Back August 8th

Off to St Petersburg and Moscow. Back on Saturday August 8th.

Back online Sunday

Thursday is a Geneva holiday. Off for a few days. Back on Sunday.

On vacation until August 19

Off to Indonesia. Back August 19.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Taking a break. Back on Thursday November 15

Taking a break in New York this week. Next blog update Thursday November 15.

Vacation

On vacation. Back on Tuesday August 14.

Latest posts from Textually.org

Here are the links to the latest posts from Textually.org (we're having technical problems, posts are not appearing on main index or in RSS feeds - but they are being archived with permalinks)

-- iPhone from the sand

-- Teen Imprisoned For Text-Messaging Death

-- Bank to use cell phones to record money collection online

-- Canadian valley aims to keep cellphone-free quiet

-- Google Pushes for Rules to Aid Wireless Plan

Watching TV Online

Because I think it's huge already (I know so many people who no longer watch TV series on television, but over the Internet - I'm one of them), I'm opening a new blog called WatchingTV Online.

It will follow how TV content published online is impacting the Television industry and how the industry is fighting back. It will explore the new generation of TV series as a writing genre, realistic and fast paced - truly a new art form. [ 24', Weeds, Desperate Housewives, Prison Break, Lost, Heroes, nip/tuck, Dr House, Dexter, CSI:, Grey's Anatomy, the 1400, Veronica Mars, Scrubs, The OC, Smallville, The Shield... ]

But also, the crossing of moral bounderies each new season. I'm going to try and pull together research and studies on what this says about our society and how it's perceived around the world.

The Man with Horns

Not related to cell phones, but a haunting and beautiful piece on LoIP of Etienne Dumont, a brilliant art and culture critic with the Tribune de Genève newspaper in Geneva.

"I had heard of his physical extravagance, which beautifully matches his writing style, but I'd never seen the man. The picture was made without using any computer graphics. Dumont is tattooed from head to toe; has plexiglas piercings on the nose and under the lower lip; a titanium ring on the left hand; rings of 70-mm (2.7 inches) of diameter on the earlobes. And two horns on his head, which he plans to grow bigger in the coming days -- by replacing the two silicon spheres currently inserted under his skin with larger ones.

... He dismisses any psychological reading of his corporal transformation: "In the US, to justify their tattoos they often talk of spiritual quest; for me, it's just amusing" . And he states: "Being an extravagant man gives me greater freedom".

He was recently written up in the La Tribune de Genève, where he spoke out about his transformation (in French). "I was told this would change my life. Not al all! I live in the same apartment, work at the same job and have no health problems".

Easter Break

Off to Naples for a holiday break, back on Wednesday April 11. Happy Easter to one and all.

Please take the Textually Network Short Survey

The textually blogs, including Picturephoning.com, have recently been accepted into the Federated Media Publishing network, and as part of the initial process of starting up, FM asks their Authors to run a survey on their site.

The survey asks pretty standard questions of their audiences, so as to make better matches between marketers and an author's sites.

Many thanks for taking a minute to fill out this short survey , and letting us know more about you.

It'll help make the Textually blogs and FM more successful - without reader input, there's not a business in the first place. Thanks in advance, and please let me know if you have any trouble or input.

Guest Bloggers on textually

I'm taking a break over the holidays but two wonderful bloggers will be filling in for me: Gerrit Visser from Smart Mobs and Nuno Bastei from 21talks.net.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!

France24 not responding -

UPDATE: my mistake, apologies to France 24, website only goes live tonight at 8:30pm (GMT+1).

Not related to cell phones. But I'm unable to view France's new "CNN", France 24, which went live last night with much hoopla, following a send off by Jacques Chirac himself on the 8 o'clock national news channel.

Click through doesn't respond in order to access the website beyond the introductory page on my Mac Power Book using either Firefox or IE, though I did my best to follow the uh, instructions:

CLICK TWICE ON THE IMAGE FOR A FULL SCREEN VIEW (THEN ON THE ESCAPE BUTTON TO RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL SCREEN).

Quelle honte!

X-Series Blog

To get the inside scoop on 3’s X-Series - 3 Group's partnership with Skype, Sling Media, Yahoo!, Nokia, Google, eBay, Microsoft, Orb and Sony Ericsson - which will bring the internet via mobile broadband, bookmark their X-Series Blog.

In their own words:

We'll be writing on a range of subjects from how to do cool stuff with your X-Series mobiles, to what's coming next in the world of the mobile internet. And we're not just restricting contributions to 3 people ... you're more than welcome to contribute stuff too.

Back from vacation

Back from vacation! Something is off with e-mail, last message received dates back to April 6. If you have tried to contact me, please try again. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Off for a couple of weeks

I'm leaving in a few hours on vacation for a couple of weeks (Seychelles). My good friend Régine Debatty from WMMNA will be taking over as much as she can. Updating will be irregular as Régine will be busy travelling too.

Bear with us! Back on track April 13.

Régine is taking over

Off to the US for 10 days. Régine from we-make-money-not-art will be taking over. So watch this space for great things!

E-Media Tidbits Available by RSS Feed

Media mind and camera phone advocate Steve Outing reports that favorite E-Media Tidbits now has an RSS feed. Click here.

Web forwarding

If you've had trouble accessing picturephoning.com, it was due to web forwarding delays (we changed hosting services). Apologies for the inconvenience. If you're trying to reach Ringtonia, web forwarding is still not working so you should click here.

Picturephoning.com restored

Picturephoning.com experienced a hard disk drive crash 10 days ago. All the content has been retrieved as of today, but the e-mail notification list has been lost.

If you would like to receive e-mail notifications, sign up again online, on the right hand side, under Free Notifications.

Sorry for the inconvenience. And be safe, don't forget to back-up your blogs.