10 posts tagged “blog”
"Standing in the mud yet being burnt by the sun. Glastonbury, Glastonbury you are so much fun."
spoken through SpinVox
"I have just seen a priest playing bongos. Now I have seen everything."
spoken through SpinVox
"I burn my candle at both ends, it may not last the night,
but oh my foes and oh my friends, my candle does burn bright."
spoken through SpinVox
"This is my shopping list so I can read it later. Vine tomatoes, whole juicy cucumber, iceberg lettuce, two lemons, lots of fresh mince, need some red peppers, some kidney beans, some vegetarian mince I think. And some herbs. Some eggs. Thank you, bye."
spoken through SpinVox
"Good morning readers. I am on my way to the Food 2.0 event. Just boarding at London Waterloo. I've got all my SpinVox goodies, and it should be a good day. Watch my other streams and you'll see all my content being uploaded. See you soon. Thank you, bye."
spoken through SpinVox
"I've just been to the Rick Astley Flash Mob at London's Liverpool Street and it was frigging hilarious. I should be uploading a video as soon as I get in front of my laptop. Fantastic. Bye."
spoken through SpinVox
EDIT - As promised, here's the video:
"Greetings from Barcelona. I am loving Mobile World Congress seen a lot of cool stuff. Hanging out at the SpinVox stand and hanging out at the Nokia stand. Going out for dinner with the SpinVox crew now. Make sure you check out spinvox.com because we've re launched the website. I haven't got internet access in my room so hence me blogging through SpinVox."
spoken through SpinVox
"I'm holding a phone! I work with phones. That counts as work"
Anywhoo - if that's the case then that's me over there
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Being busy.
:p
Ok ok ok - so I've been neglecting my VOX a little bit of late. I've had some good reasons mind. Most of which will hopefully become clear by the time you finish reading.
Er... that is if you finish reading at the end of this post. Not if you finish reading NOW for instance.
That'd be rubbish.
So let's crack on shall we?!
Right - the 'to-blog' list from my last-but-one post read a little something like this:
- My business trip to San Francisco, (well - everything that happened after the first 24hrs anyway)
- Social Networks through SpinVox
- And all of the news and coverage that followed that... Because it's NOW LIVE folks! Go! Get it!
- A couple of other blogging projects that I want to talk about
- Mobile Geeks of London III (I'm waiting on ONE PERSON to come back to me before we move ahead)
First up:
My business trip to San Francisco
I'm going to duck out at this point at say that it deserves a post all to itself. So I'm going to cheat a bit and defer that to another post. Not the best of starts.
Next:
Social Networks through SpinVox
Again - saving this for a separate post - it's a bit of a SpinVox love in to be honest - and I can't wait to share it!
(the news and coverage falls into this too)
What else:
Mobile Geeks of London III -
The plan was to get this out and done by the end of November - but what with it being two days until December you and I both know that that just is not going to happen. However, the ONE PERSON who I was waiting for DID get back to me - and we're making plans to get it up and running early 2008. So watch this space.
Finally:
The couple of other blogging projects that I've been working on - this is the thing that's been taking up my time - hence the VOX neglect - but hey - I'm back now huh?
First up - Remember how I told you that you could Blog through SpinVox?
Well - NOOOOOOW - Yours truly is now officially 'Editor-in-Chief' over at the new SpinVox Blog.
Wheeeeee! Which is just cool.
(remind me to change my email sig - hehe)
It's only been going for a little while now and, although I'm still finding my feet a little bit, I've got some great support from the team around me and hopefully it'll go from strength to strength. Got some great ideas for the next three months or so.... so do me a favour and add the SpinVox Blog Feed to your RSS reader today!
(and if you don't like the content - at least you know who to complain to!) ;)
Ok - so now - onto my other blogging project - and this kind of ties into my last post too - in that you've probably been waiting for 'part 2' of the review. Well - sorry to break it to you - but part 2 isn't coming...
What happened was my mate Ewan Macleod, Editor over at SMS Text News, saw my "Future of Mobile - Part 1" post (which I did, live, from my N95 - thank you VOX - haven't done that for a while), and dropped me a sneaky text asking if he could have a full write-up.
"Sure thing" I said. So he wrote a leading piece and then I followed it up with the full write up.
:)
All of which seemed to go down pretty well. Ewan's a top guy and I've done some things with him in the past so it was nice to actually sit down and properly contribute to his, quite frankly, fantastic site.
