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Just a quick one to wish everyone a bountiful, joyful and prosperous New Year of the Tiger, and to share the latest pics of Charlie img src=http://julianhopkins.net/templates/default/img/emoticons/smile.png alt=:-) style=display: inline; vertical-align: bottom; class=emoticon /br /
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It's weird how ...
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A href=http://smckl.com/ SMCKL/a is a group that meets occasionally to explore matters relevant to social media and industry. The most recent one was about social media monitoring tools, and featured three presentations by A href=http://www.comscore.com/ comScore/a, A href= [www.brandtology.com] ...
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A distinct advantage of internet advertising is the ability to accurately measure the audience (through page views), and to know precisely how many people took an interest in the ad by clicking on it. 'Click fraud' (simulating different people by ...
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anthroblogia
I love listening to podcasts - they are a great way to use some of that downtime in an interesting way - when you're driving, walking the dogs, cooking, and so on... I can listen to my favourite programmes whenever ...
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OK, the title pretty much says it all img src=http://julianhopkins.net/templates/default/img/emoticons/smile.png alt=:-) style=display: inline; vertical-align: bottom; class=emoticon /br /
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To get an overall view of the history of blogs in Malaysia, and my fieldwork, I've made a table.br /
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One useful thing about blogs is that they also serve as a kind of 'a href=http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-08/st_thompsondigital memory/a' - like a diary, memories and thoughts are stored for a future time when you can go back and be reminded of what ...
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After blogging about a href=http://julianhopkins.net/index.php?/archives/272-No-Compromise-for-Mister-Potato-Fiesta-2009.htmlphilosophy and potato chips/a for a href=http://www.nuffnang.com.my/blog/2009/11/16/win-up-to-rm10000-cash-prizes-from-mister-potato-just-by-being-creative/Nuffnang/a, I got invited to the 'Mr. Potato Fiesta' last week.br /
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It was at the Mist Club in Bangsarbr /
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Well, the recent Hopenhagen summit turned out to be a dismal failure and an prime example of short-term political and business interests winning it out over good sense.br /
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One of the main problems we face as a ...
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ustrongAugust 1990/strong/ubr /
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I spent about three weeks in Poland from August to September 1990. It was a depressing place at times - heavily polluted, and with communist style buildings everywhere. And it has a tragic history too ...
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blockquoteHome Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein claimed that some bloggers, unlike local journalists, do not adhere to the rules and ethics of journalism in their bid to garner popularity.br /
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Local journalists adhered to ethics but these ...
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It's often been argued that one reason for the popularity of blogs in Malaysia is the restrictions on the mainstream media (MSM) by the government, which uses laws such as the a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_Presses_and_Publications_ActPrinting Presses and Publications Act/a, and a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Primaownership ...
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WW is deldrooling at the idea of watching/del wondering whether Robert Downey Jr. will pull off the English accent as a href=http://sherlock-holmes-movie.warnerbros.com/Sherlock Holmes/a in the new movie out soon.br /
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And, as usual, Nuffnang is offering the chance ...
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[OK touching wood and not jinxing anything OK?!?!?]br /
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Well - the Charlene/Charlotte/Charlize issue is sorted, anyway. We hadn't intended to check the sex of our baby, and leave it as a surprise, but at the last check ...
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What is the purpose of a potato chip? What is its function? What defines a potato chip?br /
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For the answer, we can turn to the wisdom of ancient Greek philosophers, and Aristotle in particular:br /
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I've been wanting to announce this for a while, but we were waiting for the first three months - we're expecting!! img src=http://julianhopkins.net/templates/default/img/emoticons/laugh.png alt=:-D style=display: inline; vertical-align: bottom; class=emoticon /br /
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Wow I haven't blogged for almost two weeks! Actually, I was in Belgium for a week - it was my mother's 70th birthday, and we surprised her by all turning up for lunch. There are six of us children in ...
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The a href=http://awards.nuffnang.com/Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards/a were held last weekend, and various lucky nominees and bloggers were transported into Singapore from Malaysia, Philippines, and Australia. It was the first of its kind and, for me, the cut-off event for my ...
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anthroblogia
The recent plan by the American Federal Trade Commission to A href=http://mashable.com/2009/10/05/ftc-blogger-endorsements/ Fine Bloggers up to $11,000 for Not Disclosing Payments/a has got people talking about the ethical and legal aspects of paying bloggers for content, and apparently A href=http://www.marketing-interactive.com/news/15810 ...
