drbexl.co.uk » what's online? http://drbexl.co.uk Dr Bex Lewis: Polymath Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:42:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 drbexl: Highly Influential http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/09/08/drbexl-highly-influential/ http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/09/08/drbexl-highly-influential/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:22:00 +0000 drbexl http://bexlewis.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/drbexl-highly-influential
According to Topsy, I’m highly influential on Twitter! Be interesting to see their rationale for that, as my other Twitter feeds are not demonstrating the same accolade! Nice.
Well, I guess I do spend quite some time on Twitter… I get all my news, etc. from there!
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Watching ALT-C 2009, streaming live from the University of Manchester, from today through Thursday 10th August 2009. There’s also some other sessions being streamed via UStream.
Follow the stream on Twitter. (#altc2009 seems to be the main hashtag, but there are other’s noted!).
Beware of the concept of Digital Natives:
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]]> http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/07/11/fail-blog/feed/ 0 Tribute to Michael Jackson (Comedy-Style) http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/07/05/tribute-to-michael-jackson-comedy-style/ http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/07/05/tribute-to-michael-jackson-comedy-style/#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:29:00 +0000 drbexl http://bexlewis.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/tribute-to-michael-jackson-comedy-style
This (by the Scottish Falseto Sock Puppets) deserves a wider audience than 1,212 views! Thanks to Prof. Liz Stuart for bringing it to our attention!

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Wow, this is really interesting!

]]> http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/06/24/digital-ethnography-wow/feed/ 0 Chris Moyles Talks Up Church http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/06/18/chris-moyles-talks-up-church/ http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/06/18/chris-moyles-talks-up-church/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:01:00 +0000 drbexl http://bexlewis.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/chris-moyles-talks-up-church

There’s been several mentions of Chris Moyle’s show the other day, where he was absolutely amazed to see people ENJOYING being Christians – clearly been going to the wrong churches!

]]> http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/06/18/chris-moyles-talks-up-church/feed/ 0 Woo hoo! http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/06/03/woo-hoo/ http://drbexl.co.uk/2009/06/03/woo-hoo/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:48:00 +0000 drbexl http://bexlewis.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/woo-hoo I used those precise words when I sent an email to my Mum the other day. My plan on coming back to Winchester was to get enough work to see me through to June… job done, but although I’d had lots of conversations, I didn’t have anything concrete for my next stage – enough work to see me through until October. I was then offered 2 pieces of work which, if I’m careful, will at least keep me that long, and there’s other conversations in the pipeline!

I think that deserves a big WOO-HOO of celebration!

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Finally, I am “trendy”, and was ahead of fashion!
The website “64 words for Aung San Sui Kyi” launched yesterday evening at 9.30pm (GMT), and I was only the second person to Tweet using the hashtag #assk64. Working late on something, I watched it start to take off, particularly once @SarahBrown10, @jimmycarr and @eddieizzard started tweeting about it.
Trending Topic
The image to the left is a screenshot from Twitter in the last 10 minutes, showing that #assk64 is now the third most popular topic on Twitter right now – that’s pretty impressive in less than 24 hours! Most are redirecting people to the website although of course there’s always a few mis-using it – ignore them!
So Where are most of the Retweets coming from?
The organisation behind this hasn’t been slow in asking celebrities to post their “64 words” (although many, like me, have tweeted about it, rather than written their 64 words), and I suspect that @stephenfry (with over half-million followers) has had quite a bit to do with an extra spurt in popularity and the official @64forsuu should be worth following too! @assk64 has dropped off the top trending topics, but still plenty of activity, particularly triggered by Alan Davies this afternoon.
On the Website: George Clooney, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Vaclav Havel, David Beckham, Daniel Craig, and the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown have all written messages of support.

The News: Waiting to see it start to appear, only 1 story in Google at the moment.

Take Action: On the website, on Twitter, or on Facebook!
Update 11th July 2009: Interestingly #assk64 is still circulating on Twitter.
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As Aung San Suu Kyi approaches her 64th birthday (June 19th 2009), and around 13 years of imprisonment, this site was created to collect hundreds of messages of support before that birthday. Created in only 6 days by Rechord, and launched only a couple of hours ago, the site already has a buzz going on Twitter, largely thanks to @SarahBrown10 (Gordon Brown’s wife, he’s also posted an entry, but it keeps disappearing thanks to the volume of Tweets!) and @JimmyCarr, and now @eddieizzard! You can read more about ASSK, and her fight against illegal imprisonment.

Add your voice: Website; Twitter Feed (using hashtag #assk64, let’s see if we can get it trending!); become a friend on Facebook.

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