I’m just helping Brian Kelly author a paper on Openness in Museums for the Museums and the Web conference later in the year. It just stuck me that the movement of content around the web has followed / is following a pattern a little bit like this: Phase I: content held as HTML within sites.… [Read more…]
December 24, 2007
An extraordinary statistic just published in a Pew Internet report on content generation by teens seems to imply that the 1% rule is a little out of kilter with the reality of what’s going on among the yoof. The report claims that 59% of American teenagers engage in at least one form of online content… [Read more…]
December 18, 2007
(^ That title was vaguely supposed to be a play on “King Knut” but it didn’t really work out…) Seb has posted about an article on OpenCulture where the author compares Google’s Knol project to Wikipedia. OpenCulture ultimately comes down hard on Google, reckoning that the Wikipedia “editing by masses” model is a better one.… [Read more…]
December 16, 2007
Oh dear, oh dear… Another deeply sad (but probably – in the longer term – necessary) moment in the history of the intershed: Lane Hartwell (some pro photographer in SF) has caused widespread irritation (wrath, actually) across the blogosphere by getting the fabulous Bubble video pulled because a couple of pictures in it which she… [Read more…]
December 11, 2007
Bugger. I’ve been sucked in to playing the meme game (damn you, Roberto…). Here are the rules: 1: Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves. 2: People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules. 3: At the end of your… [Read more…]
December 6, 2007
I love it when I find something which re-uses a technology which has been around a while in a totally new and innovative way… Google maps, right – mashups – all that? Yeah, I know some of us (me too) are still pretty excited about the whole thing…but how about plotting incoming opinion in real… [Read more…]
November 26, 2007
In my continuing drive to see whether I am capable of browsing the entire web during my lifetime, I came across (actually, a friend posted it to Facebook..) ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com, a fantastically painful look at some of the incredible (read: worrying) stupidity and ignorance associated with the BBC’s Have Your Say section. If I was clever,… [Read more…]
November 25, 2007
The long and frankly fairly boring (to those other than people like me, and probably you if you’re reading this..) debate continues about Facebook data – who owns it, who shares it, how it can be attributed, how open it is. Techcrunch as always pile into the debate with a simple point and a simple… [Read more…]
November 19, 2007
There’s something deliciously lovely about the voyeurism presented on Strictly No Photography, a community photography site: “…for photographs taken where you are not allowed to take them. From the inside of the Kremlin to Kensington palace, from art galleries to war zones. Here you can see everything you’ve ever wanted to see that you’re not… [Read more…]
October 25, 2007
A lot of talk is done around viral marketing, and a lot of hot air too. The most recent example for me was a senior marketing executive (who will remain nameless) who said “we just don’t have the money to do something viral”. This was so badly off the mark that I had to just… [Read more…]
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