Archive for the ‘convergence’ Category
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 ...
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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 »
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Does making a book freely available online hurt or enhance the sales of the hardcopy? Advocates suggest that if you read a bit of the book online you're more likely to buy the hardcopy if you like it and finish reading it on paper. You're also more likely to recommend ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
I'm very pleased that the 'Beyond Broadcasting' issue of Media International Australia is out, not only because it features some excellent articles asking some great questions about the future of television in the era of digital communication, but also because it features an article of mine that I've been thinking ...
Posted in Battlestar Galactica, Ponderings, convergence, fan culture, participatory culture, personal, tv, tyranny of digital distance | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Web 2.0 remains one of those wonderful catch-all phrases which is employed in so many different ways to support a host of different ideas. Rather than leave the term to gain even further layers of hype as it rolls down the digital hillside, a new special edition of First Monday ...
Posted in convergence, participatory culture, web2.0 | 1 Comment »
Saturday, August 11th, 2007
The answer to 'who owns web2.0?' should probably be 'everyone who uses it', but a recent post by Amy Webb uses a very simple but important image to remind us all that convergence isn't just a technical or cultural term, it's an industrial gameplan for everyone from Google and Yahoo ...
Posted in Google, convergence, microsoft, web2.0 | 3 Comments »
Monday, August 6th, 2007
So ... Bree's dead, then. Or, that should be "Bree's dead" since her character supposedly had all of her blood transfused to someone else, but you're not dead on television, or in videoblogs (which, in this case at least, looks like they want to be television) until your head comes ...
Posted in convergence, lonelygirl15, participatory culture, web2.0, youtube | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in advertising, australia, convergence, marketing, participatory culture, politics, web2.0, youtube | 1 Comment »
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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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! :)
Posted in blogs, convergence, loltheorists, participatory culture, personal, web2.0 | 3 Comments »
