tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9275399561144327832012-02-16T10:23:00.876ZTerrynoreply@blogger.comBlogger441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-58552892995637543452009-10-13T16:54:00.004+01:002009-10-13T17:03:51.126+01:00

I'm, shutting this blog down and moving to this one. It will contain the usual stuff you're used to on this blog but hopefully a little more frequently. It would be great if you updated your feeds/likes accordingly. Hope to see you there.http://terryduffelen.wordpress.com/

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-32694814905428501292009-08-25T11:43:00.002+01:002009-08-25T11:45:39.036+01:00

In my ever growing quest to improve myself (not to mention my job prospects) I am studying  SEO or SEM or PPC or whatever it's called. I'm also set to train myself in all things Wordpress so I can hold a conversation with a tech for a few seconds longer than the sixteen that I can manage now. To that end I've set up a little blog about the forthcoming Vuelta a Espana (or Tour Of Spain if you

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-38819857093275603782009-07-21T13:14:00.001+01:002009-07-21T13:14:29.133+01:00

Online poll services are two a penny right? They're a popular method of generating sticky content for a website and good for fostering or generating online communities. At present, there aren't that many online poll generators which are designed to take advantage of Social Media's natural strengths when it come to crowd sourcing. Which is why uPoll has an excellent chance of leading the way

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-50072478803280598332009-07-18T18:37:00.001+01:002009-07-18T18:37:30.931+01:00

This Spotify playlist features a selection of tracks from soundtracks to James Bond films that were not composed by the great John Barry. Barry is the musical maestro behind the Bond movies. His arrangement of Monty Norman's James Bond is definitive and his contribution to the sub-gnre genre is unquestioned. He composed the music for no less than 11 Bond movies.  His final score was for The

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-88925154363302498242009-07-16T12:17:00.002+01:002009-07-16T12:21:18.337+01:00

This latest app for the iPhone 3GS uses GPS and the built in camera to help you navigate around the New York Subway system. You hold up the phone and it points you in the right direction with on-screen graphics. It's developed by Acrossair who are also working on a London Underground equivalent plus the Twitter app TwittaRound which uses that same technology to help you locate Twitter users in

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-57696231601909392432009-07-10T12:43:00.001+01:002009-07-10T12:43:21.112+01:00

The highly anticipated Reboot Britain took place last Monday. The conference, organised by NESTA, was created to set the agenda for how governments use social media to engage, provide services and engage with people. From what I could see the conference was populated by consultants, civil servants, local governments officers, the odd politician (including the ubiquitous Tom Watson) and social

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-87510229957175725702009-07-06T20:03:00.001+01:002009-07-06T20:03:18.400+01:00

  Download now or listen on posterous Craig Newmark.mp4 (6448 KB) Posted via email from redduffman

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  Download now or listen on posterous Bonar.mp4 (2392 KB) Posted via email from redduffman

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-69851701043820836462009-07-01T13:32:00.003+01:002009-07-07T17:48:59.996+01:00

I went to Canada House last Friday for the Global networks, local action: transforming communities with social media (Twitter hashtag #g2g). I thought I'd add a few thoughts about what I learned there. While it was an insightful meeting I don't remember there being a great deal of discussion about "transforming communities" or "local action". Lovisa Williams from the US State Department is

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-19471011235916411992009-06-12T14:52:00.003+01:002009-06-12T14:53:17.207+01:00

Listen!

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I'm getting really excited about Google Wave. This is a new communications tool combining conventional messaging and social media concepts to create an open source platform that allows you to share media, collaborate on projects and just plain talk to each other.The video below is a demo of the application and is worth having a look at. It looks incredibly powerful and Google have already handed

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-26741164825924340312009-06-04T11:10:00.004+01:002009-06-04T11:19:21.553+01:00

I've been mucking about with Spotify and have produced a playlist of some of my favorite sci fi movie themes and incidental music.You'll need Spotify to access them (it's free) but I hope you enjoy my selection which features the musical talents of Messrs Goldsmith, Williams, Horner and others. Plus, of course, the legendary Geoff Love and his Orchestra.Click here to listen to Red Duffman's Space

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-38126601636474181182009-05-21T16:54:00.001+01:002009-05-21T16:54:28.427+01:00

