Robin Malau Dot Com - Rockstar Turns Internet Geek

Note: This is too much geeky if you don’t run your own Wordpress blog, an active Twitter account and setting up your name/aliases at Google Alerts.

Somehow Twitter and Google Alerts can be very annoying if i get too much updates. But i found this interesting that connect the 2 services (and a Wordpress blog) in a very cool way.

The scenario:

1. My id in Twitter is lowrobb (follow me here, if you are not spam, bot or ‘internet money maker’, promise i’ll follow you back!).
2. I also set up lowrobb on Google Alerts.

Today, a twitter friend ThePunk (who runs a Wordpress blog) twitted this, and i replied this. I didn’t notice that he replied to my latest tweet until a Google Alert arrive in my inbox that look like below:

Twitter Updates for 2008-05-06
… Murphys - Wicked Sensitive Crew http://tinyurl.com/5a45f9 # @utvolfan one of my others, from my coffee shop days is "expresso" # I am loving the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin. # @lowrobb does it work for plugin upgrades as [. …

Actually @thepunk, he really replied to my tweet and i only recognize it via Google Alert. So i went to his blog posting his latest twitter status (as in the Google Alert) and i finally respond his latest tweet through the blog post comment.

How fun and useful if you can connect several social media services, and make the most of them to controlling your name and get connected to people in the internet.

Produced by Sidetrack Films, Beautiful Losers is an intimate and moving assessment of underappreciated yet wildly influential outcasts such as Shepard Fairey, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine, Stephen Powers, Geoff McFetridge, Thomas Campbell and Ed Templeton. Informed by their individual experiences and the generation’s “Do It Yourself” culture, these artists left an indelible mark on the worlds of fashion, music, literature, film and ironically, sports. The story of Beautiful Losers is a retrospective celebration of their contribution to artistic independence.

The film has screened at SXSW which i didn’t go, and it’s now is on tour across US. From the people from film’s YouTube Channel, people can expect that this film will be out in theaters across America this summer and out on dvd by the end of the year.

Oh yeah, if i don’t find the chance to go to the states, i’ll be happy to wait for the DVD. You can learn more on the film at the official website and below is the trailer.

Via: Juxtapoz.

Good news for Star Wars fans like myself. Aaron Allston’s Legacy of The Force: Betrayal is now available in PDF, Audiobook, Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader e-book. The download period is on today until May 13th.

Go download it now dude, don’t miss it.

I was stumbling around and found this interesting site, Worldometer, which is a site dedicated to world statistics that updated in real time. Worldometer is managed by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world.

From their FAQ page, here’s how they keep the numbers real time:

Numbers displayed on the web page are obtained automatically from Worldometers’ algorithm. The algorithm itself, and the numbers included in the algorithm, are not updated in real time simply because the sources from which the data is derived are not able to provide real time updates, but only periodical ones. Worldometers’ team updates the algorithm, and the numbers and formulas herein included, on an ongoing basis as new data becomes available.

The main website is served in English but also has already translated to several other language. They are currently looking for Korean and Finnish speaking translator as their mission is to serve to wider audience.

The same group of people also presenting the other project; Stop The Hunger, which aim to provide a real time statistics on world hunger.

This is a really cool project.

I have upgraded this blog to new released Wordpress 2.5.1. From the development blog, i found that the team at Wordpress also include Media Uploader fixes which in the past i found error several times.

But at top of that, this is an urgent security release, so you will need to upgrade yours.

Download now.