Very cool 16 minute long video of MLK delivering his speech in Washington in 1963. Beautiful cadence in his speech patterns. An amazingly substantive speech and one which took enormous courage when you bear in mind what was going on in the States at time. Take the time and have a look.
Video from last week of the plane landing in the Hudson. The plane can be seen from two minutes in, coming in from the left hand side of the screen. Everyone gets out on to the wings pretty much immediately and then a couple of mins later the boats arrive to pick them up. All in all an amazing story.
This post is just testing out the feedflare option on Feedburner which enables a range of social bookmark functionality for your blog posts when being read in RSS readers. If you use AddThis or ShareThis buttons they do not show up in the RSS page (not in mine anway – GoogleReader and NetNewsWire. I have now added the feedflare functionality to my feed (you can also add it to your website by changing the templates, as long as you host the site yourself). So from this point forward readers should be able to see the various social bookmarking options in whatever reader they are using. Which will look something like the picture below.
Feedflare options at the bottom of blog post
Adding in QR codes for you social networks on Snappr
Snappr is a service that allows you to create 2D QR codes. Seems quite cool – but Im still trying to figure out exact uses for it. On Snappr you can create your own QR code linked to say for example your social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter etc.. you can also add in codes for text messages (160 Chars), contact details, websites addresses (wahtever you want really), as well as Music files and images. So all the information is encoded in the QR code. Im presuming you need a reader of some sort to interpret the image. There seems to be a movement towards embedding these codes on bags, fashion, public places. Its interesting anyway. Go check it out and comment back with any updates. Id be very interested to hear what people know and have used them for. I saw an article in Mashable by Dana Oshiro Have a read of it, it proposes 5 uses for the Qr code.
The image below is a QR code for my Twitter link
Keith Feighery 's Twitter QR Code
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