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Lloyd's bank offline:

I'm in a rush, getting ready for a busy day.

I need to pay a bill online sharpish though.

Will some one tell Lloyds to reset their clocks, (and perhaps even their attitude), when they get chance please?

As you cab see from my computer clock it's actually 6.44 in the morning. But Lloyds think it's still sometime between 12:00 am and 4:00 am.

"Hello, Lloyds, is anybody there?"

Probably not.

If you get the impression that I'm less than impressed by my bank Lloyds, you'd be right.

(And I'm not the only one.)

Time to move on methinks.

Another great film from CommonCraft:

I really like what the chaps at CommonCraft are doing with their series of Web 2.0 tutorials.

Simple, to the point, well-written and entertaining, they cover most of the bases in an easy to follow, informative style.

They even do language translation, and offer transcripts, so a throughly good show all round.

Every Marking Director wanting to lean more about how the web works nowadays, or indeed who wants to bring employees up to speed, would do well to subscribe to these little beauties:

You can also see neat little tutorials on rss and wiki's here:

At the risk of becoming a FaceBook bore:

I have been blogging somewhat less recently, mainly because of the rise and rise of FB, and also due to some noodling around with Jaiku and Twitter.

But I hope to up the number of blog posts for a couple of reasons.

One; FaceBook will now automatically slurp in my new blog posts to my profile, so presumably more people will be able to read my stuff, should they so wish. (And hopefully, I'll get more bang for my blogging buck.)

Two: inexplicably, I'm getting more readers of my blog, even though I've recently been posting less.

Conversely though, my Technorati ranking has dropped somewhat over the last few months, bummer.

But conversely, on conversely, my Alexa rankings are up.

Now if you're a wonderfully gifted techie or SOE specialist, who sees the aforementioned quite plausible, perhaps you might explain the disconnect to me when you have a mo.

Alternatively, you may assume from my post, that I'm a total numptie, and beyond contempt.

To which I can only plead ignorance. (Nothing new there then.)

But by streaming my blog posts to FaceBook, productivity increases.

And it all seems to fit with the current mantra: 'Instead of return on investment, look for return on time.'

I'll keep you posted, via the blog, and now via FaceBook.

WooooHoooo.

I can't quite get my head around this:

There's a MySpace network of almost 3,000 people on FaceBook.

Is it me?

Or do you find this, er, odd?

Take it away Juanita*:

This is really terrific.

'A beginners guide to giving a damn about climate change', it's intelligent, funny, engaging and very persuasive stuff.

(I was also going to say too, that it's very, very hip. But luckily managed to stop myself just in time.)

Beautifully animated and art directed, it also has some absolutely killer lines; 'Check your tyres monthly, to avoid embarrassment.' is a pearler, amongst a whole string of belters*.

So as you you can see, I like it. I like it a lot.

Conceived, created and crafted by Airside and Mother.

It shows.

ps. Call me old fashioned but I was surprised the was no link to a web site or something. But the whole film is actually one 7 minute long call to action I guess.

pps.

There's a pretty cool T-Shirt in the Airside shop. (I actually like the back as much as the front, I think 070707 is a pretty cool 'strapline'. And should become the de-facto tag for all YouTube, delicious and Flickr sets to do with the subject methinks.)

But wouldn't it be great if you could get T-Shirts based on some of the film's graphics?

Maybe somebody should be talking to Threadless or Howies? (No disrespect to the Airside shop, but the available T-Shirt buying traffic on Threadless is probably huge. So from a logistical point of view maybe it better to off-load merchandising to them?)

Maybe you could specify the YouTube screen time of a particular frame in the movie and get a T-Shirt design based on it? (You could even offer S/M/L/XL/XXL/Al Gore sizes. Cruel I know.)

Here's the ones I'd order:

So, genuinely, I will take heed of what this film advocates.

And will give a damn enough to get my old bike into the workshop to get it pimped up for action. (A firm commitment/promise, will do it today.)

And I've ordered me and the Mrs a couple Airside T-Shirts.

And I'll avoid embarrassment by keeping both my bike and gas-guzzling vehicle tyres correctly inflated.

And I will seriously and honestly consider trading my admittedly gas-guzzling car in for something more planet friendly.

And I'll....to fade...muttering about possible demise of penis substitute car.)

Tour de Kent:

I'm in Kent this weekend watching the Tour de France whizz by my pals front gate.

Why I love FaceBook:

No apologies for being yet another blog to post about the phenomenal rise of FaceBook.

But you've got to love a web 2.0 property that has 28,000 members in a group called: 'If it's not from Yorkshire, it's shite.'

On discovering this group, I of course, signed up to it immediately.

FaceBook, and Jaiku are also partly responsible for fewer posts on my blog of late.

Sites that aggregate lots of Web 2.0 content in one place are becoming a kind of one-stop-shop for web users.

Consequently, some, (not all by any means though) bloggers are looking to social network sites to engage.

And consequently are spending less time tending their blogs.

Methinks an interesting shake-out is going on.

Me also thinks FaceBook is going to win big.