Anywhoo - this lead onto another conversation which in turn resulted with the following question -
"How about doing it regularly? Not reporting per se, but more of a weekly opinion piece... "
So with SpinVox' blessing (thanks guys!) "Whatley Wednesday" was born.
Subjects covered so far: Flashmobbing and the Nokia N81 8GB.
Again - quite a new project - but regular Whatleydude content, week in week out?! You can't complain!
;)
So where does that leave my VOX blog?
My SpinVox-y chatter has found a home and now it seems my Mobile chatter has found a home too.
Well as I've already said - I've still got stuff I want to write up - but if you remember - I originally started this VOX so I could blog the Glastonbury Festival LIVE from my mobile.
And even though that had geeky overtones - it was still more of a personal thing.
So... I'm gonna try and take this blog back to its roots!
After all - the address is on my Moo Card so I best make sure the content is up to date!
Until next time....
"Hello, it's me. I'm just demonstrating voice to text via SpinVox. So what do you think I think it's quite cool. Look it's right there wooohoo." - Spoken through SpinVox
My dear friend Helen - aka Technokitten - has just taken my Blogtag cherry... I say 'just'...
Helen actually gave me a shout back in July, but I've been so sodding busy I just haven't round to doing it...
However! As I'm off on my hols this week and I'm desperately trying to do anything BUT pack - I thought I might actually give this a go...
But first - here are the rules:
- We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
- Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
- People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules. At the end of your blog post, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
So - without further a do - here we go!
1) I am a Hugger. A Free Hugger in fact. I own two 'Free Hugs' T-shirts, a 'Free Hugs' hat and I even have a few 'Free Hugs' badges that I give out on occasion. I bought my first shirt on a whim earlier this year and now wear it quite regularly - in fact - I even set up the facebook group - 'Huggers Unite' - where I organise the odd 'Free Hugs' event around the streets of London... why not join the group and come to the next one? I believe a hug can make you feel so much better. The first event we ever did in Covent Garden was only supposed to go on for an hour - but we were there the whole afternoon - one of the most satisfying things I've ever done.
2) I'm a geek. No really. Not in the mobile sense like you're all thinking right now. But in the "I-own-comic-books-and-I-collect-the-figures-and-sometimes-I-don't-even-take-them-out-of-their-boxes" kind of way.
There. I said it. Ahem.
3) I once fasted for seven days. That's right. SEVEN DAYS. Not a single morsel passed my lips for a week.
Detoxing in Thailand at the Spa they have on Koh Samui. Changed my entire life. Everyone should do this at least once... It sorted my head out, put my career on track and as and added bonus - I lost about two stone in weight!
4) I used to be an accountant. Say. No. More.
5) I studied at Drama School, (see above).
6) I'm a gamer. I love Nintendo through and through and have owned pretty much every system they've produced at some point or another in their patchy history... I bought a Wii on day of release and people are STILL struggling to get their hands on them... This fact I like a lot. :o)
7) I can dance like a Cossack. Like.. properly. Strange old family tradition. We can all do it. Are we Russian at all? No. But if you're REALLY special and if I like you an AWFUL lot - then I may consider wheeling it out for you at your next party... for example - the wedding I went to at the weekend... my thighs are killing me now... aargh! Yeah - so don't ever let me get involved in a dance off - (it's been known to happen before).
8) I'm a married man. Got hitched in June 2005 and it was all over by March 2006. And the best part of it all? I wouldn't change a single thing... Without it, I would not be person I am today. And anyone who knows me knows that I am one happy fella!
So who do I tag?
Well - I think eight random things about the following people would make a good read:
- My good friend (and new blogger) Will,
- Fellow Nintendo fan Neil,
- My Jaiku/Vox Nokian buddy Carol,
- New friend Melissa,
- Taptu demon Vero,
- Founder of Refresh Mobile - Scott Beaumont - link as soon as I have it (I know you've got a blog somewhere Scott), EDIT - Thanks Scott
- Good buddy and ex colleague of mine - Prash
- Aaaaaaaaand... last and by every means least - Mobile9 King: Abul. ;o)
By the way - the photo on this post? It's a pic of eight random things that are closest to my desk!
A prize for the person that can name all eight...
EDIT - Scott came back with his link - it can be found here: http://scottbeau.blogspot.com and also - as for the picture prize competition - name as many as you can... prize goes to the person that gets the most right...
