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Quick update

March 17 2007
by Rachel

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I’ve spent some serious time in bed this last week and a bit and blogging has been the last thing on my mind as I’ve had little energy. However, a quick update on what I’ve been doing:

  • Autopatcher: working with Andrew from the Autopatcher team on an alternate site to their main one. The application is actually quite cool and enables people to speed up their Windows updates, especially if they have multiple computers.
  • BurnzPost: This lively new group blog which was “created as a dispatcher of passionate opinions for the greater good of humankind”.
  • Throng updates: the site is getting us more and more press and television networks and production houses are getting on board which is exciting.
  • Psychsplash updates: Gareth is full of new ideas for updating his blog and I’ve been helping him make those a reality.
  • Trendy updates: the site keeps growing and growing and is soon to launch in another city. I’ve been updating things behind the scenes and adding new features.

I’m also working on a number of other projects which haven’t yet been made public but it’s always exciting to see how people are using blogging in new ways.

Adam Walker Cleaveland sent me a note about his new free WordPress theme based on his own blog which you can grab here.

I’ve updated my free theme but it’s not quite ready for my next blog post. I lost my computer due to theft recently which was annoying, and just before I’d backed up my part 2 of the WordPress screencast (grr!) so that is going to have to wait for a while as I’m off to Melbourne end of next week for a workshop and mini-shopping-holiday!

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One of the most loyal early-adopters on our TV community website Throng is a 14 year old guy called “Tui” from Taranaki. Over the weekend, he discovered the “secret” URL for the new TVNZ digital delivery TV service called ondemand, set to launch later this month. While no media had been granted access to the site, Tui got in and wrote an incredible review of TVNZ’s ondemand and got the scoop on how it all works.

Needless to say, the lack of password or other such protection of the service was fixed this morning and the opportunity for anyone to check out the site was lost. Actually, he just messaged me before to say he’d found parts of it still weren’t protected.

He did a great job, so if you’re interested in finding out more about TVNZ’s ondemand, check out his review and possibly digg it.

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