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Monday, November 10, 2008

Webconsuls Live Event Coverage of the Oxbow World Longboard Tour at San Onofre



The Oxbow World Longboard Tour came to town last week, And Webconsuls was there to cover the show. Surf legends and 44 of the worlds top longboard surfers were treated to hot and glassy surf for the entire contest. This year the event was located on the historic Surf Beach at San Onofre, the heart of Aloha on the US mainland. The winner, Bonga Perkins, was kind enough to sit down and answer all of the tough questions for our littlest interviewer. For more from the Oxbow World Tour 2008 San Onofre Championships please visit, LBChampionship.com. Video By Ella G. McClure, Questions By Ella G. McClure

For help with getting your live event on the internet,
Via Blogs, Youtube, Twitter, and other social media venues please contact us here at Webconsuls.

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Monday, November 3, 2008

Are Filters Important? Ask Sarah Palin



Spam comes at us from many directions. It is estimated that on any given day 88% to 98% of emails sent across the internets are spam or virus laden. That begs the question, how good are your filters? Do you get 1 bad email a day? an hour? a week? Or has email become such a wasteland of spam that you no longer bother to read it and go directly to instant messaging or Facebook and Twitter. It looks to me like Sarah Palin needs to check her filters, as no "Flapper" should have ever let that kind of call thru. (a Flapper being the human equivalent of a filter.)

As Sarah found out, it is a good idea to check your filter regularly. Like your car, not just to see what has been caught, but also to decide if too much junk is getting thru.

Here at Webconsuls we use GMail for our domain email. Today I bet Palin wishes Google had a service that could filter her calls, perhaps when Grand Central comes outa beta.
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Monday, September 22, 2008

What Happens in Vegas Lives on Facebook FOREVER! Blogworld08 #bwe08

Lisa A. McClure at BlogWorld08

Home from BlogWorld08 in Las Vegas!!


We had and excellent time meeting up with old and new friends.

Blogworld07 vs BlogWorld08? Last year CNN was there to watch everyone arrive, this year no TV coverage from what I could tell. Last year a great pajama party with an open bar, roast beast, and a chocolate fountain, this year was a scene from Napoleon Dynamite with bad red wine and a quesadilla bar. Last year, the buzz was about Stumble, This year Twitter? We were wondering what the next big thing was going to be but this year seemed to be about rehashing old memes. I was very happy to be able to stoke out my photographer friends with a link to Photosynth.net they missed those blog posts I guess.

Webconsuls.com always on the lookout for that next big thing.

Got the next big thing? We want to know about it!

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Pickens Plan



America is addicted to foreign oil.

It's an addiction that threatens our economy, our environment and our national security. It touches every part of our daily lives and ties our hands as a nation and a people.
The addiction has worsened for decades and now it's reached a point of crisis.

In 1970, we imported 24% of our oil.
Today it's nearly 70% and growing.

As imports grow and world prices rise, the amount of money we send to foreign nations every year is soaring. At current oil prices, we will send $700 billion dollars out of the country this year alone — that's four times the annual cost of the Iraq war.

The Pickens Plan

Did you know you can follow the Pickens Plan on Twitter, and Youtube?

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Life Streaming using BrightKite, Twitter and Plurk



When out and about, Lisa and I are "Life Streaming" using Brightkite, Twitter and Plurk.

It added a whole new dimension to our trip to Tucson.

By sending a SMS message to BrightKite with our location, @ Blythe for instance, Then sending shots we were taking with our iPhones via email to BrightKite where they were then tagged with that location.

As BrightKite posted the picts they tweeted them for us so those that were following would be notified of new content. (HI MOM!)

With the actual conversation taking place on Plurk, where we could use the direct link to all of those iPhone/BrightKite images we took the time to share.

Next we get home and slam everyone with our Nikon shots...

But that is another post.

Got a Life? Have fun with it!

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Friday, June 6, 2008

Plurk 8 reasons why it is everything that Twitter should be



Verb. plurk - To chronicle the events of your always on, action-packed, storybook, semi-charmed kinda life...

