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Twitter helping to find ‘indie’ the cat – be vigilant!

Woke this morning to discover I’m being followed by ‘Lost in Bondi’, thought it might be a backpacker, but no its the beautiful looking ‘indie’ the cat – who is sadly lost. Tweet, blog, put up posters – spread the word. Let’s find ‘indie’. 20/12/2008, UPDATE: Indie has been found… !!!!
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Bond shenanigans in Sydney

Daniel Craig & entourage hit Sydney for the premiere of Quantum of Solace. Frenzied photo madness. Looking forward to the next installment. Blogging from the red carpet (well, just to the side!). Here’s a few pics, not the best quality (iPhone), but you get the idea.. Rachael is interviewing Marc Forster on Tuesday!!
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McCain vs. Obama – undisputed presidential championship

Feels like forever that we’ve been getting to know Obama, on flickr, twitter, facebook, youtube, blogs, tv, and the iPhone etc etc. Isn’t he running America already? Last September I was in Washington Square, NYC and was lucky enough to catch Obama speaking. It was an empowering address that had the crowd ‘fired up and [...]
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Download this song (we need 20,000 to make it a record)

The new Kid Confucius single “Darling, I Need Ya” has been iTunes single of the week this week. Friends and fans of the band are all doing their best to hit the 20,000 downloads mark to make it a record here in Australia. And reach a wider audience. So to help the cause (and the [...]
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Radiohead Nude remix results

Unique visitors: 6,193,776 Page Views: 29,090,134 Hits: 58,340,512 Bandwidth: 10.666 Terabytes Number of mixes: 2,252 Number of votes: 461,090 Number of track listens: 1,745,304 Fantastic example of user-made content and the impact it has. Shared via the w.a.s.t.e mail-list on the announcement of the Reckoner remix project. Be interesting to see if it has a [...]
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If tomorrow never comes

Walking to my car last night I discovered this note on the ground, and took a photo… A fragment of a story that we can only wonder about. What do you think happened?
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Gameboy Rock: reformat your instrument

BLIP FESTIVAL: REFORMAT THE PLANET trailer from 2 Player Productions on Vimeo. Loving this. Check the kid going off in the opening scenes. Plus, if you like this you’ll probably enjoy my previous post on the iBand. Big respec to Olly C in the UK for the link.
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Illuminate your dark side

Questionable title I know (perhaps you can suggest something better?). But I had to intro this great pic/ad with something. I wonder if Philips are the light bulb choice for Star Wars fans. Found on FFFFOUND.
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Max Knight Walking Bike

The bike actually works, visit Max Knight design to see it in action.
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Addictive TV remix Iron Man

Addictive TV give the Iron Man movie their particular style of remix mashup bootleg that they’re famous for. I know that New Line Cinema got them to mixup Shoot Em Up and Snakes On A Plane [below]. But I wonder if Paramount commissioned them to do Iron Man? Of course the marketers wet dream is [...]
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The truth about FaceBook

Hilarious real-world sketch on the realities of connecting to people you weren’t really friends with in the first place. I totally relate to this. Hardly using FaceBook anymore, in fact, it outright annoys me most of the time. It has no relevance now I’ve got over the honeymoon of connecting to everyone I knew. Maybe [...]
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Lego men iPhone SIM swap

iPhone unpacking Originally uploaded by ntr23. It wasn’t me guvnor.. it was the Lego men! Comedy photoset of Lego men unpacking a new iPhone – and then swapping the SIM. Well everyone does, don’t they?
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Flickr Video Launch

Video on Flickr? Originally uploaded by heather So here it is the first video example on flickr. I’ve been neglecting my image output of late, so I cant think when I’ll have a video to share. But its good to know that I can keep them all in one place. I already want a photo [...]
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Steve Chen & Me

Steve Chen & Me Originally uploaded by benhamin. Just had the pleasure of meeting Steve Chen the co-founder of YouTube. I write the new media column for Inside Film and was chosen to go and interview him today. We had a great chat about the opportunities YouTube provides creators. There will be an article soon. [...]
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