New Media Mania

Nearly had a heart attack in my attempts to turn this blog’s default permalinks into “pretty” permalinks.

If you tried to access New Media Mania over the last couple of hours you may have come across some weird messages.

At one point I had the dreadful thought that I may have to start from scratch!

Anyway, I figured it out in the end, which is what the brave new world of new media communications is all about.

Figuring it out and taking baby steps without a budget was the main thrust of my presentation yesterday to the Thai chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).

FEEDJIT Live – Updating in Real-Time.

Just installed and now testing “Press This” in WordPress on my ‘New Media Mania’ blog: http://www.newmediamania.com

My neat little blog traffic widget FEEDJIT is honorary acting Guinea pig.

I’ve been a little too busy (lazy) to post to this blog over the last couple of weeks.

So I thought I’d take a minute to test TwitterFeed and see how this blog post makes it into my Twitter feed and then, in turn, into my Facebook and Plaxo profiles.

Sad excuse for a blog post?

Probably. But this is New Media Mania: And a Gen Xer’s (lame?) attempts to understand Y!

It’ll be even more tragic if it doesn’t work …

… to learn as much as I can about new media.

And as technology evolves ever faster, the hill only gets steeper.

Fortunately, for those of us who actually use these media, its almost too easy.

It’s as natural to young kids today as it was me plugging in my Tandy TRS-80 (pictured) to play “Dino Wars” (Beware: clicking the Dino Wars link will yield very little information about the game!)

This blog, for example, took a couple of minutes to set up. (However, I did spend a lot of time “umming” and “ahhing” over which design template I should use! … and ended up with the default theme.) [Since changed.]

Setting up’s one thing. Maintaining is quite another.

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