Microblogging is where it is at today, and with all of Twitter's recent downtime many of the Internets crash test dummy's, (like yours truly,) have jumped on the Plurk bandwagon, and here is why,

1) It has a time line, and inline reply's to your "Plurks"
2) It's up.
3) You can put your friends in groups.
4) It's up.
5) I has "Karma"
6) It's up.
7) The Mobile version is boss!
8) Did I mention it was up?

Got Plurk?

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

E-Card Inspired by Twitter and James Buck



There's a new e-card you can send inspired by James Buck's timely use of Twitter. Send it to your loved ones.

Saved by Twitter

April 10, James Buck was going to head back home from a three-week assignment studying the Egyptian blogosphere.

"I was trying to take some photos of this small protest and trying to be very clear that I was not in the protest, It was very tense." - James Buck

As Buck tried to leave the protest in a taxi, He was chased and then detained by Egyptian police. As he was driven to the police station under the direction of the police, Buck was able to sent out a single-word message from his cell phone to his Twitter account: Arrested.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Turn up the Signal!

These go to 11

Today across the bloggispheir everyone from Seth Godin to Nate Ritter are bemoaning the problem of the signal to noise ratio going in the wrong direction.

Being that any social network is only as strong as the people who call it their own these posts got me thinking about something that has been running around in my head for some time. Twitter for me has become my Search Tool of choice. If I need a Guru, I can ask the folks who use twitter for help.

So, here is my idea, and it is far from new, Nate rightly called it "Pay it Forward", but let's also make it into a game!

We Twitter users LOVE games!

Got Twitter? Ask a question, get REAL answers from REAL people.

Then, Become the Guru and answer a question, want bonus points? answer 2 or more questions!

We could track thru hashtags, so

#1to1 would be 1 point,

Think this would work?

What else would you do to make Paying it Forward on Twitter fun?

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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Excellence then, is not an act.

@DallasWTaylor and @DarinRMcClure iPhone photo by @LisaMcClure

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle,
or Getting your head around Twitter.

Ok, you just got twitter and you are completely lost as to what to do with it.

First, follow some people with your interests, you can do a search or use twitter tracking to find the buzz from people with your interest who are already using Twitter. (A "How-to" for another blog post, this walk thru is about using Twitter via the web.)

We all start our day at home and that is as good a place as any to start your day twittering.

http://twitter.com/home

Here you will see a "Recent" tab, these are messages from the people that you follow and this is where you are at at Twitter when you are at home.

Next you will see a "Replys" Tab, these are messages the have been made by other Tweeters that reference you in some way, a reply or a remark, @DarinRMcClure would be about me for instance.

The "Archive" tab would be everything that you have publicly posted on Twitter, and a great way to see where your were, or what you were doing on any given day.

I like to tweet cool quotes, or links that I want to be able to check at leisure, and this is where we get to the Meat of Twitter,

"What are you doing?"

A good way to let your friends know you are online and checking into twitter, is to just say hello.

I see tweets that range from "another great day, or good morning, or COFFEEEEEE!!!!" Ok, I do all the coffee tweets ...

Don't miss your direct messages,

http://twitter.com/direct_messages

And as this is a conversation, reply to your replies,

http://twitter.com/replies

Then go back "Home" since you only followed "Groovy People" you should see some interesting to REMarkable things in your public timeline, from Haiku's on the smell of the person in front of you at FiveBucks, to classic rockers coaxed out into the twitterverse.

Want to really have fun, get your family on twitter, friends, coworkers. You will get to know them in ways that you may never have before. Who got fresh powder in Utah, Who is competing in an around the world adventure for charity, who is stuck in traffic, or thinking about a great new mashup.

Got twitter?

Spend the next 21 days playing with it, and you may.

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Twittering with Dallas Taylor

Dallas Taylor on Twitter

Spent the day yesterday helping Dallas get his feet wet with Twitter.

