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, [...]
Links for June 10th 2010 through June 14th 2010: Pollies ‘twitspit’ in not-so-social media [The Australian] – NSW’s political twits: “Not content with their offline stoushing, NSW Premier Kristina Keneally (@KKeneally) and Liberal leader Barry O’Farrell (@barryofarrell), both keen tweeters, have now taken to using the social media site for slinging digital barbs. Last week’s [...]
Links for January 24th 2010: What Does China Censor Online? [Information Is Beautiful] – Provocative infographic illustrating some of what China blocks online. The Director of Downfall Speaks Out on All Those Angry YouTube Hitlers [Vulture - New York Magazine] – “When the Conan-Leno debacle began, two things were certain: One, it would change the [...]
A bunch of links to see in the New Year (Happy 2010!): it’s too late, it’s too soon [the kleptones] – A new Kleptones remix album to see in 2010. Nice. Social media terms are Words Of The Year 2009 [Computerworld] – “Words from the world of technology and social media are among those identified [...]
Links for September 22nd 2009 through September 28th 2009: Creators’ Corner [YouTube] – YouTube have just announced ‘Creative Corner’, a series of resources to help aspiring digital video creators learn better techniques, add special effects, and make the most of getting views on YouTube. Seems like a useful resource. Online Aussies: ‘We won’t pay for [...]
Links for September 18th 2009 through September 21st 2009: RIP Facebook Beacon [Mashable] – “Facebook launched its ad platform “Beacon” in Nov 2007, hoping to revolutionize advertising by posting updates to your Facebook profile when you interacted with its partner sites. This week Facebook said that it has settled a class-action lawsuit against the product, [...]
Links for January 6th 2009: Digital guru Clay Shirky’s media forecast and predictions for 2009 [Media | The Guardian] – “The question is who figures out the business model that says it’s better to have 6 million passionate fans than 7 million bored ones? That is going to be the transformation because what you see [...]
Links for December 9th 2008: Australia’s census going CC BY [Creative Commons] – “In a small, easy to miss post, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has made a very exciting announcement. They’re going CC – and under an Attribution-only license, no less. From the ABS website… Texting Turnbull catches the Twitter bug [The Age] [...]