I'm not sure how I feel about the whole @reply controversy (#twitterfail or #fixreplies). There is no question that my Twitter stream is a lot quieter these days. I find myself wondering what and who I'm missing out on as people I follow chunter away with others I don't know. Visible direct replies were like a door that would swing open to allow a brief glimpse of what was happening in the

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-40802941847431258422009-05-14T09:24:00.002+01:002009-05-14T09:27:58.527+01:00

If, like me, you're an iPod Touch owner you may find yourself suffering from iPhone Envy. That is the feeling of mild irritation that you can't make phone calls. However, there are a couple of applications for the Touch that allow you to use it as a phone. Both apps require WiFi and both are free, although you will need to shell out for microphone.SkypeThe daddy of Internet phone calls comes to

Terrynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-82816845022456394802009-04-21T23:48:00.002+01:002009-04-21T23:54:07.861+01:00

I am writing this post downstairs in the living room while watching a cracking football match on the telly. That in itself is not terribly impressive (I'm just trying to establish a setting). However, the reason why I'm writing this post at all is because I'm using Gmail on  Posterous as opposed to a traditional CMS like Blogger or Wordpress. There are those who believe that the days of the

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-45424561094475138052009-04-17T16:18:00.016+01:002009-04-17T18:46:18.774+01:00

I've been trying to imagine that if Twitter was a sport, what sport would it be? I figured it would have to take place in short bursts. It would also have to be direct and have the qualities required of all good sports. That is being really interesting and engaging or crushingly boring and mundane at any moment.  One essential component would have to be that it must be completely impenetrable to

Terrynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-59966513171997660822009-04-13T23:43:00.002+01:002009-04-15T00:02:47.599+01:00

The tradition of movies made from UK TV sitcoms is long and inglorious. Off the top of the head, Dad's Army, Are You Being Served, Bless This House and the On The Buses never really successfully crossed the bridge from cathode to celluloid.The Thick Of It however, is more than your average half hour sitcom. It is a much more intense, thoughtful and I'm bound to say intelligent proposition

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-85463042134942445312009-04-02T19:09:00.010+01:002009-04-02T22:25:34.518+01:00

Birmingham City University has launched a Masters Degree in Social Media.This course is designed for the end user academic with no IT background. he aim is to build and develop networks using the usual S & M tools that we all know and love (or hate). Students will learn how to use Social Networking within a business context. This includes low cost marketing and PR. It will also teach people about

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-46448853845582283192009-03-04T16:41:00.007Z2009-03-04T21:43:04.679Z

I plan to write a fawning tribute to the World Football Phone in on Radio Five Live for SPAOTP during the close season when things are quieter. However, having just listened to the latest edition I had to post the following mash-up composed by 'Kalou' which was featured on the show. For the sake of completion, its only fair to include the programme's unofficial theme tune by Real Sounds Of

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-39060968084868473232009-02-20T10:34:00.006Z2009-02-20T14:39:58.392Z

Back in the day, Palace’s former manager Steve Coppell referred to his boss and club chairman Ron Noades as an ‘enlightened despot’. One could easily say the same about the current chairman and owner, Simon Jordan.The former mobile phone salesman and entrepreneur rescued the club from oblivion at the beginning of the decade when Palace were on the brink of liquidation. He has pumped millions of

Terrynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-83757885248109053422009-02-18T01:07:00.001Z2009-02-18T01:07:57.120Z

My jaw is still firmly on the floor after Palace’s staggering away win at Plymouth tonight.I can't say that Plymouth is a club that I have a special affinity with. I seem to recall passing through the place on a National Express coach when I was a kid. They also were the club who employed Peter Shilton as manger in the nineties. Shilton is not a character I have a great deal of time for because

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-38572091558545040592009-02-16T22:52:00.005Z2009-02-16T23:04:44.512Z

To the best of my knowledge, Crystal Palace have never had a Nike strip.I stand to be corrected but I reckon they remain one of the few kit manufacturers yet to give their own interpretation of the 'famous red & blue'. I'm pretty certain that Umbro haven't produced a kit for us either (although I really may be wrong about that).I must confess I have considerable misgivings about Nike. There have

Terrynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-64455918752995993852009-02-14T11:36:00.004Z2009-02-14T12:19:22.985Z

