Strange Statistics

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Feb 202006
 

I picked this up from The Florida Baptist Witness (don’t ask)

JACKSONVILLE (FBW) —Almost 20 million people have looked for religious or spiritual information online, with more than two million users seeking material on any given day, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. They are looking for answers, looking for a program that fits their needs and looking for a place to belong. This makes the search for religious material a more popular feature on the Internet than the performance of online banking (18 percent), participation in online auctions (15 percent), and the use of online dating services (9 percent), says the Pew report.

Faith online is a very interesting phenomena.

“The hits we get on our Web site is the way people are seeking out and finding churches both among the churched…”

The churched? Oh those that been got as opposed to those that aint been got? Love Americans :)

The Barna Research Group estimates that by the year 2010, 10-20 percent of Americans will rely on the Internet exclusively for their religious experience. Virtually every dimension of the faith community will be influenced by online faith developments, Barna said.

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Napster – Getting the Marketing Right (and Wrong)

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Feb 172006
 

Don’t you just love it when the world turns upsidedown? Napster dropped a bundle on a failed advertising campaign at the SuperBowl a week or two ago: Napster’s Super Bowl ad voted the biggest loser The RegisterNapster has been awarded the title of Super Bore by viewers ranking the advertisements from last night’s football championship.Napster’s ad – which claimed it costs $10,000 to fill Apple’s iPod with music and just $14.95 a month to rent as much music as possible via Napster’s new To Go service – placed last in a survey taken by USA Today. Companies paid close to Continue Reading…

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Quis custodiet custodes?

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Feb 122006
 

Monica Attard has just taken over a tough job – hosting Media Watch. The previous host, Liz Jackson said “You are setting yourself up as the judge of your colleagues.” While it gave Monica second thoughts “Yeah, I did hesitate,” she became convinced:At the end of the day, I think what convinced me was that I know how much more cautious we are as journalists when Media Watch is on,” she says. (SMH today) Her last words on the subject were:I am very mindful that the onus is upon me to be fair and right, all the time, and it’s Continue Reading…

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Ad Revolution with Ford Motor

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Feb 122006
 

The Australian Financial Review reported today that “Ad Revolution Leaves Agencies Out in the Cold”.Two weeks ago, Ford Motor Company put the wind up advertising agency executives around the world when it announced it was reviewing its marketing plans and where it spends its dollars.What has spooked the advertising industry is that Ford ignore its myriad marketing suppliers… and instead brought in executives from consulting firm Accenture to conduct the review.The move by Ford has confirmed their fear tht he ays when companies turned to ad agencies for advice on marketing strategy are over. So, what will Accenture tell them? Continue Reading…

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Go Wiki Go!

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Feb 052006
 

Wiki done gone and caught themselves another plagiarist. Funny cartoon here.Tim Ryan, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reporter whose plagiarism was recently discovered by Wikipedia editors, has been dismissed after additional instances of plagiarism were reported. This brought his tenure to an end last week after more than twenty years at the newspaper.The above is a quote from wikipedia, who have caught more than their fair share of plagiarists lately. See, I nearly always attribute my sources. Two questions though. First, if high school students, nay primary school kids can work out that their teacher will Google sentences from their essays and Continue Reading…

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Missing kids and Myspace.com

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Feb 052006
 

CBS 5 from San Francisco, has a report from San Jose Police Detective David Gonzalez about parental concern regarding links between missing teens and Myspace. He points out that predators troll the forums and blogs looking for targets and recommends the following: What we tell parents is that kids should not have a computer with Internet access in their own room,” said Gonzalez. “Computers should always be in a common area.”In addition, children should not be given the password to access the Internet from the family computer, according to Gonzalez.“The parents should log into the computer for the child,” he Continue Reading…

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A Blogger’s Responsibility…

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Feb 052006
 

… is to freedom of speech or is it to not incite war? If we talk about ‘freedom of the press’ well, what is the ‘press’ these days? That naughty Tim Blair is at it again (the link is for his newish address, it would appear that he moves his blog every year or so – read on to see why. ) Ex-editor and current columnist, Aussie Timbo decided to post up those cartoons that caused a furore in the European Muslim community. Now if Alan Jones “leads the charge” (yep, I’m quoting Jonesy) currently with upsetting the Australian Muslim Continue Reading…

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Hey Aussies! Got Something To Say?

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Feb 032006
 

As a follow up on my bite on politics, the press gallery and Australian collaborative journalism, go have a look at The National Forum. We recognise that to be successful this revolution must involve everyone: that it must harness and focus all the forces of civil and political society across the whole spectrum of views. To that end we have already enlisted as members some significant Australian institutions including the University of Sydney, the Brisbane Institute, QUT, the Local Government Association of Queensland, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy and Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, as well as Continue Reading…

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Healthcare and Online Communities

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Feb 032006
 

Carolina NewsWire reported that:Cary, North Carolina — ProviderLink, Inc., a healthcare I.T. communications company dedicated to helping clients build results-driven online communities, announced that Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, the largest private medical center in Louisiana, has successfully implemented ProviderLink’s communication tools. The medical center’s case management team is now using ProviderLink to communicate online with government and private payors, as well as skilled nursing facilities, all through a single interface and workflow. ProviderLink seem to have understood one of the key points of online communities:Most difficult of all, the technology must provide real value even before Continue Reading…

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Customers as Creators report

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Feb 022006
 

Research and Markets – a company that sells business reports – has one called Customers as Creators on its books by the Patricia Seybold Group. Or at least a draft chapter of it.In this draft chapter for the authors upcoming book, Outside Innovation, she provides examples of companies in which customers play the role of creators—content creators and product creators. Tripod.com was one of the first successful online communities in which customers created the content that kept them and others coming back several times a week. Customers came to Tripod to “strut their stuff.” The site earned money through advertisements Continue Reading…

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Australian Politics: The Canberra Press Gallery

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Feb 012006
 

Went off with Erietta and Jo S to The Sydney Institute tonight, and gosh! who would’ve thunk that journo’s would have a way with words??!!?? Great speakers, all 3 of ‘em. Matt Price from The Australian introduced the topic – The Gallery: Insular, Intrusive or Indispensable? – and very amusing he was too. No real reference to how media is changing, unlike second speaker Margaret Simons who really seems to get that the business model is not changing but HAS changed. Margaret Simons asked – where’s the money in newspapers? Are journalists and editors defunct? Advertising has been seperated out Continue Reading…

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