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Why this is interesting right now: Armenian folkloric culture is being expressed digitally through a major brand name to a Russian audience across the web.Amsterdam Worldwide, an international commun ... - Lee Hopkins

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Just received my courtesy copy of the 2nd Australasian edition of Wood, Zefane, Fromholtz, Wiesner and Creed - Lee Hopkins

A great insight into how to protect your own posts and protect your links in an age where url shortening services are rampant. Nice one, Ike! - Lee Hopkins

Complete with video. Of course :-) - Lee Hopkins

Technorati are not dead as I thought - in fact, very much alive, just like the web! Says Jali Chandra, "Here's a couple of videos of me from last week's BlogWorld: the first is from Techcrunch's coverage of my 2009 State of the Blogosphere keynote (includes full speech including Q&A), and the second is the post keynote interview with WebProNews. Enjoy!" - Lee Hopkins

Background to Conroy's Clean Feed, which continues to generate a blogstorm of protest and the twitter hashtag @nocleanfeed (no clean feed). A truly bizarre idea that reflects its political ideology -- none of the child pornographers use the world wide web, they migrated to bittorrent years ago and buried their sick images in cryptographically-sealed 'innocent' images of beaches, buildings, people shopping, etc. Howard dropped it when he realised it was not workable, now Rudd has to have a go. Unfortunately, it is going to cost us a shedload of money at a time when we are already in massive debt, a debt we probably didn't need to have ("the debt we needed to have" hey, Trevor Cook? [grin] - a reference to the then Prime Minister Paul Keating's infamous quote that the recession was a recession we needed to have). - Lee Hopkins

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Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: A woman having large breasts makes men stupid."-- Rita Rudner via psychologytoday.com This ... - Lee Hopkins

via text-expander.com I was sent a copy of PhraseExpress for review and I have to say... well, I don't *have* to but I will anyway... I'm IMPRESSED! I wouldn't let it take over the auto ... - Lee Hopkins

Just a test of how posterous handles multiple pics in an email See and download the full gallery on posterous ... - Lee Hopkins

A full moon looms menacingly over BetterComm Towers ... - Lee Hopkins

Sunrise over North Adelaide and a pub (whose name I forget)Regards,LeeLee Hopkinsdirector of buzzone of Australia's most respected authorities on the implications and use of social media within the bu ... - Lee Hopkins

Just a test message to see how posterous handles some stuffRegards,Lee ... - Lee Hopkins

Google announced yesterday that it will soon be showing real-time results of public content from many sources, including Facebook fan pages. As reported by InsideFacebook and Mashable, this is a big deal. - Lee Hopkins

"Use this site to remove passwords and restrictions (such as printing, copying text, etc.) from PDFs. Note: This only works for PDFs that you can open and read without any 3rd party plugins. PDFs that require a password to be viewed cannot be unlocked by this service. YOU MAY NOT USE THIS SERVICE FOR ILLEGAL PURPOSES" - Lee Hopkins

"Use this site to remove passwords and restrictions (such as printing, copying text, etc.) from PDFs. Note: This only works for PDFs that you can open and read without any 3rd party plugins. PDFs that require a password to be viewed cannot be unlocked by this service. YOU MAY NOT USE THIS SERVICE FOR ILLEGAL PURPOSES" - Lee Hopkins

Again, says Michelle, "Wave asks you to input your contacts. What do you type in? Which email address? Well, it needs to be a signed-up user of Wave. It needs to contain their @googlewave address. Cause it's the new centre of the world, right? Ahem. So that's been the first stumbling block for some people: typing in other email addresses and desperately trying to find their networks. They've even been using gmail addresses, thinking that would work. But no cigar. Considering that a lot of new Wave users have just been sending Wave invites to friends (using their standard email addresses), it does get confusing. One little line of instruction there, or alt text, would help." - Lee Hopkins

