Archive for 'Pop Culture'
The history of the internet
Found this online today and enjoyed it. Most info-graphics tend to be rather selective in terms of the highlights depicted. This one is good and strikes the balance well IMHO. Via: MBA Online
Posted: August 22nd, 2010 under Computing, IT, Internet, Pop Culture, Viral.
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Social Media Revolution
I’ve seen this clip presented at two separate presentations that I’ve attended over the last week so I thought I’d share it with you. Nothing really new about what’s covered in it for me but for those who do not understand or appreciate the shift going on it’s an eye opener.
Posted: July 17th, 2010 under Computing, Daily Life, Marketing, Pop Culture, Social Networks, Viral.
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Star Wars vs. Star Trek
This is cool. Check out this great clip from Bill Parker using special effects software available to the ‘home enthusiast’. For a full write up of this viral video and the changing landscape of special effects check out the NZ Herald online article by Manuel Valdes.
Posted: March 2nd, 2010 under Computing, Pop Culture, Viral.
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Blogging
“I’ve been rather quiet here lately” is something I tend to read quite a bit when I read other folks blogs and bugger me if I’m doing it too Work is spent all day in front of a screen building new web pages while my after hours spare time seems to be taken up by [...]
Posted: February 26th, 2010 under Daily Life, Pop Culture, Website.
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Tron
OK I’m showing my age but I found this on YouTube today and had an ‘oh wow’ moment. I can recall watching this movie as a kid and thinking at the time it was actually going to happen one day. Well I was wrong (as far as I know) but the fact that such a [...]
Posted: December 20th, 2009 under Computing, Pop Culture, Television.
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Iphone first steps
I’ve been using my iPhone for just on one day and so far the experience has been largely a positive one. The only major hassle on day one was unlocking the phone via iTunes. The problem being finding the right drivers for windows 7 64 bit so it could recognize the hardware. After loading a [...]
Posted: November 21st, 2009 under Computing, Daily Life, IT, Pop Culture.
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MySource Matrix
This is the name of the new content management software I’ve been playing around with at work for the past few weeks. It’s great and well worth a play if you have the time and tech to support it. There are a number of nice websites built using this kit including Radio New Zealand and [...]
Posted: November 11th, 2009 under Computing, Library IT, Marketing, MySource Matrix, Pop Culture, Website.
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