After playing around with Flock I finally got a flickr account. I thought they were totally spak but it’s kinda fun. Great business model too. You get sucked in, blow your 20 meg limit in one day and then you go, “ah screw it, I’ll pay $25 US and go pro”. Clever buggers.
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Motherflocker
I read about the browser Flock some time ago. I remember at the time that Flock was dismissed by someone as a ‘Firefox extension’, as Flock is based on Firefox. It is a self proclaimed web 2.0 browser. Maybe I have gone soft in the head, but I wanted to see what it was like for myself.
It does have a close button on each tab too…
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Webstock references on technorati
Posts that contain Webstock per day for the last 30 days.
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Four years
Four years of bucketFountain – I’m amazed! It’s been a busy four years I guess… Webstock was great and all of the feedback has been really good, I think that people enjoyed it and learnt lots. I’m looking forward to debriefing with the rest of the organising team as many lessons were learned.
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Quick progress report on Webstock
Final Day tomorrow and I don’t want it to end. I have met so many amazing people and I can’t get over how cool they all are. Brekkie with Joel tomorrow at 7:15am. I’ve good mind to complain to the organisers that that 7:15am for breakfast is the height of just-too-muchery.
The Bird has been a little neglected this week – but luckily his grandparents on his mothers side have been popping in to keep him company in the evenings.
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Webstock is here
It has all started for us – met Kelly Goto and Doug Bowman at the airport this morning. No one should have to be out of bed before 8am on a Sunday morning. Still, I shouldn’t complain, at least I hadn’t had a 13+ trip…
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Festival of the Arts
The festival is over and the impressive tent dome has gone. What will take it’s place?
Hopefully this:
You can read more about it here(warning : nasty PDFs ahead)
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After rain
Autumn has come in and like last year the temperature has dropped suddenly. A shower the other day resulted in this; the sun came out straight away and the rain evaporated…
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NZ International Arts Festival
The festival of the arts is on in Wellington. Everything that I’ve seen so far has been of pretty high quality, although Eva has really stood out. The dancing was great, but the music really blew me away. It struck me that the singing was similar to Islamic music I had heard (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan for instance) and that the dancing was sort of (that’s a big sort of) like belly dancing. The south of Spain were occupied by the Moors for hundreds of years, and so of course it makes sense that Flamenco has its roots in Islamic/Arabic music. There was very little in the way of props or fancy tricks, the performance simply didn’t need props.
In sharp contrast, the stage play The Holy Sinner was an amazing production, with a great sound system, costumes, props, explosions, rain, structures, you name it…. However, this didn’t cover up the rather slim plot. The shock value of the “sinful” sexual relationship seemed contrived, and the atmosphere of Irish Catholic oppression was tired. Most of all I was surprised to find that it was a New Zealand play, I assumed that it was British or Irish….
The other highlights so far have been the Japanese opera “Tea”, and the awesome Antonio Forcione Quartet.
