Links for July 21st 2010 through July 28th 2010: How Twitter Is Being Used In The Election Campaign [National Times] – Axel Bruns offers a quick look at how Twitter is being used in the Australian politician election campaigning to date: short version, the candidates aren’t doing brilliantly well and #ausvotes is the real hashtag, [...]
Largely Lost-centric links for May 24th 2010: Lost Finale: What the Web Wasn’t Made For [Mashable] – Why I’ll be off most social media today: “Those two wonderful facets of the web — on-demand viewing and instant communication between fans — tonight become a double-edged sword. The Lost Finale will be shown at 9pm ET [...]
Links for May 7th 2010 through May 10th 2010: An Early Look At Twitter Annotations Or, “Twannotations” [TechCrunch] – Twitter are adding annotations, or twannotataions, in the near future; it’ll let specific ‘things’ be identified. It’s a bit like turning Twitter into a semantic communication tool. Richard Giles asks if this will make Twitter (a [...]
Links for May 4th 2010 through May 5th 2010: Twitter is the New CNN | Lance Ulanoff [PCMag.com] – A pretty solid argument about why Twitter is better at sharing news and information than being a social network as such. The inequality of links (ie you don’t agree with a twitter contact to mutually interact, [...]
Links for March 9th 2010: Mapping the growth of the internet [BBC News] – Useful flash-powered world map from the BBC visually demonstrating the growth in internet use across the globe from 1998 to 2008. (Quite a lot of growth to be seen!) Return of the natives by Slavoj Zizek [New Statesman] – Slavoj Zizek [...]
While I fear the upcoming film RepoMen is unlikely to live up the the dystopian promise of its premise (the repossession of artificial organs from people who’ve defaulted on their repayments in a not-too-distant-future), I love some of their promotional posters … addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tamaleaver.net%2F2010%2F02%2F27%2Frepomen%2F’; addthis_title = ‘RepoMen’; addthis_pub = ‘tamaleaver’;
Links for January 27th 2010: Terms of (Ab)Use: US and UK Consumers Dance to Different iTunes [Electronic Frontier Foundation] – Further illustration of the insanity of different national licensing agreements: “For example, as with many TOS agreements, the iTunes U.S. Terms purport to allow Apple to terminate any part of the service, including access to [...]
Links for January 3rd 2010 through January 4th 2010: Self-Proclaimed Social Media Gurus on Twitter Multiplying Like Rabbits [B.L. Ochman's blog] – There are now 15,740 self-proclaimed social media gurus on Twitter! Don’t be one of them. Ban This Game! – Silly but simple flash game exploring the “logic” of the Australian government’s proposed internet [...]
Links for December 3rd 2009 through December 6th 2009: Panic Attack and YouTube Discovery [The Chutry Experiment] – Great post from Chuck Tryon about Fede Alvarez’s sudden appearance on the Hollywood radar thanks to his YouTube short “Ataque de Pánico,” (Panic Attack!), 4 minute special effects driven extravagnaza in which a city is destroyed and [...]
Links for November 27th 2009 through December 2nd 2009: Seven’s FlashForward “leaked” to US [TV Tonight] – “Monday night’s episode of FlashForward was the last for the year on Seven, and screened before the US which took a broadcast break for Thanksgiving. That resulted in the episode being uploaded as a torrent and now “leaked” [...]
