To Twitter or Not To Twitter - Simple

Love facebook? Do you Tweet? If you don't, please read this article in Don't Panic.

Facebook is fine but how many bank/credit cards do you have? How many pairs of shoes. Hopefully more than one and if you don't, you are probably intending to have a second as soon as you can afford them? It makes sense to have a spare doesn't it?

Well it makes sense for us to have a spare social networking link. Again, an old wives tale has an origin of sense: Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Yes, Facebook is great but in many ways, Tweeting is greater. The new wives tale is "Facebook is for the people you were at school with and Twitter is for the people you wish you'd been at school with."

There is some level of truth to that at the moment and Facebook is charging up behind Twitter to have a similar connection but right now Twitter has the lead. You have a level of communication with people you would love to meet and it's also a good networking site.

This month I've been able to link up an artist in Wales with a developer in Holland and someone who had spare back-drop fabic with a designer who needed some. They live in the same town but their paths may never have crossed.

The frustration being that they didn't all Tweet so I was the go-between.

So many creatives do not Tweet yet. They have enough to do without PRing themselves and they are not always as handy with a computer as their own tools.

I'm running quick workshops which help the interested, but overwhelmed, to get a basic presence on Twitter. If you Tweet please take a Twitter nervous creative to their laptop for half an hour, and do the same.

It's a little confusing to the non-computer savvy but it's worth it. And for as long as Facebook doesn't own Twitter. It makes independent sense.

The Simplest Words Can Be Multi-Talented

Why use big words when the small ones have enough meanings to keep us going?
This beautiful video from RADIOLAB takes us through nine words and illustrates some of their everyday usage. All variations of each word are spelt the same except break/brake.

There's a melt between words as a new word is introduced. 

Clever. 

It took me a few viewings, and a quick scroll through the helpful comments below the video, to get it but you may get it in one! 

The English language, aren't the short words illustrative enough?

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It's An Out Of The Ordinary Festival

We're lucky in the UK. We have dozens of brilliant festivals. Whatever our music tastes, there's a chance there's a festival to cater for it (RIP Glade you are missed). The big music festivals are pretty hectic and we could often do with a rest when we get home. If the partying doesn't get us then the miles of trudging round the site can.
Ready for a little down time? Have you discovered Out of the Ordinary Festival (OOTO)? It's is a "three day eco and family friendly festival set in the beautiful Sussex Countryside celebrating the Autumn Equinox," 17th to 19th September inclusive.
To give you an idea how these guys practice the art of making life simple ... one ticket purchasing option is to just text them. (Oh that Glastonbury was small enough to do that).
To give you an idea of what you can expect, here's the 2009 promo video.



Thee OOTO site has details of what is happening this year. Out of the Ordinary, keeping festivals simple.





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A Potted Case For Legalising Marijuana

After all the extensive research, reports, thousands of words written, read and spoken and debates in parliament. Here we have it all in one small three and a half minute animation: