Anyway here are some interesting pieces of information relating to the changed role of the mobile phone:

• ‘When is a phone not a phone? In the hands of children and tweens, today’s cell phones are primarily used as text messaging devices, cameras, gaming consoles, video viewers, MP3 players, and incidentally, as mobile phones via the speaker capability so their friends can chime in on the call.’ via A Pocket Guide to Social Media and Kids | Nielsen Wire.
• ‘According to Lyra Research, an international market research firm, camera phone shipments will exceed one billion units per year in 2011. And, they also state that by late 2008 or early 2009, the cumulative number of camera phones shipped will surpass the cumulative number of both conventional and digital cameras shipped in the entire history of photography — and camera phones have been on the market for less than a decade. In 2007 Nokia sold almost 200 million camera phones.’ via Camera Phones – First phone, first camera
• ‘Texting re-creates the brief, frequent, spontaneous ‘connections’ with members of our social network that characterised the small communities of pre-industrial times. Texting re-creates the brief, frequent, spontaneous ‘connections’ with members of our social network that characterised the small communities of pre-industrial times. via Evolution, Alienation and Gossip: The role of mobile telecommunications in the 21st century

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Some of the WordPress Plugins being used are;

• Extended Profile: From Wordpress.org: This plugin extends the standard WordPress profile to include additional attributes such as photo, organization, address, phone number, and others. A user’s entire profile can then be output as an hCard on any page using the profile shortcode, or with the provided widget.
• Contact Form 7:  From the developer: ‘If you value simplicity and flexibility, Contact Form 7 is a great choice. It allows you to flexibly design the form and mail. You can manage multiple contact forms as well. n addition, it supports many features including AJAX submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering, file uploading, etc.’. P.S. I use Contact Form 7 on numerous Blogs and love it!
• WP Text Sizer: From the developer: Provide visitors to your site the the option of increasing or decreasing the size of text onclick of image or text links using JavaScript. This code provides that option yet allows you, the page designer, to control which portions of your layout can have text size adjusted and how much.
• WP-reCAPTCHA: From the developer: reCAPTCHA is an anti-spam method originating from Carnegie Mellon University which uses CAPTCHAs in a genius way. Instead of randomly generating useless characters which users grow tired of continuously typing in, risking the possibility that spammers will eventually write sophisticated spam bots which use OCR libraries to read the characters, reCAPTCHA uses a different approach. They effectively kill two birds with one stone.

Great move by Telstra in using WordPress!

Disclaimer: Please note that at publication date of this post I am providing ITIL Process Mapping services for Telstra. I do not represent Telstra in any information on this website. The views expressed in this post are mine only and do not necessarily reflect the views of Telstra

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Apparently a large amount of damage may be done to gardens when the brush turkeys gather vegetation to build large mounds in which to bury their eggs (which the male attends). So, they may not be the prettiest and they may not be garden friendly but they are great to have around.

P.S. They belong to the family ‘Megapode’ (also known as Incubator Birds and Mound-builders)

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Plagiarism when Copying Content

I really don’t know why but the vast majority of republishers attempt to claim the articles from these article services as their own or else remove the links and add their own. This is not only against the various article services terms of use however is really ‘cheap’. Why not just publish the article as-is and give credit where it is due? There is no negative impact of being honest so why try to pass the content as someone else’s.

Give Credit where it is Due

I decided to do a quick check on articles that I have published on Ezinearticles to see whether my articles are being attributed correctly. I found that my articles have been republished (in one case a few hundred times) however only very few republishers aren’t removing the links and author name. I really do not understand the reason for this dishonesty; if you are copying someone’s work then at least give credit to the author.

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