Only one real hurdle remains, how do I kitten proof the gap(s) down the side of my fridge? The one on the right is big enough for a kitty to get round to the back (when small)… I can’t block it completely as it needs to get some air to the back of the fridge.
Ideas?
Er, I dunno but I always liked that track and its friday so that’ll do!
1) So, in an odd twist to the day, I was live on ustream.tv earlier Djing… it was kinda funny, it was a test broadcast for Ross EB live from Toko/Suki on saturday but it got bounced around the interwebs and we actually had quite a few viewers! He’s only round the corner and we had it on the office… next thing you know, look mum, I’m on telly!
2) In other online video news:
thanks to Alex
3) And another… Slinky Silent Disco Flashmob – Bournemouth Square 2pm – where white, bring music for your own ears and rave away! (sign up for news of other flashmobs in Bournemouth) – which is being filmed
AND
4) I’m playing for Jellys Last Jam’s 1st Birthday on saturday (free entry in fancy dress – go crazy theme) and yep… you guessed it… its being filmed for issTV.
So. In summary… TV TV kittens TV TV. 🙂
Word on the street is I’m the next brad pitt… either him or McLovin! hahaha
Read MoreLast weeks startup meetup was very interesting,we discussed the idea of having some form of startup contest – see Mark Ng’s write up on the contest idea here
In a rough summary:
Incubator idea – full time commitment / funded / fixed end date to contest (3 months?) / launch day where ideas/teams are founded
part time contest – part time teams / sponsored / fixed end date / launch day where teams can find missing members
or some combo of the two, perhaps a launch day where teams could pitch to be in the incubator and then a free for all for any other p/t teams who wanted to compete for the main prize… whatever that was.
Personally, I’m split on the idea… I totally see the commitment side that Mark argues for.. I also think a p/t contest has merits.
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Highly amused today to get a parcel for “Custard c/o Luke Williams…” – thanks mum 🙂
Am I that annoying person who just posts pictures of their cat/babies?? Oh well
Qwitter sends you an email when someone stops following you and says what the last message was that you sent.
Aside from the fact I’m not 100% sure that services like this are a good idea – I’ll save that debate for Sean Bonners post which covers some of what I’d of said – twitter is best when not used like a social network, if i stop following you, its not because we’re not “friends” any more, it could be for any number of reasons, I frequently follow and un-follow people, although I’m increasingly using tweetdeck’s grouping feature to just follow everyone – more on that another day.
I was interested to trial Qwitter as a means of seeing why followers go up and down, I had some theories I wanted to test.
The first major thing i found is that the emails you get from Qwitter come in groups, now either I keep tweeting things that make people stop following me in groups… or its grouping the qwitters together. Judging by the tweets that people stopped following me on, its almost certainly the latter.
The second was that some user accounts were adding and removing me more than once, the majority of these were spam-like accounts, I guess hoping for an auto-follow.
There were a couple of non-spam-like accounts doing it, this was curious, the only explanation i can have is that it keeps them near the top of my followers list – meaning new users who thought “ah, I wonder who else of interest I might find on Luke’s followers list” would more likely see them.
Its vaguely useful to know who has stopped following you, as long as you remember that its not personal and that the qwitter alerts most likely aren’t on the right tweet.
Last weekend, I went to my first BarCamp – BarCamp Bournemouth – a “self organising un-conference”.
If you’ve never been to one, you should go. I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect, I new the history of how they’d started and I had a rough idea what went on… I’m pleased to report it exceeded my expectations.
For those of you who too lazy to click on the wikipedia entry above, in essence its an event where anyone (and everyone is encouraged to do so) can give a talk about pretty much anything. There’s a white board with slots on it for people to write in what talk they’d like to give/discussion they’d like to host.
from Flickr stream (Andy Trickett)
Some of the highlights for me:
Two Guys a smart car and a bagel – which can only be described by “the hodge” himself, go read it.
The crowdsourced haircut – donate £5 to The Dyslexia Research Trust and take a snip at his hair. Erm… ok.
DigitalDeath – this one was a real though provoker, what happens to accounts after people die, does their content get deleted, should it be kept? Do you have a digital will? We also touched on whats happens when people go “off-grid”.
Other talks I attended (some lightning talks) were on Geocaching, how to make a pulse jet engine, “developer vs designers, why can’t we all get along” (by @adrianh) – from the downright geeky (life defined in two lines of APLÂ code) to the philosophical (A proof that there is only one true fact).
I really loved the talk about the ridiculous diagrams people have developed for Social Media (@socialmediatwat) – it’s so true.
It was really good to hear a developer rip into “social media practitioners” using their own worst examples – I’m always concious that what I do doesn’t get drowned in marketing drivel and buzzwords – so it was really good to get some reinforcement that what’s important is true engagement, it IS sad that some marketeers and agencies need telling that its just conversations online – I think what he missed though is that some people NEED to be shown this stuff, they’re not native to the internet and what they’ve seen before is push push push perhaps.
Where possible, I check content avoids the LGA banned word list – I’d suggest you read this list.
Next time you see a BarCamp near you, go.
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