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Daily Mail gets the Knox appeal verdict wrong
The Daily staffer that published the wrong story is going to be in trouble… (click images to enlarge) Failblog, if you want to appropriate these photos, ask this time. Thanks … Read entire article »
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FiiO E5 headphone amplifier
I was a lucky chap with my old netbook. The Asus EEE 901 had a smashing soundcard and a good turn of volume. It made listening to music streamed over our network or via Spotify a pleasure as I didn’t have to crank the volume right up. Sadly the touchpad buttons went after a couple of years of hard use, so when Expansys did an offer on a newer EEE, this time the 1215, for … Read entire article »
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Into the Dragon- Bomb the Base
“There have been mixes and dance tracks put together in the past but none have the power to outrun or equal the Megablast!” I was 13 years old when I heard those immortal words uttered for the first time and coming back to the album they originated from after what must be a good 15 years, what strikes me is how well it’s aged. Tim Westwood still sounds as hilariously naff as he always did on … Read entire article »
Filed under: Music
Triberr- initial thoughts
Twitter is currently buzzing with discussion of a new social media marketing tool called Triberr. Triberr describes itself as “the reach multipler” and goes on to say that it allows bloggers who tweet their posts to reach much larger audiences without spending 6-12 months building up their SEO. What this means in practice is your blog posts get tweeted by all the members in your group (Triberr call this group a Tribe)over the course of the day it’s originally posted. Triberr takes the details from your blogs RSS feed, so it’s not dependent on a tweet from you originally advertising the post. It spaces out the posting of tweets too, so you wont find ten plugs for your blog post all happening at once. You can see from the example below how a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Technology
A chance sadly missed
In my other role, as a parent blogger, I was recently contacted by an agency working with a big name TV presenter who was working on the relaunch of a big name internet sites video channel. An online series about parenting was being made, they had a load of Mums to talk to but wanted a Dad, would I be interested? Well of course the answer was yes but in the end the logistics proved too … Read entire article »
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