Holy cow! Telepresence is magic

Eve Dmochowska    Think about it    

The more time I spend playing online, the more innovations just blow me away. But this one takes the cake.

It’s called “telepresence”, and in this video it was used to create a 3D virtual, live, image of a presenter, who could not physically attend a conference, but presented anyway. His image was [...]

South African Twitter’ers

Eve Dmochowska    Uncategorized    

If you use Twitter, and you are a South African, please add your name to this wiki.
It will give everybody an idea of how big the twitter community is in the country, and will also hopefully allow us to hook up with some twitterers that are slipping through the cracks :-)
Also, once you add your [...]

NBC, I am not amused

Eve Dmochowska    Gripes    

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I was directed to a Nerve.com site showing the 50 most popular advert parodies of all time. I love stuff like this, so was eager to see what made number 1. Well, I don’t know.
For some reason, NBC.com has decided that because of my geographical location, I am not entitled to watch [...]

Change of book plans: online release eminent!

Eve Dmochowska    Life    

As I have mentioned before, Gino and I are working on a book for a UK publisher, on the topic of Social Media. Actually, that should now be phrased in the past tense.
I had a careful look at the contract, and was horrified to consider the implications of some of the terms:

We would be lucky [...]