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I've made the source feed for datashaman.com point to the items on work.datashaman.com. There's a lot more activity on that stream than this one. This site will most likely be decommissioned soon. If you would like to subscribe directly to the Data Shaman @ Work feed, point your RSS reader to feeds.feedburner.com/datashaman-work. As soon as I saw the posting about Twittorati launching soon, I logged on to have a look. Here's a snapshot of the home page.  Twitterati Home Page Firstly, hasn't Twitter recently started making noises about the use of the term Twitter within product names? Being forced to change the name post-launch could be very embarrassing. Nice big links for everything. Not so sure they've got the navigation right though. If you click on the first link, Tweets, it takes you to the home page, titled: 'Top Blogs on Twitter'. Doesn't seem like there's an intuitive match between link and title there. They're trying to blur the line between Twitter and blogs, to maximize any influence they have from the existing Technorati platform, I'd say. Clever move. But I'm not so sure that Technorati has as much influence as it used to have. Everything is a subset of what you'd find on Twitter. The trending hashtags are for the top 100 bloggers only. The trending Technorati tags are from the top 100 bloggers only. The search function on the site will show you only results from their top 100 Twitterati. They only list the top 100. Only show blog posts from the top 100.  Search results for 'Scobleizer' Sorry, scobleizer! The Latest Photos link shows you the latest photos from the top 100 bloggers.  Latest Photos from the top 100 Bloggers I don't think this will be all that successful. Visiting the site is like going to a club and being denied entrance because it's for VIPs only. Or reading (an admittedly more intelligent) Heat magazine, where you get to see what the famous and oh-so popular are up to and into. It's an isolationary move, it's an exclusive move, and I don't like it, personally. IMO, if I wanted to use the site for anything it would be to find out what's popular in my area of interest. But I'd do that once, maybe twice, subscribe to the suggested blog and/or Twitter feed and probably not come back. There are so many ranking sites out there, listing people's influence on Twitter. Technorati lists blogs by their own influence algorithm, which they're leveraging on this site. Real-time search engines are to be found in many forms all over the web. Perhaps I'm stupid, but when I first logged on, I went straight to the search, entered my own twitter account name and came up with nothing (obviously). After browsing around it dawned on me that this site was for the elite only, and I was disappointed. Yet another club I can't join... The tagline for the site is inappropriate in this respect: Where the blogosphere and twittersphere meet should read: Where the blogosphere and twittersphere of the top 100 bloggers meet or: Where the snobosphere and twittersphere meet (I like this one) Twitter updates for the day. Twitter updates for the day. This is spooky! A driver's awareness test that illustrates how much we don't see, and it does it extremely well. Please wait for the full video to load before watching it, it's quite important to the enjoyment of the piece! Video gaming is not all just about fun and games. There's a dark side, and I don't mean Star Wars. You've heard of RSI, but have you heard of Duke Nukem's Disease? Watch and learn. Fore-warned is fore-armed. 
Eppelsauce Music is a record label, music agency and recording studio rolled into one. The record label specializes in African music from across the continent from traditional Malian and Zimbabwean music to modern Afro Pop and Afro House. All of the albums and artists released by Eppelsauce Music are produced in the shadow of Table Continue reading Eppelsauce Music I should probably be sleeping now, but I'm so moved by the news of Michael Jackson's death that I can't yet. This is just so funny that it had to be put up on my blog. I wanna keep it forever. Want an easily installed ISO which provides a Centos server installation with statistics gathering, hardware monitoring with an attractive frontend for your systems? Giving WordPress some love!  Cocolure is the latest creative initiative to come out of Woodstock, Cape Town's artistic hub. This small studio specialises in illustration, DTP, photo retouching and design. They wanted a web presence so that they could expand their client base beyond the local market. Shoppers at a clothing store are in for a surprise! Check it out, quite funny. Watch Bonnie Tyler and friends in the Literal Version of Total Eclipse of I've decided to at least put something a bit more palatable up in place of the previous site I had. That green was starting to get on my nerves.  Kitch.Inc is an owner managed business based in Woodstock, Cape Town. They specialise in the design, manufacture and installation of custom kitchens. We developed a site showcasing their creations, and opening avenues for new business. |
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