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meet dick and dom

 A friend introduced me to this video made for Tameside Young People’s Services (produced by JMG Media and the WISH media project) for their prevention of teen pregnancy campaign. Thought it might provide some inspiration for one of the looming community projects.

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me eat searches

 Om Nom nom nom today the Cookie Monster has been mostly eating google.co.uk searches rather than his staple diet. It’s all in aid of celebrating the 40th anniversary of Big Bird and chums. Can’t imagine what a wild party they’ll be having down Sesame Street tonight.

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out online?

 As part of my studies I have been introduced to First Monday which is one of the first peer-reviewed open access journals on the internet, about the internet. In an attempt to get to grips with quantitative (measurables) and qualitative (opinioned observation) research methods, our group has been tasked with reading October’s papers and analysing the approaches utilised. One study presented was Gaydar: Facebook friendships expose sexual orientation (Jernigan and Mistree 2009) especially as I had read coverage of the research and the privacy debates in the mainstream media in recent weeks. The research utilised the quantitative techniques to profile 4080 Facebook users within the MIT Facebook network. And hypothesis testing was…

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who’s the daddy?

 If you hadn’t already guessed I support the Manchester team (yes I know their home is in Trafford) – and well I’m not a born and bred Mancunian so it goes without saying!!! Therefore I wanted to take the opportunity to congratulate Mr Wayne Rooney and, the former queen of ASDA, Coleen Rooney on the birth of their first son Kai Wayne Rooney. The bookies are already offering 125-1 on whether Kai will play for United… after last nights performance at Old Trafford I’d get his boots ready for Chelski on Sunday. c/o toksuede licensed under Creative Commons.

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alter ego

 Now for those of you that have been paying attention you may have noticed I have been a little quiet on the Twitter front over the past couple of days. I know it’s not much of an excuse but at the end of last week I was kicking off my studies at the University of Salford and as part of the learning process I have introduced to the blogosphere my alter ego SocialBedia – (cue shameless plug) which maybe of interest to any of you folks into all things ‘web 2.0’. Do not fear I will be doing my best not to let rainycitytales get neglected and keeping my finger on the…

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me, myself and d.i

 Who am I? This might sound like an overwhelming philosophical question but as we increasingly tweet, blog, post cringeworthy photos of ourselves online (maybe all of these don’t apply to you!) etc. we are continually having to negotiate questions of identity. Who do we want seeing that drunken night out? Do we want our employers to know who we associate with? Should we befriend our colleagues on Facebook? Which ‘me’ we share with others in cyberspace is starting to get rather messy, as the boundaries become increasingly blurred over what constitutes ‘real life’. I know myself that I suffer from an online multiple personality disorder reserving different rules of engagement…

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testing, testing 1 2 3

 This is the humble beginnings of my new venture into the blogosphere. I am pleased that you have dropped by and I ensure you they’ll be some content here soon… * Custom header image c/o Adam Foster licensed under Creative Commons

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rainy city tails

 Well I’ve heard of the urban jungle… but the urban desert? This cheery duo is brought to you today c/o of my Spinningfields Spy. They were out creating some animal magic to promote easyJet’s new flight from Manchester to Marrakech.

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