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
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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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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.
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.
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...
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?
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. .
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?
"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.
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,
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.
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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