Today was Social Media Day, a virtual event organised by Mashable, the online magazine of all things Web 2.0 and Tech. In Adelaide, the key ‘gathering’ was an online converstation using Twitter and the hashtag #socadl. (NOTE: Using hashtags immediately before words or terms in Twitter, transforms an ordinary word or term into an index term that enables users to thread together all tweets using the particular hashtag into a timeline....

Just caught the promo for Life At Five, a documentary about human development by the age of five. One of the outstanding findings of the various “experiments” was that almost all children by age five have learned to lie. This was demonstrated by putting children in a room with an object, asking them to sit facing away from it and promising not to look at it. The children were left in the room and secretly filmed. They inevitably...

Stop blocking This website has been created by a stalwart of the international PR community, Shel Holtz, to help battered, progressive managers argue and lobby for offering or maintaining employee access to social networking sites during office hours. He has said the site became necessary when self-serving companies who make money out of blocking access discovered the key to getting headlines. They simply do bad mathematics to exaggerate the...

Midomi Midomi is a social network with a difference, in fact it moves to the beat of a different drum! A good friend of mine from Japan told me about this site and has summed it up as follows: “Basically if you’re trying to find a song, but you can’t remember the artist or song title, go to Midomi, and “sing” the song you want. Sing or hum a few bars into your computer’s mic and Midomi will tell you what it...