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New BlogAugust 2 2008

Since changing Dancing About Architecture to being just about social media, I have missed blogging about life and general stuff.  So like all insane bloggers, I have created a new blog Rainbow of Chaos.

So if you are missing reading my random thoughts, please go and sign up for my new blog’s feed.

At the moment, it is just a Wordpress.com blog, but I am finding myself getting myself annoyed at the limitations of the free Wordpress blogs and the horrible free themes, that I may soon change it over to a self-hosted version.

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How to be Everywhere in Social MediaJuly 26 2008

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One of the most challenging things about being involved in social media is the number of tools you have to keep track of.  You have Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, Linked In, You Tube,  Last.FM, MySpace, Identi.ca, Brightkite and many, many more.

So how do you keep track of them all and remember to keep them all updated?

The Puck has written an amazing article called Ten Steps to Being Everywhere in Social Media and it is well worth a read.  Through his article I discovered the site, Profilactic which has given me the great list in my sidebar containing all the places I can be found online.  It puts all your streams and that of your friends in one handy place, but unlike FriendFeed, you can not comment on your friends’ posts.

Also, I have found the AdobeAir application SocialAddict which pulls through the mobile version of 11 of the most popular social networking site and puts them into one handy desktop application

The Social Media Love-InJuly 25 2008

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Darren from Problogger held a Social Media Love-In at the beginning of this week where he encouraged all of his readers to post links to all the social networking tools that they use and to friend other comments.  It was a huge success.  Darren and his trusty assistant Lara then complied a list of 538 Problogger readers that use Twitter and has since done similar lists for StumbleUpon and Digg users.

My inbox has been swamped with notifications of people who are now following me on Twitter and Plurk and I have been having a great time checking out their blogs and reading their tweets and plurks.

Darren’s social media love-in has proven the immense power that social networking sites can have in connecting people

Ratified WinnerJuly 13 2008

I was checking my incoming links this morning and there was one from http://australia.ratified.org/rati/winners so I decided to see what it was all about.

According to Ratified, I am today’s winner for the biggest jump in the Ratified ratings moving up 51 places from 136 to 85. I am not entirely sure what this means, if anything, but still it was nice to see my blog at number one for something. It has given my Monday morning a nice happy glow.

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Have nuns taken up the blogging habit?July 11 2008

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I am being stalked by nuns.  It is Catholic World Youth Day in Sydney next week and the Pope will be coming to town, thus Sydney is starting to fill up with Catholic pilgrims from around the world including lots of nuns.  In a city where it is rare to see a nun to now seeing them everywhere is very strange.  It feels like I have stepped into a parallel Catholic world.  But there is one group of nuns who I swear are stalking me.  They are a group of young nuns from Tennessee who got on my bus the other morning to travel into the City.  We said hello and chatted briefly about Catholic World Youth Day.  Now, I keep seeing them everywhere - in a city full of nuns.  It is starting to freak me out and I think I am being to develop a touch of cloisterphobia.

Seeing all these young nuns around town got me wondering about whether these nuns are blogging about their lives and in particular if we have any blogger nuns attending World Youth Day.

A quick search has revealed the blog and twitter of Sister Julie who writes A Nun’s