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Written on 30-Jul-2007 by
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Because I'm an idiot I packed for Istanbul about ten minutes before getting into the car for the airport. I'm pretty good at this by now and as long as I have a laptop and an Internet connection when I travel I'm usually set. Seeing as the fuckwits at AirFrance managed to lose my luggage I'm glad I travel light, but this trip I forgot to load up the laptop properly . This meant that I only had a couple of movies with me and just enough music to get me through a long weekend. What if the terrorists strapped bombs to the UK and pushed it into the side of America while I was away?
My rule normally when travelling is to take enough digital media with me so that I can survive away from home indefinitely. It all worked out in the end. Despite parts of the country flooding while I was away, London survived and I picked up another copy of A Bittersweet Life while I was out there. Some people buy carpets in Istanbul - I buy cool-as-ice Korean revenge movies. This was a nice movie to fly back on as it counterbalanced watching Alain Delon in Un flic on the way out.
All of this is a long winded build up to the fact that this week I bought a new hard drive. This one.
and we write and write and write...
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Written on 29-Jul-2007 by
sizemore
Check out Neal's interview with Cecil Castellucci over on the rabbit + crow blog:
I could never understand why someone who didn't know me, the IRA, would want to harm me. And I couldn't understand why someone would do something so ugly. And I struggle to find beauty in everyone and everywhere because of it.
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Written on 29-Jul-2007 by
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After giving it a lot of thought I decided to bring my other blog under this roof.
Running two blogs (alongside all the other stuff I'm doing) meant that both were suffering. Plus it's been made clear to me that I can't keep 'work' separate from all the other crap I get up to because a lot of the time it's the 'other crap' that finds me work. I'm lucky that way.
So if you're already here stay put. Or better still add this RSS feed to your reader as the content is about to increase rapidly. I'm rolling the shutters down on VMII, but I'm hoping this will be my last move for a while.
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Written on 19-Jul-2007 by
sizemore
Look what my friend Irina has done now:
Dontcha Wish Your Cell Phone Was Hot Like Me?
Now I'm going to be late for my flight :)
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Earn a living from your blog and get laid too!
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Written on 16-Jul-2007 by
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Do you subscribe to a lot of blogs that aim to make you a better blogger? A lot of them give up such blog industry secrets as use a bold font to make a word stand out. Or reveal insider blog knowledge such as a catchy headline is better than a non-catchy headline. If you know the kind of blog I'm talking about then please head over to Rob's:
Blogs as self-perpetuating shit farms?Personally I'd have left the question mark off.
Screw the bigger boat
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Written on 15-Jul-2007 by
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I'm certainly still paddling in the bloody red ocean:
Satoru Iwata gleefully tells The Times that he is swimming in a clear sea teeming with women, pensioners and repentant couch potatoes... he is explaining his belief in the "Blue Ocean" theory of business, which says that to succeed you must reach markets (blue oceans) that are free from competitors. Venturing into "bloody red oceans", where packs of rivals fight tooth and nail, can only lead to failure. The central premise – that it is best to zig when others zag – sums Mr Iwata up perfectly.via
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Grasshoppers
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Written on 15-Jul-2007 by
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I'm still stumbling my way around Facebook and learning mainly by taste. Being added as a vampire, zombie or STD is plain annoying so there'll be less of that. Watching how smart people use Facebook seems to be the way to go. Take Chris Brogan's Grasshopper group, for example:
Facebook isn’t just a school toy or “yet another social network.” From what I’m learning, it’s a pretty useful system that can be used very effectively to build a very vibrant network, provide excellent tools (especially with lots of good 3rd party apps), and then provide you the chance to use it to DO SOMETHING. I believe that Grasshoppers is a great way to prove this. Join the group. Determine what we’re doing and how you can apply yourself to it. And then dig in. Turn social networking into action.Thats a jawdropping idea. Especially seeing as so many people seem to use it for nothing more powerful than sharing photos of old school friends ie. a dusty box best left under your fucking bed. PS
Hearting Skitch
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Written on 11-Jul-2007 by
sizemore
The best thing about moving over to a Mac so far has been Skitch. It's not just a pleasure to use it's fun. Here it is in action on my desktop:
Do anything to him
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Written on 11-Jul-2007 by
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This has highly amused just about everyone who knows me for the last few days:
I have a Webjam and I'm not afraid to use it...
Hi. I’m Mike Atherton. I do a bunch of things, but first and foremost I'm a writer. This page is my portal to the rest of the interweb, and also a working example of the first element of a comprehensive personal network - or webjam.
You can learn more about webjamming here. I'm an editor and manager for the Webjam community, or in Web 2.0 speak, an evangelist. If you have any questions regarding the site please feel free to get in touch. My email address is mikesizemore[at]gmail[dot]com.
If you want to know more about what I do here then Visible Monsters III is a good place to start.
Aside from Webjam you can find me in a couple of other places online:
- Visible Monsters II - This is my blog. Five years old and still without direction.
- Londonist - I recently stepped down as editor, but still keep a hand in.
- Flickr - The place to look if you are curious as to just how pretty my friends are.
- Del.icio.us - Where I keep all my public bookmarks, but moving to Blinklist soon.
- Twitter - Because I caught the bug hard and need to let you know what I'm doing.
- Solace in Cinema: Where I blog about film from time to time.
This is a semi-static page so things here will change from time to time. Feel free to come back anytime or stalk me using any of the above links. More importantly, please let me know what YOU are doing with Webjam. I'll try my best to keep on top of all the various communities that make a home here, but don't be scared about dropping me a line to remind me to check out what you are up to.
Happy Jammin'
Mike Atherton ~ Webjam Evangelist ~ last updated May 2007
Buy the ticket, take the ride
It is always bad business to try to
explain yourself on paper – at least not all at once – but when you
work as a journalist and sign your name in black ink on white paper
above everything you write, that is the business you’re in, good or bad. Buy the ticket, take the ride. I have said that before and I have found, to my horror, that it’s true. It
is one of those half-bright axioms that can haunt you for the rest of
your life – like the famous line Joe Louis uttered on the eve of his
fight with Billy Conn: He can run, but he can’t hide.”
That is a thing you want to remember if you work in either journalism or politics – or both, like
I do – and there is no way to duck it. You will be flogged for being
right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways – but it
doesn’t hurt as much when you’re right.
-- Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine.
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