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The question of whether or not people of our time are resilient enough to deal with adversity like previous generations was a topic of discussion at one of the Girl Geek Dinner's last year. It reminded me to dig out these favourite quotations. "We are what we
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Here in a TED talk Susan Blackmore discusses how humanity has spawned a new kind of meme. She argues for the teme, which spreads itself via technology, and invents ways to keep itself alive. This is a very provocative argument and is worth a look. http://video.ted.com/assets/
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All those top 50 or top 100 Twitter user lists that enumerate the so-called Twitterati sort of annoy me. In fact, they annoy me so much that, a while back, I created Yet Another Twitter Top 100 List . How do you get on this list? You just add yourself and
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I've been a big fan of telling as many people as possible about my goals so it is harder for me to back out of them. Also getting people to join in with me is very helpful. It is encouraging when there is more than one person working
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When I first started to use Twitter there was a small and fairly tight knit group that I followed and who followed me back. It really felt like a community and there was a sense of intimacy. The feeling of intimacy was supported by meeting with a lot of these
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A long time ago I confessed to @SilkCharm that I did not get Twitter and was about to abandon it. But at her urging I persisted with the darn thing. Then quite quickly there were a whole bunch of people following me, and it became necessary to develop a set
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Funny how some things change and others don't. Back in the early part of 2008 stories of Twitter's demise were prevalent. I saved this Hitwise chart back in July 2008, which showed how UK traffic was trending upwards. From the perspective of 2009 we can see
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I don't often just reproduce a copy of someone else's blog entire post - but today I've made an exception for a good cause. My buddy @nickhodge has posted a heartfelt plea to people to upgrade from Internet Explorer version 6. It is reproduced
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This question came up as I was telling a buddy - Neerav - about this blog the other day. It made me realise that a working definition of frugal living might just come in handy. The inspiration for starting this blog was a desire to start living a more simple
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. I've been thinking about this quotation and tend to disagree with the great MLK on this
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In Sydney there is a regular Friday gathering of a group of people who are passionate about the Australian internet and technology community. These drinks go under a few names - Official Friday or Silicon Beach. Whatever it is called everybody is welcome! The current details are: * 5pm at the