A few of us tested Tokbox for doing a live video conf call earlier today and it BLEW MY MIND. You can apparently have 50 people or more on a video conf at the same time! I think I’ll use this for the live show next week instead of uStream, see how it goes.
You can also use it to send video mail. Send me a message below.
http://www.tokbox.com/vr/3qi0vl5itj
TokBox – Free Video Chat and Video Messaging
I’ve written an overview of the Livewire story over on the TPNx blog (which is where I’m talking about social media things). I think it shows one way that social media can break a story and, more importantly perhaps, keep the story alive.
I was looking for a sleeve for my 17″ Macbook Pro – something that isnt as bulky as a whole bag / backpack for when I go to meetings – and the folks at Haul sent me one of theirs. Haul are pretty cool – all of their sleeves and bags are made from recycled billboards! Mine is apparently an old AMEX billboard. They make other things as well from truck inner-tubes, number plates, printing blankets and aluminium cans.
And you can chat with them on Twitter.
I’m amused and bemused this morning by the reports all of the Aussie news services are running about how much twitter bashing Gretel Killeen copped while hosting the Logies last night. BTW, The Logies, for international readers, is a totally lame annual Australian television industry awards ceremony. Personally, I would rather eat my own underwear than watch it. But apparently some Aussies did and they expressed their disappointment in the show, not by turning it off and reading a frakking book, but by bashing the hostess on Twitter. However the news services running that story this morning (most of whom seem to have just republished the AAP story – hey, who needs journalists when you can use AAP?) seem to be reluctant to mention that names of the people bashing Gretel and just refer to them as “one user said” – unless, of course, the Twitterer was a celebrity, such as Wil Anderson or the Chaser guys. Then they get name checked, but no link to their tweets.
What do you think this means? If you’re an ordinary citizen, it’s alright to quote you but not to mention who you are? Or link to your tweets? Is it because the news services think writing something like
@khushee said: “Gretel mentions Twitter – if only she knew what was being said!”
or
@amileegrant said “Bedtime. I’m over this sad attempt at an awards show. Yawn. Hope gretel gets drunk and falls over and her dress rips off on stage.”
would be too confusing to the non-Twittering public? Or just because they news services don’t think it matters who the non-celebrity Twitterers are?
Celebrity culture – I frakking hate it.
Dr Philip Nitschke, PhD, MBBS, BSc (Hons) is the Founder and Director of Exit International, the world’s leading Voluntary Euthanasia and end-of-life choices information and advocacy organisation.
A few days after recording this interview, Philip and his wife were detained at London’s Heathrow airport for nine hours and denied access to a lawyer. During the interview he mentioned spending more time in the UK – after this week’s experience, he is reconsidering.
