Archive for the 'Blogging' Category

Welcome to seesmic….

Published by Ben Kepes on April 25, 2008 in Blogging. 1 Comment

I’ve not as yet joined the realm of the podcasters out there, however an invite code to seesmic made me think about starting a foray in vidcasting. Firstly I’d be keen to hear readers opinions on whether vidcasting is a positive step for a blog such as this one;

So, is the ability to sms-to-donate a case of;

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Anyway - here’s my first foray into vidcasting, enjoy!

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Blogging… a health warning..

Published by Ben Kepes on April 8, 2008 in Blogging, IT, Society and Strategy. 2 Comments

At 530am this morning when I got up to check my RSS feeds, I was faced by this article in the New York Times, decrying the dangers of blogging and using the example of the health impacts recently seen by prominent bloggers. The NYT likened blogging to third world sweat shops creating Nike shoes or Gap tops, only in this case workers sit in illuminated offices with acres of LCD screens in front of them.

I take another viewpoint on this debate, most bloggers aren’t doing it through economic necessity (hey no one has paid me for my average 2-3 posts a day for the past year or so) they do it in an attempt to create a voice, disseminate a message and, I guess, create a pond within which they’ll hopefully grow to be a big fish (excuse the tortured metaphor).

It is true however that online does not equate entirely to the real world. While I do spend a fair amount of time each day in front of a screen, yesterday I interspersed a 2km swim between blogging sessions, took in a networking/economic development functions, talked strategy (face to face no less!) with a friend/business associate and hung out with the kids looking at stuff we collected during our middle east sojourn last year.

So at the end of the day it comes back to balance - blog away people, follow the memes, predict the trends and get in depth with social media - but at the same time head outside sometimes and smell the roses…

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NetGuide web awards

Published by Ben Kepes on March 17, 2008 in Blogging, New Zealand and nzwc. 0 Comments

It’s that time of year again - voting for the NetGuide web awards has opened.

If you have a favourite ISP, e-commerce site or even Blog click here to vote.

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Innovative marketing… from New Zealand?

Published by Ben Kepes on March 3, 2008 in Blogging, IT, New Zealand and nzwc. 0 Comments

Interesting to hear this morning of the Geekzone Visual Studio 2008 blog. Geekzone has partnered with Microsoft to bring an advertising funded, but still useful, limited time blog centered around, not surprisingly, Microsoft’s Visual Studio product.

It seems to be a win/win solution. Geekzone gets some revenue, MS gets some exposure and users get some useful information - well done guys!

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