I loath music reviews. I can't stand the constant need to shoe horn in bullshit metaphors that reak of self-importance and pretension. Therefore this post is more of an observation than a review.I've known Robert White for so long that any music he produces will be so bound up by my own affection for the man that it would be impossible to be objective about anything he creates. In this instance

Terrynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-73486860931648622042009-02-02T20:31:00.006Z2009-02-03T16:22:20.242Z

Roseanna is the first in the Decalog 'The Story Of A Crime' written by left wing husband and wife partners Sjowall & Wahloo featuring the famous Swedish detective Martin Beck. The title character is an American tourist holidaying in Sweden who is raped and murdered on a pleasure cruise.Martin Beck is the cop who has to find the murderer. The story is partly about sexuality in 1960's Sweden and

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-12254515161440846722009-01-29T17:14:00.007Z2009-01-29T17:41:57.392Z

Lets be honest, its been a really cold winter. A hateful season. I'm not one to complain about the cold but by Christ this was different.At least that what I have been telling myself. For you see by blaming the weather I absolve myself of the depressingly familiar feeling of guilt and self loathing for not having taken my new bike out.So far my Tour Of Croydon has not gone so well. The route I

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-25043459972662470712009-01-05T10:21:00.001Z2009-01-05T10:23:26.727Z

Excessive Public Transport fare increases are undemocratic.Every year prices go up higher than the cost of living, commuters get angry, refuse to accept that the increase is justifiable, but adjust their budgets accordingly and pay.Or do they? How many are forced to take jobs closer to home because they can no longer afford to pay their travel costs. Worse, how many young people have entered the

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-30394655386563012332008-12-31T18:47:00.008Z2008-12-31T19:09:11.700Z

My new bike. on 12seconds.tvThe Tour Of Croydon is a series of routes that I will take on my bike throughout the year exploring this notorious town as I struggle back to some semblance of fitness.The first route is ludicrously easy. A round trip to South Croydon Railway Station from my street. It would take roughly ten minutes to walk this very short circuit. However, I guarantee that I will be

Terrynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-56855797681356453952008-12-22T21:23:00.010Z2008-12-27T20:01:28.054Z

A list of things I must do in 2009.1. Exercise more: Buy a bike and take up dancing lessons with the missus.2. Listen to less podcasts. Only play podcasts on the way into work not on the way home. This leaves more time for...3. Read more books. Its shocking how few books I've read in 2008. It takes me ages to read books because of all the writing I do at home and listening to podcasts on the

Terrynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-87880747285180136812008-12-18T21:07:00.013Z2008-12-18T22:01:23.303Z

Five times World Champion Raymond van Barneveld is one of the sport's great icons. Four of his titles were in the BDO and won at the Lakeside. However, the rise of the PDC and the challenge posed by Phil Taylor proved to strong and he made the switch early in 2006 with an automatic birth in the lucrative Premier League.Van Barneveld is Holland's most successful and popular player. Bringing him

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-71953289656021163752008-12-18T11:30:00.003Z2008-12-18T11:39:24.046Z

My latest hair-brained scheme is the 140er. It’s like the Fiver only not as good, long or funny. The 140er is a round up of the of the day's football news in 140 characters.Hopefully over time it will become a sharp witted, pithy and above all brief news round-up that will become a part of football loving Twitterers daily routine.I'm going to use @onionbag because it fits and because I'm aware

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-84495474223845496932008-12-16T16:13:00.010Z2008-12-18T21:51:21.514Z

At 25, James Wade is very much a child of the PDC. One of the games rising stars Wade would have grown up watching the likes of Phil Taylor and Dennis Priestley playing PDC darts after it moved to Sky in the early 90’s.His rise to the top was competed in 2006 when he reached the final of the World Matchplay in Blackpool where he lost to Taylor (five words you will read a lot on these pages.

