Archive for the ‘youtube’ Category
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Memes are funny things (both funny as in odd and, if done well, often funny and in the laughing stuff) but I never really expected Hilter (or even an actor playing Hitler) to be become meme central. I guess that shows I really do underestimate those interweb folks! :P ...
Posted in mashup, youtube | 3 Comments »
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
One of the things I've been thinking about a lot this semester has been the way my teaching does - or doesn't - encourage my students to develop that elusive, highly ambiguous but universally sought-after quality of creativity. I've been running two units - Digital Media, which is a relatively ...
Posted in Ponderings, blogs, participatory culture, student engagement, teaching and learning, youtube | No Comments »
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Interesting links for May 9th 2008 through May 12th 2008:
TimeTube - "Creates a timeline for any YouTube keyword search--very handy for visualising the activity around particular topics--and iterations/transformations of particular videos--over time." (Via Jean)
Victorian Liberal staffers sacked for blogging [gatewatching] - Two staffers in the Victorian Liberal Party were fired ...
Posted in australia, blogs, citizen journalism, del.icio.us links, flickr, humour, participatory culture, photography, politics, videogames, youtube | No 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 »
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Interesting links for April 17th 2008:
TV takes the online challenge [The Age] - '"The reason people are illegally using P2P [peer-to-peer] networks is simply because content isn't available elsewhere," says Ten's general manager, Digital Media, Damian Smith.' (So give me a legal way to download Battlestar Galactica today and I ...
Posted in Google, australia, convergence, del.icio.us links, tv, tyranny of digital distance, videogames, youtube | No Comments »
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 »
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 »
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Do the Test. [Via Graeme's Training Wheels]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
In a wonderful parody of the viral YouTube hit that was Noah's photo ever day for six years, The Simpsons have included this clip in the latest episode in the US: [Via Peter Black] If that doesn't amuse you, then perhaps edutainment is more to your taste, so you ...
Posted in tv, youtube | 2 Comments »