Cheryl Jasperblu @dallaswtaylor 1st, here's to BillW. 2nd, a CSN compadre on twitter?! Really?! *swoon*
Kristal Kraft KrisTalk @DallasWTaylor Thanks for the free music! I really like it! :)
Doug Haslam DougH @dallaswtaylor Also curious- what got you onto Twitter?
Doug Haslam DougH @dallaswtaylor Glad to see you on Twitter, and curious about the new tunes!
videodred videodred @DallasWTaylor I really love the tunes... keep on keepin on...
RichardatDELL RichardatDELL @DallasWTaylor @infiltrators @jamarch @GiannaBorgnine @bbrooks @webb thanks for follow and Ill do same. Looking forward to hearing from you
Paul Chaney pchaney @DallasWTaylor - I'll spread the word.
Paul Chaney pchaney @DallasWTaylor - some cool tunes. Enjoying them. Thanks.
GraemeThickins GraemeThickins @DallasWTaylor - my pleasure - it's great to meet you! (Tweet you?)... :-) will check out your new stuff for sure....
LewisG LewisG @DallasWTaylor Have you created a Facebook page. Your new stuff could reach many more folks if you did. If you have one, let me know.
Mark Romano LemonLaw @DallasWTaylor That's very brave of you. How do people who need you help find you?
LewisG LewisG @DallasWTaylor One of the great albums ever. 1977, I think. Wish more folks tapped into Delaney. Others remember you as well.
LewisG LewisG @DallasWTaylor Just shared with my followers. Were you on the elaney & Bonnie & friends album?
who2one who2one @DallasWTaylor wish i cud quit my day job!!!!! as for the link its still downloading.
Stuart MacDonald stuartma @dallaswtaylor Wonderful to have you in here. CSN = magic. Sharing your story honestly on YouTube is great http://is.gd/5Ci
LewisG LewisG @DallasWTaylor I just heard first 2 cuts. Killer! You still got it, Man! Am telling other Twitterers about it.
Tom Royce TomRoyce @DallasWTaylor Thanks for the follow. Been a fan of your work for years.
Mark Romano LemonLaw @DallasWTaylor Do you work with teen drug users, or adult alcoholics? (I assume they have different sets of problems)
Matt Herzberger mherzber @DallasWTaylor i saw the video Darin shoot, it was great, and thanks for new album, i told my dad (ex-hippy) about you, he was stoked
Alex de Carvalho alexdc @DallasWTaylor Good luck, man http://youtube.com/dallaswt... (ex-drummer of Crosby, Stills & Nash)

Mark Romano LemonLaw @DallasWTaylor Interesting stuff. What are you up to, in general?
Paul Chaney pchaney @DallasWTaylor - I'm stoked that you'd choose to follow me. CSN&Y (less excited about Y, :->) was one of my favorite bands.
KeithBurtis KeithBurtis @DallasWTaylor , thanks for the tweet follow :)
Paul Chaney pchaney @DallasWTaylor is following me. He was the drummer for a little known rock band...Crosby, Stills and Nash. Oh yea, Young too.
Paul Chaney pchaney @DallasWTaylor - Thanks for the follow Dallas.
ChrisKauza ChrisKauza @ DallasWTaylor Thanks for connecting here; take it easy...(but take it).
gj acomputerpro @DallasWTaylor so pleased to have you as a Twitterbud. I'm a big fan of CSN&Y. I shall be entertained by your music, and entertain you back.
Kyle Kratky BraceKyle @DallasWTaylor hello, new Twitter friend. Your mission is a noble one. Keep up the important work.
M. Level mlevel @DallasWTaylor: Great work on Deja Vu--glad you're still doing it!

He had a great time connecting with everyone and was stoked to get all the nice comments from the folks in the Twitterverse,

Did you follow Dallas for your free gift?

Are you trying to get your head around Twitter?

We can help.

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

This is not an April fool's joke

10 Downing Street
The British Prime Minister's Office at 10 Downing Street is now running an official twitter channel (this is not an April fool's joke, by the way!), using a mixture of manual posts/replies and automated posts using twitterfeed.com. It's apparently run by the Prime Minister's Digital Communications team. How cool is that?

Happy April Fools day, May all your jokes be good ones!

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