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Suw: Great little video that sums up Web 2.0 in a nutshell.
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Suw: Doesn’t sound like WeMedia was any better this year than last.
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Suw: De Montfort University and Penguin put up a wiki for the collaborative writing of a novel. Or three. Seems to be an open invitation to trolls, but the proof of the pudding will be in the writing. I can’t say that I’m hopeful.
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Suw: Nice bit of stats, there, and we all know I can’t resist some stats. Even if they are web stats and therefore open to interpretation.
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Suw: The whole article, via the ‘print’ page.
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Suw: A study “documents what’s been going on in the U.S. labor market over the past six years, since January 2001. It provides an eye-opening account of what happens when business, and in particular media, moves from the physical to the virtual world.”
Author Archives: Kevin Anderson
links for 2007-02-12
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Suw: Beautiful little site with some very touching, fun and interesting videos, proving that video doesn’t have to be TV. Really nice interface too.
links for 2007-02-11
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Kevin: Wow, wow and wow. Yahoo’s new Pipes pre-fab mashup service. Jon Udell speaking of a vision of the web as ‘data sources’ that could be re-used. But can news organisations think laterally enough to understand how this applies to them?
links for 2007-02-10
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Kevin: Josh Hallett writes: “Another attendee, Mike Orren with Pegasus News just stated, “There is still this notion that we speak, then they converse.” We, being media, they being the readers.”
links for 2007-02-08
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Suw: Really interesting analysis of Bill Gates’ little outburst the other day.
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Kevin: Really great insights from some great minds in mixing community and media.
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Kevin: Read/Write web looks at MSM sites use of web 2.0 services
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Kevin: Martin and I know that this won’t be the last word in this argument, but I might just students and all the PR companies that are contacting me now to this post.
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I have no problems with marketing companies using blogs to promote their films, but ffs, get the terminology right. What you are calling comments are posts!
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Suw: Really very good. I think I might start making clients watch this.
links for 2007-02-07
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Suw: Really useful tip on maintaining more than one Del.icio.us account.
links for 2007-02-03
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Suw: Gates says “Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally.” What planet is this man on?
links for 2007-02-02
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Suw: MyBlogLog also switches to Yahoo! logins. Is this the beginning of a worrying trend? What about Upcoming and Del.icio.us? I hope Yahoo! aren’t thinking about trying to replicate the Google empire by simply acquiring lots of services then foisting the
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Suw: Most recent user stats for Flickr I could find – 4.5m users. 5% of which is 225,000. That’s quite a few people still ‘Old Skool’.
Set-top box and game console as stealth RSS adoption tools
Recently, I’ve been devoting too much of my quality time to twiddling with my MythTV setup. It gives my old Dell Latitude CPx PIII machine something useful to do. After getting the system up and running, I went the full monty and installed the Myth plugins, which turned a neat little free TiVo-esque setup into so much more, like a media centre with RSS goodness. I just wish that I could have my TV or radio playing in a small window as I do that. And the Myth weather centre with the great satellite animation beats anything I can easily get on any UK website. (The BBC site is getting better, but the navigation is a mess.)
UPDATE: Just as I was thinking about RSS on set-top boxes, I found this story about the Associated Press creating an RSS news feed for the Nintendo Wii. Wow. Except, it’s not RSS. I assumed news feed, meant it was powered by RSS. No, my gaming friends tell me. Still, an interesting way to syndicate news, no matter what the technology. Gizmodo has some screen shots. Nice mash up. Wii owners, let us know how this works.
People talk about RSS being an edge case activity, but that really misses the point. RSS is a powerful tool in its own right, but now, we’re seeing how RSS really unlocks your content from your website, opening up a world of syndication opportunities. It will be the applications where RSS is invisible to the user that really drive adoption, and media companies are only now beginning to scrape the surface.
links for 2007-01-30
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Kevin: Andrew Grant-Adamson takes a look where media blogging in the UK is in light of recent figures released in the UK. He quotes figures from Neil McIntosh at the Guardian and Robin Hamman at the BBC.
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Kevin: The Indy kills it’s blogs, or at least the link to them. “A tactical retreat?” asks Andrew. Suw and I had a lot of fun with them in our podcast. The Indy won’t succeed in blogging becase they’re scared of killing their print product. To quote the M
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Kevin: Wow. I would have expected this piece in Wired not the FT. Publishing 2.0. It’s not about control. It’s not about copyright. There is no business in treating all of your customers as potential criminals.
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Kevin: Building on the talk earlier this month about journalists needing new heroes. We also need new skills. If you’re a journalist and you’re not using RSS, you’re ceding an advantage to your competiton.