Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
While a lot of different people have attempted to deploy the term Web 3.0 to mean pretty much anything they like, I've read more and more reports in the last couple of weeks that seem to be positioning Web 3.0 as the locking down of all of the socially shared ...
Posted in participatory culture, web2.0, youtube | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
After the recent debacle with Nine's Underbelly series becoming a star of the peer-to-peer downloading circuit, the network have taken an entirely different approach with their new offering Canal Road, making the initial episodes available as free downloads. From NineMSN: After battling illegal internet downloads of its hit ...
Posted in advertising, australia, bittorrent, copyright, tv | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Interesting links for April 8th 2008:
Why Academics Should Blog... [Confessions of an Aca/Fan] - Henry Jenkins makes a powerful argument as to why academics - and postgraduate students - should be blogging. Connections, networks, exposure and clarity are among the themes! :)
"I love a sunburnt country" [Flickr Blog] - ...
Posted in Perth, australia, blogs, copyright, del.icio.us links, photography | No Comments »
Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Interesting links for April 6th 2008:
Study: Violent Games Relax Players [Next Generation - Interactive Entertainment Today, Video Game and Industry News - Home of Edge Online] - "People who play violent videogames online generally feel more relaxed and less angry after they have played, according to a new study by ...
Posted in Battlestar Galactica, advertising, convergence, del.icio.us links, marketing, politics, videogames | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Interesting links for April 2nd 2008:
Bringing the cloud with you [Official Google Docs Blog] - Google edges even further in Microsoft's heartland as Google Docs becomes available offline!
Google April Fool's Jokes Galore [Google Blogscoped} - A round-up of Google's extensive April Foos offerings. The best one, of course, was ...
Posted in Google, convergence, copyright, del.icio.us links, humour, microsoft, youtube | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Interesting links for March 31st 2008 through April 1st 2008:
Police take a tip from YouTube [Australian IT] - "Call it BlueTube. Citizen-supplied video evidence of crimes appears set to take off with police forces around Australia."
Embracing the torrent of online video [BBC NEWS | Technology] - Very positive piece from ...
Posted in advertising, australia, bittorrent, convergence, del.icio.us links, participatory culture, tv, youtube | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
From the LAMP Watercooler:
In a stunning revelation today Bill Gates announced that Microsoft has won exclusive rights to the use of 0’s and 1’s in perpetuitity. In a statement released earlier today Gates was quoted as saying: “Yeah… all that Anti-Trust hoo-hah was just a furphy while we were sneaking ...
Posted in humour, microsoft | 2 Comments »
