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Third Thursday – May 2013

Pizza Mista

Hey everyone! It’s Third Thursday again and time for the Social Media Club to meet up again.Time to catch up on Social Media news, time to share your views and time to grab a bite with your Tweeps, Facebook friends and LinkedIn contacts. It’s an… Read more »

You have to love security folk!

Wehrmacht-captured Renault FT17 SD.KFZ 17/18R (f) (MY 30th AFV!!!)

You just have to love people who insist on security for the sake of security. You know, the type who claim you need security even though it’s not really necessary, or even useful. I spotted one of these cases on HSBC’s online banking. To get… Read more »

Points from Intellectual Property talk

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A couple of days ago I went to a talk on Intellectual Property Rights in Projects organised by the BCS. The speaker, Dai Davis was very entertaining and I’m glad to say I learnt quite a bit about this fascinating subject. I used Twitter to… Read more »

Video: Wet washcloth in space

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Awesome experiment: International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield soaks a washcloth, gives it a twist, and…well, you’ll see. Before you watch the clip, try and guess what you think will happen. I must say, I thought something different would happen myself. Check it out: photo… Read more »

Third Thursday – April 2013 #smc

Pizza that makes you wanna cry!

Third Thursday is on the cards again; yes, this one came up rather quickly too and it’s time for all of us meet up again! I can’t believe it’s been a whole month already and I’m really looking forward to a great Social Media Club… Read more »

Newspapers reporting what they read in Social Media

Artis struisvogel leest krant van oppasser / Ostrich reads newspaper of caretaker

I just love this news release on the local newspaper website: It’s fantastic to think that some news editor somewhere saw a Tweet and decided that a 3-line news article was needed, without any context, any investigation, any journalistic value. No wonder newspapers everywhere are… Read more »

Join us for a 3-legged race

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Guinness say that “achieving a Guinness World Record is much more than a simple fact: it’s a means of understanding your position in the world… a yardstick for measuring how you and those around you fit in”. In 2009 468 dedicated Manx pairs captured the… Read more »