<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382226539035482647</id><updated>2011-07-30T14:31:19.844-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SydneyGroove - Earthday Birthday</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sydneygroove.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3382226539035482647/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sydneygroove.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Peter Holmes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05374203920254022826</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Cfu3HjSaWb8/SnSfj6-RqrI/AAAAAAAAAbk/cgDhVgcoPlM/S220/twitback10+%5B320x200%5D.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382226539035482647.post-2920095297038520985</id><published>2011-04-08T03:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-08T03:57:06.101-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3382226539035482647-2920095297038520985?l=sydneygroove.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sydneygroove.blogspot.com/feeds/2920095297038520985/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3382226539035482647&amp;postID=2920095297038520985' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3382226539035482647/posts/default/2920095297038520985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3382226539035482647/posts/default/2920095297038520985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sydneygroove.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Peter Holmes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05374203920254022826</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Cfu3HjSaWb8/SnSfj6-RqrI/AAAAAAAAAbk/cgDhVgcoPlM/S220/twitback10+%5B320x200%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382226539035482647.post-190434036365651067</id><published>2009-05-22T23:06:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-22T23:06:01.233-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Social Traffic - Our Media Scape Has Changed Forever</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height='350' width='425'&gt;&lt;param value='http://youtube.com/v/wR-BCJaWMtM' name='movie'/&gt;&lt;embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/wR-BCJaWMtM'/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3382226539035482647-190434036365651067?l=sydneygroove.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sydneygroove.blogspot.com/feeds/190434036365651067/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3382226539035482647&amp;postID=190434036365651067' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3382226539035482647/posts/default/190434036365651067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3382226539035482647/posts/default/190434036365651067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sydneygroove.blogspot.com/2009/05/social-traffic-our-media-scape-has.html' title='Social Traffic - Our Media Scape Has Changed Forever'/><author><name>Peter Holmes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05374203920254022826</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Cfu3HjSaWb8/SnSfj6-RqrI/AAAAAAAAAbk/cgDhVgcoPlM/S220/twitback10+%5B320x200%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382226539035482647.post-4642804842194623875</id><published>2009-05-14T07:09:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-14T07:09:52.963-07:00</updated><title type='text'>You tube &amp; using Online Video In Your Marketing - Part 1</title><content type='html'>By using Video on your sites you can Increase your traffic by 20 % they are cheap and easy to make with a ROI of 150%. Use them to increase Brand awareness.. more great tips from "Social Traffic"  ..and that"s just the beginning... &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.eventslisted.com/socialmediastrategies/marketing-tools/online-video-success-part-1'&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://digg.com/educational/You_tube_using_Online_Video_In_Your_Marketing_Part_1'&gt;digg story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3382226539035482647-4642804842194623875?l=sydneygroove.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sydneygroove.blogspot.com/feeds/4642804842194623875/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3382226539035482647&amp;postID=4642804842194623875' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3382226539035482647/posts/default/4642804842194623875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3382226539035482647/posts/default/4642804842194623875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sydneygroove.blogspot.com/2009/05/you-tube-using-online-video-in-your.html' title='You tube &amp;amp; using Online Video In Your Marketing - Part 1'/><author><name>Peter Holmes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05374203920254022826</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Cfu3HjSaWb8/SnSfj6-RqrI/AAAAAAAAAbk/cgDhVgcoPlM/S220/twitback10+%5B320x200%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382226539035482647.post-8277968634255054111</id><published>2009-03-20T17:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-20T17:00:07.490-07:00</updated><title type='text'>How One Small Class Saves Earth In A Big Way!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height='350' width='425'&gt;&lt;param value='http://youtube.com/v/ThXHhAqwsVY' name='movie'/&gt;&lt;embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/ThXHhAqwsVY'/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Great to see centers like this taking such an active part in teaching kids to recycle .. fantastic !