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Entries from August 2007

World Kite Record

August 18th, 2007 · No Comments

UPDATE:
According to local news:
The first attempt saw 1014 kites in the air, a new unofficial world record. However, the second attempt saw the number rise to 1127.
Documentation of the event including photos and videos will now be sent to the Guinness Book of Records to have the record verified.

World Kite Record
Originally uploaded by MikeBlogs
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Philip - your CRM strategy has been inverted

August 15th, 2007 · No Comments

If you are the founder of an interesting business trying to grapple with the effect of new media on your ‘Customer Relationship Management’ strategy - AND - you are reading this in an RSS aggregator (as part of a ‘vanity search’), then welcome to the upside down world of ‘Vendor Relationship Management’ or VRM.
You see, [...]

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Tags: cluetrain

I wish I had said that (about walled gardens)

August 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Walled garden
Originally uploaded by recursion_see_recursion
I wish I had said what Dave said in his blog:
In fact, I think I did in our latest mind-numbingly long (2hrs) podcast.
As always, Dave has has his mouth-stick on the pulse, draws conclusions from my rambling, inarticulate descriptions of fuzzy patterns, then manages to find and join even [...]

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Virtual TechEd (Australia) Hilights

August 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Flickr pix.
Frank’s directory of TechEd bloggers.
SCOOP: Microsoft announces new language support for LOLCODE.  (LOLCHAIR support rumored to be coming soon - http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/LOLCHAIR [explore at your own risk])
Plus some twitter tweets I have decided not to publish.

technorati tags:teched07

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First Podcasts from danah boyd in Brisvegas for education.au

August 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Ladies and gentlemen,
It is with ‘grape leisure’ I point you to the first podcasts from danah in Brisbane. Check em out - she is great. If you can get to Melbourne by tomorrow (Weds 8th) it will only cost three hundred bucks to be part of an excellent and important event - who [...]

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