Archive for May, 2007
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
The line between Microsoft and Google just got fuzzier with the release of Google Gears, a humble browser extension that suddenly allows GMail, Google Reader and other previously web-based applications to work offline! The competition for Microsoft's cash cow, the Office Suite, just got stronger. This little tick marks ...
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
"The LOLcky Horror Picture Show" by Elliott C. Evans
LOL Cats meets The Rocky Horror Picture Show! (Framegrab silliness and laffs ensue!)
(tags: lolcats film mashup humour meme)
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
In a fit of silliness, I find myself using the LOL CATS builder for terrible, terrible, theorist humour ...
Henry Jenkins...
Jean Baudrillard ...
Where did this insanity come from? I blame Jean (Burgess, not Baudrillard!). (More here.)
Update: Henry Jenkins linked to the LOL Theorist mashups of himself! :)
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
YouTube [Television - New York Times]
"What do you think of the latest video on YouTube? Wait. Don’t answer that, or at least don’t answer with words. ... Really the only authentic response to a YouTube video is another YouTube video — the so-called 'video response.'"
(tags: tv youtube convergence community socialsoftware ...
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
Australia's QUT has been in the grip of a very public controversy recently which dovetails between issues of freedom of speech, academic ethics and the transparency of university processes. The controversy came to light and media attention on 11 April this year when two QUT academics, John Hookham and Gary ...
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
TV Viewers Bill of Rights [SnapStream Blog]
No stupid breaks; Advance the storyline; Don’t cancel the show without an ending; Commit to an end time for the first storyline; Don’t have cliffhangers season to season; Don’t name the show; Don’t screw with the timeslot; Find a new storyline ...
(tags: tv production ...
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
Monoculture [YouTube]
A YouTubed version of one of Spider Jerusalem’s speeches from Transmetropolitan. (Feels like Trainspotting in a cominc book, on the interweb!) [Via]
(tags: warrenellis youtube transmetropolitan comics)
Star Wars mistakes compilation [YouTube]
Hilarious clip showing some of the (glaring) continuity errors in Star Wars!
(tags: starwars georgelucas film)
Ask Alex: Getting a Communication ...
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Google bans essay writing adverts [BBC NEWS | Education]
Score one for better education: "Google is to ban adverts for essay writing services - following claims that plagiarism is threatening the integrity of university degrees."
(tags: google plagiarism cheating elearning highered education)
'Let's Watch A Girl Get Beaten To Death' by Joss Whedon ...
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
The 4400 has taken to viral marketing dramatically in order to build the word before the upcoming fourth season of the TV show. According to AdWeek: To promote the new season of The 4400 on USA Network, Campfire has created a wide-ranging interactive world consisting of 80 videos that run from 30 seconds to ...
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
I was just pointed to Flickrvision, and I'm impressed. Flickrvision, and its older sibling, Twittervision, are program mashups by David Troy which combine the visualisation of Google Maps with the user-created data flowing out of Flickr and Twitter. There's a 'standard view' in which individual Tweets or Flickr images are ...
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