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3382226539035482647-8277968634255054111?l=sydneygroove.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sydneygroove.blogspot.com/feeds/8277968634255054111/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Cfu3HjSaWb8/SnSfj6-RqrI/AAAAAAAAAbk/cgDhVgcoPlM/S220/twitback10+%5B320x200%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382226539035482647.post-1753127036753413686</id><published>2009-03-20T16:49:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-20T16:49:30.045-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Should We Create a Federal Reserve for Energy?</title><content type='html'>John Hofmeister argues that Congress is too slow to make real energy reform happen and offers a unique plan for reaching short, medium and long-term goals for this nation's energy supply.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://fora.tv/2008/10/16/Is_Big_Oil_Part_of_Our_Energy_Problem_or_the_Solution_#John_Hofmeister_on_Creating_a_Federal_Reserve_for_Energy'&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href='http://digg.com/environment/Should_We_Create_a_Federal_Reserve_for_Energy'&gt;digg story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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Holmes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05374203920254022826</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Cfu3HjSaWb8/SnSfj6-RqrI/AAAAAAAAAbk/cgDhVgcoPlM/S220/twitback10+%5B320x200%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382226539035482647.post-5982915129178425949</id><published>2009-03-20T16:23:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-20T16:23:04.421-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr. W</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height='350' width='425'&gt;&lt;param value='http://youtube.com/v/2mTLO2F_ERY' name='movie'/&gt;&lt;embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/2mTLO2F_ERY'/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What a great interpretation of our changing attitudes towards a windy day.. enjoy !1&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3382226539035482647-5982915129178425949?l=sydneygroove.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sydneygroove.blogspot.com/feeds/5982915129178425949/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3382226539035482647&amp;postID=5982915129178425949' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3382226539035482647/posts/default/5982915129178425949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3382226539035482647/posts/default/5982915129178425949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sydneygroove.blogspot.com/2009/03/mr-w.html' title='Mr. W'/><author><name>Peter 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Holmes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05374203920254022826</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Cfu3HjSaWb8/SnSfj6-RqrI/AAAAAAAAAbk/cgDhVgcoPlM/S220/twitback10+%5B320x200%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382226539035482647.post-3919765393624468471</id><published>2009-03-14T21:01:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-14T22:11:59.419-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Earth Day Birthday – Promoted by the Social Traffic Inc</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Cfu3HjSaWb8/SbyM1mLEQ3I/AAAAAAAAAIA/pGVeev7VV8k/s1600-h/nov+08+640.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 477px; height: 198px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Cfu3HjSaWb8/SbyM1mLEQ3I/AAAAAAAAAIA/pGVeev7VV8k/s320/nov+08+640.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313276512798262130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Earth Day Birthday - Promoted by 'Social Traffic'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Earth Day &lt;/span&gt;gets closer people all around the world are connecting&lt;br /&gt;and discussing what they are going to do , how they will celebrate the&lt;br /&gt;day and the earth we live on .. be it in the back yard with friends or&lt;br /&gt;getting some mates together and attending one of the many events&lt;br /&gt;planned and being planned around the globe. Promoters are busy&lt;br /&gt;printing posters and sending out fliers. They are promoting their&lt;br /&gt;websites to try and get them found, selling their tickets through&lt;br /&gt;local record shops or ticketing agencies, all cutting into their bottom&lt;br /&gt;line but where they really need to focus is on the people who are&lt;br /&gt;looking for somewhere to go ...who want to find an event in their&lt;br /&gt;area.&lt;br /&gt;People are so busy at work, on their computers, that by the time&lt;br /&gt;they drive home the bill posters are just a blur. They get home&lt;br /&gt;and while dinner is in the oven, they catch up with a few friends&lt;br /&gt;and relatives around the world on &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Facebook, Twitter, or Google &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;friend connect&lt;/span&gt;, to see whats goin on.&lt;br /&gt;Wouldn't it be great if there was one place you could go to on the&lt;br /&gt;web that all your friends could connect with that had all the&lt;br /&gt;events in your area and from around the world streaming in&lt;br /&gt;so you could seamlessly tell everyone you know and they could&lt;br /&gt;tell you. It gave you maps, let you see who else was going, you&lt;br /&gt;could even chat about ideas for the day, send them invites, and&lt;br /&gt;share your photos after and during the event..... Oh stop&lt;br /&gt;...you are getting carried away now Peter...