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div class=serendipity_imageComment_left style=width: 337pxdiv class=serendipity_imageComment_img!-- s9ymdb:924 --img class=serendipity_image_left width=337 height=337 src=http://julianhopkins.net/uploads/jh_pic_091016_BrainChips.jpg alt=brain chip //divdiv class=serendipity_imageComment_txtA href=http://justgetthere.us/blog/plugin/tag/brain Source/a/div/divbr /
Doing research as a blog anthropologist, I get sick of people saying, But what's happening in 'real life'?...br /
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This is just a little experiment with A href=http://www.codeplex.com/NodeXL nodeXL/a, inspired by A href=http://www.connectedaction.net/2009/10/01/twitter-flickr-networks-in-nodexl-version-95-lots-of-new-features-improved-performance/ this example of using it to visualise a Twitter network/a. NodeXL is a very nice social network analysis (SNA) and visualisation tool. It works from Microsoft ...
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anthroblogia
I love travelling, and have blogged about a href=http://julianhopkins.net/index.php?/archives/264-The-Golaniad-ID.htmlhitchhiking to Romania/a, a href=http://julianhopkins.net/index.php?/archives/168-Caffe-Lao-in-Luang-Prabang.htmldrinking coffee in Laos/a, a href=http://julianhopkins.net/index.php?/archives/242-A-room-with-a-view-in-Provence.htmla room with a view in Provence/a, a href=http://julianhopkins.net/index.php?/archives/241-Beers!!-Delicious!-Enticing!-Belgian!.htmlbeers in Belgium/a, being a a href=http://julianhopkins.net/index.php?/archives/212-Tourist-in-KL.htmltourist in KL/a, a href=http://julianhopkins.net/index.php?/archives/127-Kuching-shop-signs.htmlshop signs in Kuching/a, a ...
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This is one of my most valuable souvenirs - it may not look like much, but for me it's from a time that I will never forget.br /
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Sometimes being a student can be really tough, and boring...br /
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I'm starting a new category, to talk about things from my past. I used to travel quite a lot, and although earlier on I was 'too cool' to take photos (because that's what 'tourists' do), I do have some. So ...
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I went to a wedding with WW on Sunday, at the a href=http://www.shangri-la.com/en/property/kualalumpur/shangrilaShangri-La in downtown KL/a. I don't like the decoration of that place very much, but the food was nice.br /
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Chinese weddings can tend to all ...
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On Sunday 19 September, I went to the a href=http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23twestivalkl#twestivalkl/a tweetup at the a href=http://mistclub.blogspot.com/Mist club in Bangsar/a. It was my first one and so I went along to check it out. At the back of my mind I was ...
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anthroblogia
In Moral Philosophy there are four main strands:br /
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bull; Utilitarianism: i.e. 'the greatest good for the greatest number'br /
bull; Egoism: i.e. 'I know what's best for me, and that's all that matters'br /
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Doing an interview recently, I realised that I am the epitome of the bad blogger! My crime? I am inconsistent - I blog in spurts, but not regularly. A good blogger needs to blog regularly (at least 3 times a ...
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After getting my camera stolen a couple of months ago, I have finally got a camera again and feel like a real blogger again! img src=http://julianhopkins.net/templates/default/img/emoticons/cool.png alt=8-) style=display: inline; vertical-align: bottom; class=emoticon / br /
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As I have learnt to use Twitter better, I have understood that one of the key things to keeping it useful is to follow the right person - for example, I like to follow various Malaysian politicians (e.g. A href=twitter.com/limkitsiang ...
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I went to another blogger party last Thursday (participant observation is such a drag sometimes... img src=http://julianhopkins.net/templates/default/img/emoticons/wink.png alt=;-) style=display: inline; vertical-align: bottom; class=emoticon /) - for once it was not a Nuffnang party, but one organised by A href=http://www.advertlets.com/ Advertlets/a ...
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div class=serendipity_imageComment_left style=width: 134pxdiv class=serendipity_imageComment_img!-- s9ymdb:850 --img class=serendipity_image_left width=134 height=200 src=http://julianhopkins.net/uploads/pics_0908/bg_090804_KoreanMoveableType.jpg alt=Korean moveable type //divdiv class=serendipity_imageComment_txtA href=http://londonkoreanlinks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/jikji.jpg Source/a /div/divDid you know that it was not A href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg Gutenberg/a who invented moveable type – known as 'printing' to most of us? ...
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A recent post by danah boyd (and Bernie Hogan) called A href=http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/07/28/would_the_real.html Would the real social network please stand up?/a makes some interesting points about the dangers of assuming all social networks are comparable and concludes br /
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