Archive for the ‘web2.0’ Category
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Send a JibJab Sendables® eCard Today! I find it amazing that it's been four years since the first Jib Jab effort! This one’s a little less pointed, but just as much fun as the original but as it’s a little more participatory as you ...
Posted in participatory culture, politics, web2.0 | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
30 ... 20 ... 10 ... nothing. That's the experience fans outside of the US had earlier today when Joss Whedon's web-based musical webisode experiment Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog went live using Hulu, a video-streaming service geo-locked to stream to US IP addresses only:
Now, it's not unusual for content to ...
Posted in Ponderings, advertising, convergence, fan culture, participatory culture, tyranny of digital distance, web2.0 | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Interesting links for July 9th 2008 through July 15th 2008:
End of an Era: lonelygirl15 to Conclude Aug. 1 [NewTeeVee] - "lonelygirl15, the pioneering online video series, will conclude on Aug. 1 to make way for a new show from its creators and their new company, EQAL. This announcement was buried ...
Posted in Google, del.icio.us links, flickr, participatory culture, second life, web2.0, youtube | No Comments »
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
So who the hell is Dr Horrible, and why should you care? Well, he looks to be quite an amusing character and the centre of a story written by someone who writes quite good stories: Joss Whedon. More to the point, for a ...
Posted in advertising, convergence, fan culture, marketing, participatory culture, web2.0 | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
I'm delighted to see that Jill Walker Rettberg's book Blogging has just been released. I had the pleasure of reading much of this book in draft form last year while Jill was a guest researcher here in Communication Studies here at UWA, and on the basis of what I ...
Posted in Ponderings, blogs, citizen journalism, teaching and learning, web2.0 | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Interesting links for June 8th 2008 through June 11th 2008:
Change Congress - NCMR keynote [Lessig Blog] - Lawrence Lessig's keynote at the National Conference for Media Reform arguing for a mobilisation of talent to try and end (or, at least, decrease) the corruption in the US Congress.
J.K. Rowling Speaks at ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Even thought Viddler already does it, and does it better, I'm still quite excited by YouTube's addition of annotation tools. I've got 28 groups of students creating Digital Media Projects at the moment and one of the stipulations was that they have to examine the videosharing websites out ...
Posted in participatory culture, student engagement, teaching and learning, web2.0, youtube | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
You should probably listen to The Facebook Anthem:
This one has to be for Jean! [Via Alex]
Update: And what would Facebook be like in the "real world"?
Posted in web2.0 | 2 Comments »
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Interesting links for April 28th 2008:
Viralcom [Joey and David] - Wonderful satirical series of high-end videos which look at user-generated content, looking at the imagined high-end producers behind each viral hit! (Boy puts mentos in sister's coke doesn't just come from nowhere!) :)
Mobile phones outnumber Australians [ABC News (Australian ...
Posted in australia, del.icio.us links, humour, marketing, web2.0, youtube | 2 Comments »
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Interesting links for April 27th 2008 through April 28th 2008:
Nielsen Online: Produsage Trends in Australia and New Zealand [Produsage.org] - Using details from Nielsen Online, Axel gives an outline of how many Australians and Kiwis are using Web 2.0 tools, and how many are "produsing" (lowdown: a lot use, less ...
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