&lt;br /&gt;and you could upload videos of past events ...and....&lt;br /&gt;and......maybe there is ? &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.eventslisted.com/"&gt;www.eventslisted.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or contact me to with your event ! &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="mailto:eventslisted@gmail.com"&gt;eventslisted@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Peter Holmes .....pfh.edbd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So " What on Earth " are you doing on Earth Day 2009 ?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3382226539035482647-3919765393624468471?l=sydneygroove.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sydneygroove.blogspot.com/feeds/3919765393624468471/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3382226539035482647&amp;postID=3919765393624468471' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3382226539035482647/posts/default/3919765393624468471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3382226539035482647/posts/default/3919765393624468471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sydneygroove.blogspot.com/2009/03/earth-day-birthday-promoted-by-social.html' title='Earth Day Birthday – Promoted by the Social Traffic Inc'/><author><name>Peter Holmes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05374203920254022826</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Cfu3HjSaWb8/SnSfj6-RqrI/AAAAAAAAAbk/cgDhVgcoPlM/S220/twitback10+%5B320x200%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Cfu3HjSaWb8/SbyM1mLEQ3I/AAAAAAAAAIA/pGVeev7VV8k/s72-c/nov+08+640.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382226539035482647.post-7562100802065097231</id><published>2008-12-09T15:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T15:38:10.485-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A camel a day keeps the doctor away.</title><content type='html'>Australians were urged Tuesday to eat camels to stop them wreaking environmental havoc, just months after being told to save the world from climate change by consuming kangaroos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A three-year study has found that Australia's population of more than a million feral camels -- the largest wild herd on earth -- is out of control and damaging fragile desert ecosystems and water sources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre, which produced the report, plans to serve camel meat at a barbecue for senior public servants in Canberra on Wednesday to press its point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Report co-author Professor Murray McGregor said a good way to bring down the number of camels was to eat them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Eat a camel today, I've done it," he told the national AAP news agency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It's beautiful meat. It's a bit like beef. It's as lean as lean, it's an excellent health food."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Similar claims are made for kangaroo meat, but the rationale for farming and eating the national emblem -- as outlined by the government's chief climate change adviser in October -- is different.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Millions of farm animals such as cows and sheep produce massive amounts of harmful greenhouse gases, said Professor Ross Garnaut, but kangaroos emit negligible amounts of methane.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unlike the native kangaroo, camels were introduced into Australia as pack animals for the vast outback in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, but were released into the wild as rail and road travel became more widespread.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The country has wrestled for years with imported animals brought in as beasts of burden, food sources, for recreational hunting or, ironically, to control agricultural pests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Department of the Environment lists animals of "significant concern" as including feral camels, horses, donkeys, pigs, European wild rabbits, European red foxes, cats, goats and cane toads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With few natural predators and vast sparsely populated areas in which to roam, the populations have soared, putting pressure on native species by preying on them, competing for food, destroying habitats and spreading disease.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3382226539035482647-7562100802065097231?l=sydneygroove.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sydneygroove.blogspot.com/feeds/7562100802065097231/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3382226539035482647&amp;postID=7562100802065097231' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3382226539035482647/posts/default/7562100802065097231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3382226539035482647/posts/default/7562100802065097231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sydneygroove.blogspot.com/2008/12/camel-day-keeps-doctor-away.html' title='A camel a day keeps the doctor away.'/><author><name>Peter Holmes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05374203920254022826</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Cfu3HjSaWb8/SnSfj6-RqrI/AAAAAAAAAbk/cgDhVgcoPlM/S220/twitback10+%5B320x200%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
