jamescamerongray

25 November 2009

I had a great evening tonight at SBTUG, the Sydney Business Technology Users Group. Laurel Papworth gave a great presentation on Social Media which is one of my pet interests. Most of us use some form of social media but a lot less would know how to use it effectively for business. If you can ever get along to one of her presentations or get into one of her one day workshops I would highly recommend it. Failing that she also has her Social Media Business podcast series available on iTunes or from her website.

27 August 2009

For some time now I have been wondering how I can improve my online presence with a view to aiding my prospects in a dimished job market. Like all good web monkeys I am in the never ending process of creating a resume/portfolio site I had thought that I was up against some firly stiff competition with the brand of ‘James Gray’. There’s James Gray (director of motion pictures), James Gray (MP for North Wiltshire) and James Gray (compser) for starters. Adding my middle name to the mix only makes the situation worse thanks to that fellow James Cameron, suffice to say there are a good deal of James Grays in the world.

I’d largely stopped worrying about it when I spotted that my recent signup to Sydney Cyclist had resulted in my page there landing at number 5 on Google when searching my name. There may be hope for my little site yet! Now to figure out what it is that this community site has that Google likes and leverage it to push my page up the rankings. I’ve had some SEO success in the past with top 10 Google search results in the past, lets try and remember those lessons and apply them here. Stay tuned.

5 Sickening habits of mainstream websites. 29 November 2008

I dont think I’m guilty of any of these. Yet.

http://www.techcult.com/5-sickening-habits-of-mainstream-websites/

Small computer, more RAM. 7 July 2008

I recently gave my HP Mini Note a much needed boost by doubling the RAM from 1 to 2 gb. The procedure was pretty straightforward, I followed the video tutorial over at laptopmag.com, installing a single 2gb stick. The procedure was over in 5 minutes, the only stressful part was trying to prise the keyboard off, just take it slowly and there should be no problems. The results are good, particularly when jumping around between apps but the video performance is still below par. That said it is still my favourite laptop to grab when I want to check the news or email.

When is Bart Simpson due to become a high court judge? 3 July 2008

It might take until then for the judiciary to get a clue about social media. A US judge has ordered Google to hand over ALL Youtube user logs to Viacom in what can only be viewed as a move against the end user and a massive breach of privacy. There is even comment that such an order is illegal under US law. On top of that he rejected their request to have access ot the Youtube source code which, when you consider the number of Youtube clones out there and Adobe’s ownership of the core flash technologies, is ‘about as valuable as the hard drive it’s delivered on’. I think Eric Schonfeld over at Techcrunch has it right when he suggests that Google should deliver the 12 terabytes of log files in hardcopy. I’ll help print it.

Word of the day. 1 July 2008

And the word of the day is QUIET. Not Quite, Q U I E T. I have a hard enough time restraining myself when I see the use of quite instead of quiet in an email or forum post but hey, spell check lets it through and it can be easy to mistype something. When I see multiple instances of it from one source on a real estate website, all these houses in ‘quite locations’ i see red. Stop murdering the English language!