Archive for July, 2007
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
New Potter Book May Have Made Its Way to Web [New York Times]
A Bittorrent of the whole of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows (albeit a PDF of document images, no just text) has arrived four days before the book's official release. Most reports suggest it's probably genuine...
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Getting a WonkySexy Groove On -Rudy & Barack's 'Girls' Ratchet Up a Political Pillow Fight [16 July 07, WashingtonPost.com
Ben Relles of Barely Political: "We weren't really thinking about politics," ..." We were just interested in making something really viral, getting a lot of attention."
(tags: politics usa viral youtube participatoryculture participatorymedia)
Microsoft ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
As Chuck and a quite a few others have pointed out, Barely Political have released another viral video, this time featuring an MTV style showdown between the singing, dancing political spokesmodel* Obama Girl and her political nemesis, Giuliani Girl: I rather like Chuck's description of this clip as a "a singing and ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
Citizen Media: A Progress Report [Center for Citizen Media]
Dan Gillmor delivers a detail report on the current state of citizen media. (A good read.)
(tags: blog citizenmedia citizenjournalism participatoryculture)
Farscape, Galactica return in short form [GateWorld]
Battlestar Galactica will promote the upcoming 'Razor' tele-movie with "mini-sodes" (not webisodes!) - 8 3-4 ...
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
TV is the New Internet [Jul 13 07 - SFGate: Culture Blog!]
Pew Research Center for People and the Press find 44% Americans have heard of a viral video about the upcoming US election, 27% have seen one. " In each case, more people had seen the videos on TV than ...
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
The Australian ran a couple of stories today about Australian politics finding another outlet in MySpace's 'Impact' website (the Australian version).
In Nicola Berkovic's 'Kevin has more 'friends' than John', she points out that Labor is doing much better in MySpace than the Liberal Party. As Berkovic notes:
Yesterday afternoon, the ...
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
Making an Impact on MySpace [The Bartlett Diaries]
Senator Andrew Bartlett looks soberly at the use of MySpace in Australia for engaging the Australian population in poliitcs. While MySpace may very well not do much at all here, I'm still pleased politicians are willing to give it a try!
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Facebook Rockets Past 30 Million Users [Inside Facebook]
"The Facebook userbase has quadroupled from 7.5 million in July 2006 and spread from 20 million to 30 million in the last 3 months alone." (So there's more people of Facebook than the population of Australia!)
(tags: facebook socialsoftware socialnetworking demographics)
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Chuck tagged me a few days ago with the Eight Things meme; although I'm generally fairly anti-meme, I've been enjoying a bit of back and forth with Chuck in his blog and on del.icio.us, so figured I could add one more procrastination on a writing day. Apparently, I have to start with ...
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Falling Gnomes - "Gold-farmers beat ad-ban by spelling URL in dead gnomes" in WoW [YouTube]
WoW "gold farmers" spell their URLs in dead gnomes in World of Warcraft to circumvent a ban on in-game advertising!" [Via BBoing]
(tags: wow worldofwarcraft videogames mmog advertising)
Net blamed for Shanghai teen pregnancies [The Age]
"Nearly half of ...
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