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by DarrenI’ve often toyed with the idea of making every blog post a song title, or pun on a song title. But given the quality of the one above I think I’ll leave that idea… for now.
Realised when I posted below that I hadn’t listed my seven things for the past week that I am thankful for. So for one week only, they will get their very own post.
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by DarrenWell, although the X sounded cool, it is much nicer to be referred to as Generation A. So the new book by Douglas Coupland will be added to my reading list. Can he weave the magic with this sequel as he did with Generation X? I’ll let you know, or you can read it and let me know.
mood: excited
This post is in: Inspiration
and tagged: books
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by DarrenLifestreaming is one of the hot topics on the net at the moment. As social media sites vie for your retention, you’ll find your online activity scattered over the digital ether. Many sites now offer the option to cross post and this can help us pull more of our online activity together, or at least make it available to other networks. In reality I am finding that it adds more confusion to things. Enter lifestreaming.
Lifestreaming broadly looks at ways of pulling or aggregating all his digital content in some way, or at least allowing the user to see all that they doing digitally.
I have been trying to organise everything I have online and so I have jumped on the lifestream bandwagon. I am currently trying to pull everything together and see what and where I am online. With this in mind I have been really impressed by some of the simple visual illustrations available to show lifestreaming in action.
Such as:
So I thought I’d sit and try and visualize my lifestream. The result was, as I had feared, a little confusing. But it wasn’t supposed to be a work of art, more a work in progress. Here it is in all its scanned glory.
As soon as I saw this I thought I could sort a few things out.
So, the basics have been put on paper and the next step is to make it a little clearer. However, just being able to see this has helped.
This post is in: Lifestreams
and tagged: lifestreaming
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by DarrenThe wonder of facebook (no really it is a wonder) is to see what your friends and contacts are doing and recommending. Then you can either join in or ignore. I call it viral social media, or VSM (let’s see if that catches on 
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One thing that has really picked up is the signing of petitions on the causes app. I don’t think there is anything wrong with putting your name to a cause, although how much effect one on facebook has is debateable.
I am a little concerned with the one below:
Causes on Facebook | PETITION! Stop Baby Peter’s So Called Parents Getting New Identities!!
While the two people in question are without doubt totally unsound, I am unsure how treating them to the same cruelty Baby P was put under achieves anything. It won’t bring back Baby P and it won’t teach any lesson. The only thing it would do is show that as a society we can be equally cruel and sadistic.
It is about time we took some responsibility and accepted that our society is as much to blame for these events; that means us. Let’s change things; not pass on the disease!
Okay, rant over. This week’s things to be thankful for:
This post is in: Personal, Proverbs?
and tagged: facebook, petitions
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by DarrenI’ve recently become interested in the topic of lifestreaming. I say recently, what I mean is that I found a word to describe what I have been trying to do; bring my digital life into some sort of convergence.
There are a few really good blogs and sites around that are discussing lifestreaming. And a recent post got me thinking. Not simply because it was good, but because it used a metaphor, lifestream as a city, that I was thinking of using to present my lifestream. A link to the post is at the bottom.
I like the city metaphor, well I like metaphors period.
One issue I have with my current thinking on lifestreaming is the archive. In Jessica’s metaphor data is a river that flows through the city. As the data is collected it is posted on our ‘lifestreams’.
Current methods of displaying data focus on new and freshly published data. I am searching for a way to display both the current / latest and the archived / past available.
There are two methods that I can think of to address this, but both, for me have issues.
This whole area is exciting and you’ll find plenty of links if you’re interested in finding out more by following the one below.
Lifestream as a City Metaphor | Lifestream Blog
This post is in: Lifestreams
and tagged: life stream, lifestreaming
