking

March 23rd, 2009

I gave a quick presentation for the reporters of Birmingham Recycled today, highlighting the importance of linking.

Doing a presentation on something like this might seem like overkill. But the more I prepared for this presentation, the more I realised how important this actually is.

It might just be me, but I’m struggling to understand why so many mainstream news papers still don’t link to their sources. I see it day after day, newspapers ripping off twitter messages and giving no credit what so ever. I’m just thinking, who would ever want to work with an institution who consistently pass on other people’s work as their own?

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My Panel at WXWM

March 11th, 2009

I have volunteered to host a Panel at the WxWM which is the West MIdlands equivalent to SxSWi. The ideas is pretty good indeed, a selection of people volunteer to host a panel of 5 minutes about anything they like, as long as it’s related to the Internet or social media. Here’s what Shona says about the panels:

You might want to talk about your latest online project to gain the wisdom of others’ perspectives or share things you’ve learnt along the way. Maybe you’d like to provide your top ten favourite memes on teh internetz, challenge perceptions of a particular form of social media, demonstrate where an online presence works well or just spend 5 minutes educating the room about the most famous cats in cyberspace. This really is open to you – we want the event to have the capacity to be both serious and fun.

Except that I’m going to ‘pimp’ BirminghamRecycled.co.uk, I haven’t exactly decided what to talk about. – But I have come up with an incomplete list.

  • Social media: a professional tool or personal pleasure?
  • Journalist vs. Blogger is there a difference.
  • Teaching social media – It’s not a monologue.
  • News as a platform/conversation.
  • Is it News or merely aggregation?

I will have to submit my idea to Shona before lunch time tomorrow. Will post when I have more details.

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