Says Michelle, "What else would you talk about when you land on Wave but ... Wave? I'm in about 20 Waves now (posted discussions where lots of people contribute) and the main topic is How to Use This Darn Google Wave" - Lee Hopkins

OK.     “That it should come to this!”, as Billy Shakespeare once said [Hamlet, Act 1, Scene II]. A lot of people met at The Tivoli on Wednesday 2nd Dec, a few of whom were there to se... - Lee Hopkins

For days, department members had ignored emails from a colleague asking for their input on a business matter. This was no overt act of rebellion against the sender of the email. In fact, she was well-liked. Instead, the request got lost in the avalanche o... - Lee Hopkins

Great article looking at the 'infamous ROI question' and a different way of thinking about it. The punchline (below) only comes at the end of a lengthy but worth-reading article. "Moreover, every client has different goals which they measure internally against metrics that are usually confidential. Unless your clients are willing to share all of their internal data with you, true ROI for suppliers is a chimera." Hi-tech media mavens looking to enlarge their share of the advertising pie should look to billboards.. Deliver a good product, measure it the best you can and service your clients well. The world’s great marketers are perfectly capable of measuring their own ROI. - Lee Hopkins

Great video explaining how Twitter's new 'lists' feature works - Lee Hopkins

"So let’s take a look at some real world social media policies and guidelines as used by companies. Zappos does a great job of summing it up in seven words, but the detail is also important and there are some fine suggestions here..." #melcmelb - Lee Hopkins

TechCrunch reported today that Digital Garage, Twitter’s partner in Japan, is ready to roll out a new, Japan-only way to monetize the service. The way it’ll work is pretty simple: Japanese Twitter users will soon be able to charge their followers to view tweets – on a monthly basis or per single tweet. Otherwise they will only see excerpts or no text in the postings at all. Digital Garage gets a 30% cut. Not charging companies for holding accounts but having users pay to view tweets? What may sound like a bold move at first actually makes sense, as the web in Japan (where Paul is based) features a number of peculiarities that play into the hands of Digital Garage’s Japanese operations: e.g. Japan is the only market in the world where Twitter offers an official mobile client (launched last month). - Lee Hopkins

As you’ll see in the video, a client of the site's author wanted to have a YouTube video below the sidebars. The Thesis multimedia box can display images, widgets, custom code, video and pretty much whatever else you want. The amazing Thesis wordpress theme comes with one multimedia box, which in this case was already taken. No problem. The author embedded the video in a brand new multimedia box. Here’s how she did it… - Lee Hopkins

Here's just one of the five: "Microsoft’s Bing was the surprise hit of 2009, and has started to erode Google’s share of search. Bing has some social features, but expect some big news in social search in 2010. Facebook and Twitter both offer “interesting” ideas in social search, and both are sitting on top of mountains of social data, but both have taken an incidental approach to social search" - Lee Hopkins

So here, by tracking the most vital conversations about the business product/service, you get a better chance to identify the influential people in the niche, and to figure out the best way to work out on the flaws. Note – You must first make sure on what you have to track, as social media comprises various kinds of tracking. Set your goals, do you need to track on how people are sharing your blog/website/social networks? Whether you are interesting in tracking any specific social media message/campaign? Or, you just want to track the real-time buzz across the web and more like that. So, as the requirements are different, there are different social media tracking tools to be used. And to list out the most important, honeytechblog is sharing Top 10 Social Media Tracking Tools that you must try - Lee Hopkins

There is absolutely no right way to convert a digital photo to black and white. I have barely touch the surface in terms of how to and what kinds of software allow you to create a black and white photo. There are numerous plug-ins, methods, applications etc not mentioned here – but no one way is perfect. In the end, do what looks and works best for you and your photos. Enjoy - Lee Hopkins

Over the last month there has been an explosion in health related posts and presentations trying to determine the role that social and digital media will have in healthcare. Dr Ciaran Henry takes a closer look at social media implementation strategies in the healthcare workplace. - Lee Hopkins