One of the recurring conversations I’ve seen come up over the last few months is Twitter overload, and how to most effectively cope with the tidal wave of updates that people receive from the contacts they’re following.  Without mechanisms in place to track specific people, and the contributions they make, it’s all too easy for their updates to be washed away in the ongoing deluge of discussion.
One thing I’ve just started experimenting with, which I’ve so far had very good results with, is the use of groups.  This isn’t a …

My experiences with both Seesmic and Twitter this morning have once again reinforced my overwhelmingly positive attitude towards the services – and in particular the enthusiastic and giving community of users that have embraced them.
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been plagued by an irritating computer issue in which use of apostrophes and double quotes was producing foreign language characters like é, ý, ç and í. For the life of me I just could not determine how to resolve it.
In what felt like a desperate ploy …

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This post outlines an idea for Seesmic in the classroom that I’ve had floating around in my head for months but have never taken the time to put down on paper.
Seesmic is a discussion tool that functions in much the same way as standard text-based forums, with the key difference being the content and user contributions are all video based – it is a video discussion tool.
The tool provides each user with …

Consider the implications…

What’s in a talking head?
More and more people are turning to the internet to distribute their thoughts on video, slideshows and presentations. Much of what is presented features visual elements such as diagrams, photographs, artwork, or PowerPoint slides that expand on the concepts being discussed in an incorporated audio track and enable the presenter to add more depth to the subject matter.
Another element that is used in video is what is known as the talking head, which quite simply is someone talking to camera. A survey …