June 2008
The Archives
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06.30.08Vote for my image on this weeks Wired photo contestThis week they're running a contest with images of food. So I submitted this one: "One mistake and this turns into scrambled eggs" If you like it you can click yourself over to Wired and vote it up. Right now (as of June 30. @15:15 CET) it is at top. w00t! :-) And by the way, you can only submit one vote.
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06.26.08The ironyI'm using Feedburner to insert occational ads to my feed and to the end of some of my blog posts. It's mainly part of the experimenting I do here on eirikso.com. I want experience with adsense, feedburner, affiliate programs and so on. And sometimes it adds a bit of fun that I don't have complete control of the ads that show up. My last article asked the question "Where's the big money?" One of my readers sends me a screenshot where the ad has answered the question. I don't know if you have noticed, but with my last redesign I removed the adsense ...
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06.24.08Web TV is a hit. So where’s the big money?Regular readers have noticed that I have had way too much to do lately. How would you know? Because this blog has been updated about once a week this spring. I don't like that because I love the community of people reading this publication and all the interesting people I meet because of my blog. I have absolutely no plan of discontinuing eirikso.com, so hang in there. I will keep on posting interesting stuff here. Still, I can recommend subscribing to the feed or email update. As you understand you won't be overloaded... Right now I popped by to give you a ...
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06.04.08Free music for your productionsRecently I asked my twitter friends if they had any favourite places for finding music that can be used in podcasts and productions on the internet. Here's the result: Jamendo About 10 000 albums. Lots of creative commons licensed. Modern design. Pretty good search and useful tag cloud. Owlmm Fantastic search engine that you can feed with some of your own music to let it find similar music. And narrow your search to give Creative Commons licensed music. Podsafeaudio Lots of creative commons licensed music. Podsafe music from Uhørt Lots of creative commons licensed music and even soundtracks. Update: Wikimedia Commons Large archive of images, video and audio. And of course a ...
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06.04.08What to do if you are nervous when presentingPhoto: Borut Peterlin / Mladina The quick answer: tell the audience! An actor once told me that it's only one thing that's worse than being nervous on stage. And that's sitting in the audience watching a nervous person on the stage. Knowing that sounds scary. But it's not. It means that the audience want you to feel fine. They feel sorry for you and want to do everything they can to help you. So, I want to add something to that last part. The thing that's worse than being nervous on stage is sitting in the audience watching a person that tries to ...