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-1056285170222504332008-12-15T21:55:00.018Z2008-12-18T21:50:56.388Z

The current World Champion is from Oshawa in Canada. He first rose to prominence in 1994 when he won the BDO World Championship at the lakeside. With the Darts world split into two organisations and with the greatest prize money and TV coverage, not to mention Phil Taylor, at the PDC Part made the move across the darting divide in 1997.He rose through the PDC ranks and faced Taylor in the World

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-38275829293540238172008-12-14T23:27:00.009Z2008-12-16T17:33:59.237Z

On Friday, the best players from around the globe (well most of them at least) will assemble at Alexandra Palace in north London to compete for the PDC World Darts Championship. The tournament will be televised live on Sky. The event is the culmination of a year of ranking tournaments that has seen 13 times World Champion and darting legend Phil 'The Power' Taylor (right) return to prominence

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-26503991429555993032008-12-12T09:17:00.010Z2008-12-12T10:07:20.775Z

(India v England first test)I've just watched England's Graham Swann take two wickets in his first over on his test match debut. Taking two wickets in an over is a tough enough proposition for anyone but for a debutant.His first every ball was a loose one which Gambhir dispatched for four. After seeing that my heart dropped down a setting or two. The sight of a test bowler (especially English)

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-13105375995581109822008-12-05T10:19:00.001Z2008-12-05T10:21:44.424Z

At the beginning of the football season I set up a Twitter account called Pressffive. The idea was to bring live text updates (live blogging if you like) into the Twitterverse.For those who do not know, there are any number of live match commentaries by sports website designed to describe the action unfolding at a football match. Anyone stuck at work or otherwise unable to watch a game can

Terrynoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-47672721364583167612008-11-27T15:14:00.017Z2008-11-28T00:35:14.993Z

I don’t have a problem with Twitter being used as a new source. After all it’s simply another form of communication like TV, Internet, phone, two cups strung together etc . The value or worth of what it produces is entirely down to the person yelling into the cup.I'm frequently #Mumbai on Twitter. The full extent and scale of the horror is yet to be fully realised. However, it has provided an

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-83461448635049487002008-11-25T21:56:00.000Z2008-11-25T21:56:52.092Z

It began in 2004. I was working as a Fleet Manager for a in car security firm in Mitcham. The MD had a 1964 Routemaster bus (It was an RMC 1496 actually) parked up in the one of the hangers and for reason's I won't bore you with I was charged with trying to get an MOT for the beast. This proved to be an amazingly difficult task. The local DfT centre kept failing it (presumably they didn't want

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-56899602417881148302008-11-25T16:39:00.002Z2008-11-25T16:41:11.792Z

And it was wicked.That is all.

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-39834810841009094722008-11-23T22:59:00.013Z2008-11-24T00:06:29.778Z

I've just finished writing an Onion Bag about William Gallas. This piece maintains that the reason why the Arsenal skipper has blown a gasket once again is because he still has yet to see Quantum Of Solace. The piece is semi-autobiographical.I should qualify that last sentence by pointing out that I am not professional footballer. However, it has been three weeks and I have still not seen the

Terrynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-26603178552898020112008-11-22T17:41:00.014Z2008-11-22T18:39:23.683Z

I had this discussion with Castro a couple of months ago one hungover morning in Cologne. The pair of us are obsessed with zombies and both spend much of our time plotting our plan of action were a zombie outbreak to occur at any moment.I posited the theory that one way of defeating zombies is with maggots. I got the idea from an episode of House where they used them to get rid of all this burnt

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-56674549190180356652008-11-20T18:16:00.002Z2008-11-20T18:19:47.097Z

The first in what may prove to be a disturbingly regular series.Should I open this? on 12seconds.tv

Terrynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-35268887574406349812008-11-20T10:33:00.007Z2008-11-20T10:43:10.527Z

Having said that, you've got to love that Roy Budd music score.

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-20846246036340770312008-11-20T08:41:00.007Z2008-11-20T14:54:16.480Z

John Terry that is as the following headline reveals:TERRY SPARES CARSON'S BLUSHESI didn't read the article as I was concerned about the message I'd be sending to the young woman who's paper it was (mind you I've always thought that Metros ever belonged to anyone). However, if I infer from the headline that the blame for Germany's hilarious equlaiser against England in last night's actually quite

Terrynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927539956114432783.post-82195111540459055272008-11-19T23:19:00.002Z2008-11-19T23:35:32.833Z

Anything that comes out of my brain which won't fit in to The Onion Bag, Some People Are On The Pitch, Some People Are On The Telly or cannot be squeezed into 140 characters will go here.

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0