Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 16th, 2007
Bravia Paint Advertisement - Behind the Scenes [YouTube]
Even the ads have behind the scenes featurettes now! ;) Mind you, wiht that much exploding paint, it's amazing footage, regardless of what it's used for!
(tags: advertising youtube convergence)
Will the JFK of the Net be French ? [Le Blog de Netpolitique]
Will French politicians ...
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Having dedicated the final chapter of my doctoral thesis to examining the first two Spider-Man films as an exemplar of Artificial Culture, I really had to buy and watch the new Spider-Man 2.1 DVD, despite my constant annoyance at how these just-before-the-sequel extended edition DVD releases tend to disappoint. ...
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Sadly, that title means dilemmas in using del.icio.us and Wordpress together, not dilemmas in deciding my next dessert! :( For over a month now I've been using del.icio.us' "Blogging: daily blog posting" tool to create daily posts containing my del.icio.us bookmarks in the preceding 24 hours. These posts ...
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is Dead at 84 [New York Times]
RIP Kurt Vonnegut
JUSTIN.TV: How webcam sex nearly saved the world [Valleywag]
Justin Kan's "lifecasting" pauses at the intimate moment! While disappointing to many Justin TV viewers, the life-in-the-comments on Justin TV during this blackout ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
I tried Jaiku today since it's been discussed a lot recently as the 'other' Twitter (even though Jaiku was around first, I think).
First impressions of Jaiku - a lot more tools, more fleshed out, I like the idea of comment threads on individual messages, it's less about popularity per se, ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Democrats invent the remix, only three years after the Tunisians [Ethan Zuckerman / …My heart’s in Accra]
Apparently a Tunisian - "Astrubal“ - released a 1984-styled mashup long before the US: " the hammer shatters a screen where Tunisian president Ben Ali is speaking. The final image [is] of a Tunisian ...
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
How to Become a Compulsive Workaholic With No Life... Or The Secrets Behind My Success [Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins]
"All of the above might sound totally egotistical since it implies that I am in any way the author of my own success. The reality is ...
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
As everyone from the New York Times onward has noted, in the wake of the threats against Kathy Sierra Tim O'Reilly proposed a Blogging Code of Conduct and has now written the first (draft) version of this code. While I'm heartened that so much well-intentioned conversation has surged through ...
Posted in blogs, citizen journalism, kathysierra, participatory culture, stopcyberbullying, web2.0 | 4 Comments »
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
I'm away from the blog, away from the internet, away from Twitter and away from email until Tuesday next week as I simply must finish some writing and would also like to spend some real quality time with loved ones. I hope everyone has a Happy Easter break, whether it's ...
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
You'll forgive the title to this post, I've never been able to let a good pun go and I doubt I'll ever be able to use that one again. It's true, though: I was interviewed about a month ago by Cathrin Shaer, a New Zealand-based writer for Vogue ...
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