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Addictomatic:

This is pretty cool:

Addictomatic is an aggregator of a bunch of essential, live, Web 2.0 feeds.

An ego-searchers tool de jour.

(And I should know about ego-searches.)

Thanks to my pal Rob, at Rakino in NZ for the heads up.

Coffee Morn 020508:

Flickr set here:

This post will have to be dashed off I'm afraid, meeting in 30 mins, but just wanted to post about a couple of highlights this morn.

Jon, is working on a belting Social media project for the rsno.

It involves, Hip-Hop, (whatever that is), Elvis Costello, (I've heard of him), and Video Gaming music. (Ah, now I'm on more familiar territory, Gaming; like Tetris and Pong, and Trivial Pursuits in CD presumably. Who says you can't teach a old dog new tricks.)

Anyhow, more on this on later posts as it unfolds from Jon.

The other highlight of the morning, apart for Jamie's new Mac, was meeting Sarah and Chris from Edinburgh based PR agency, Hot Tin Roof.

To the best of my dodgy memory the first PR people who've been to a Coffee Morn.

Which says a lot of good things about them in my book, and of course reflects somewhat negatively on all other PR agencies who might beneirt for tapping into what Coffee Morn offers them. But can't be bothered come, or worse don't even know what's going on in Social Media in Edinburgh.

But let's not get me going on that one eh?

I'm sure I'll be writing more about HTR soon.

(Let's hope I don't get all dyslexic though and start writing about HRT instead.)

Love something? Hate something?:

I came across this in Jeff Jarvis' essential daily feed today.

Twistori is a new Twitter tool from those wonderful folks who brought you WeFeelFine, the site exploring global human emotion via keywords in blog posts.

(Update and correction: I mis-read/mis-understood/was just plain stupid in the previous attribution.

Amy, one of the creators of Twistori, has just put me right as follows: 'Twistori is NOT from the Wefeelfine people, Jonathan and Sep.

We were inspired by the spirit of Wefeelfine. Cheers.'

My, ((Mike's)), apologies for all concerned.)

Like Jeff I found it strangely compelling, (not to mention hypnotic, insightful, funny, sad and occasionally barking.)

Essentially it scrapes up all the Tweets containing the words; love, hate, think, believe, feel, wish etc, then feeds them to screen as a kind of stream of global consciousness. (Oh dear, I'm going a bit space-cadetish here aren't I?)

Anyway, suffice to say, why not give it a whirl and see if you like it.

I first came across it on my iPhone, it blew me away immediately, to my untutored eye, (I'm a copywriter not a techie remember), the UI absolutely rocks in it's zen-like simplicity. (Note to self: Mike. Please. Cut the hippy-dippy-trippy stuff.)

Looks a bit tidy scrolling away in a normal web browser too.

ps. Personal favourite 'I love' so far:

"I love the smell of Wigan in the morning."

The foodie power of Twitter:

Ewan, Morgane, Catriona.Today.

Mr & Mrs Bearded Prophet. Same table. 2005.

Guardian Weekly Tech Podcast comes to Edinburgh:

Good company, good location, good chat, dodgy photos here:

Motley Crue.

Jemima.

Aleks.

Upcoming page for this event.

Guardian weekly tech podcast page.

LoopMachine:

This is great.

I don't understand it as well as I might, but really did 'dig' it as I think you young people say.

Wii Loop Machine 2.0 :: Sampling! from The Amazing Rolo on Vimeo.

I came across it after following a link on upcoming.org.

Rolo, who you see in the film, is going to be at, but I assume not performing, at the Guardian Weekly Tech podcast tomorrow, which is being recorded in Edinburgh. (About 50 geeky/techie/Social media type have signed up to come along.)

Should be a 'blast', (which I'm told is another expression you young web people use all the time?)

Jim, from LaBanda is also threatening to bring along a hi-tech musical saw player from South America.

All of which brings to mind Russell's interesting gigs. (Without the badges.)

Whopper FreakOut:

This is very, very, very good.

(And, very good.)

From the home of the subservient chicken.

It's 7 minutes long, but in my book worth it.

So stop tweeting and start watching.

(Thanks to Adrian at mightysmall who originally saw it here on adsareboring.)

Twitter. Quality not quantity ?:

Recently I've been getting into Twitter more and more, after a somewhat slow start on my part.

And without really thinking too hard about it, imagined it was/is a really 'big-deal' in the social space.

However, I was amazed to see just how few people are using it, compared to the mainstream social networks.

I was a big fan/advocate for FaceBook when it really took off mid-last year. (But soon realised the error of my ways. Ruefully realising that at my age I couldn't blame it on youthful enthusiasm.)

But as Russell Davies put so well in a Campaign article a while back, folk in our game 'have to jump on every bandwagon that comes along' to figure out what it's all about.

Anyway, back to Twitter, take a guess at how many people are using it in your own town? Go own you lazy monkey, think of a number. Now go and search name/location at the top of Twitter, I think you'll be surprised.

I looked up Edinburgh, the numbers where waaaay below what I'd expected. London too. And when compared to FaceBook usage it's little more than a beautifully formed drop in a big messy Ocean. (I had a bit of a poke around Twitter user stats for Edinburgh and found lots of protected updates and a big chunk of users who hadn't posted at all in yonks. But my number crunching/analysis was/is hardly scientific let me hasten to add.)

However, I do think that Twitter punches way above it's weight, will grow dramatically and encourage some cracking spin-offs.

It wasn't like that in my day:

I was lucky enough to get myself on the D&AD Copy jury a few years ago.

It was all very gentlemanly, (and gentlewomanly of course, Barbara Noakes was on it.) And all Smoked Salmon Sandwiches, with Chablis as chilled as the judges.

Larry Barker was there too, and the unflappable Malcolm Duffy. (I forget who else. I'm getting on a bit, and can't be arsed going over to my bookshelf and finding the Annual in question. Late 90's sometime.)

Anyhow, I just saw this great shot (Flotograph?), of a judging session from Flo's blog, (he was doing website jury service this week.)

How times have changed. (Good to see the preponderance of Steve Jobsean black turtle necks too. But there aren't half as many 'ironic' Threadless T's as I'd been led to imagine those young digital folk wear.)

(You can click the shot to enlarge it. Oh, you know the drill.)

Diary date: Guardian.co.uk's Tech Weekly podcast