From the monthly archives:

April 2006

MySpace or TheirSpace?

by Laurel Papworth on April 30, 2006 · 3 comments

J. LeRoy’s Evolving Web – This guy thinks the same way I do! Scary huh? A great bloglet – who will kill myspace first? About the ‘prurient’ interests on MySpace:

Recent press stories have centered on MySpace being a den of prurient activity. With 67 million users, it seems unlikely that there would be zero prurient [...]

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Fave blogs?

by Laurel Papworth on April 30, 2006 · 1 comment

A number of people either dropped hardcopy on my desk or emailed me the article from The Sydney Morning Herald Simply the Best by David Stonehouse.
By David Sifry’s count, there are more than 33 million blogs out there. He’s in a good position to know – he’s the founder and chief executive of Technorati www.technorati.com, [...]

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Writers’ Festivals and Dialogue

by Laurel Papworth on April 30, 2006 · 0 comments

Online communities based around creativity and passion can be interesting beasts. Particularly if they exist also as an offline community because it’s intriguing to see how they play out online.
The St Kilda Writer’s Festival was on this past weekend. It’s so disappointing when they go to all the trouble to put up lots ofinformation – [...]

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The BBC’s ‘Creative Future’

by Laurel Papworth on April 28, 2006 · 0 comments

I headed over to the Financial Time’s site to a piece on the BBC and their revamp. It was titled “BBC’s warns of ‘big shock’ as it signals shake-up of its website“. The snippet they (Emiko Terazono and Aline van Duyn) gave me looked enticing…
The BBC, already the UK’s biggest online brand, yesterday signalled its [...]

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Telstra’s Talking – but are they listening?

by Laurel Papworth on April 26, 2006 · 3 comments

I did have high hopes for NowWeAreTalking (see my bloglet and subsequent comments) Telstra’s attempt to build an online community around it’s services. But. The Age (Helen Westerman and Rebecca Urban) has an article, Telstra makes a discourtesy call.
TELSTRA’S online mouthpiece nowwearetalking.com.au likes to do some plain speaking.But a recent posting taking a swing at [...]

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The Evolution of Online Dating

by Laurel Papworth on April 26, 2006 · 3 comments

… well, that’s what Naughty America: The Game website says.
I love the L.A. Weekly, mostly cos they are multi-device friendly. I know that you, dear reader, like to print out your newspaper article and read them the old way, but some of us really do use Palm Pilots, mobiles and wotnot to read our daily [...]

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Platial.com – Real Place meets Cyber Space

by Laurel Papworth on April 24, 2006 · 2 comments

I came across Platial.com, the PEOPLE’S ATLAS, Leave YOUR MARK on the WORLD, while surfing the ‘net.

They said:

The specific concept for building an online, shared mapping tool came after Di-Ann and I had moved to Amsterdam in 2004. We encouraged a lot of people to come visit, to stay with us, to hang out. But [...]

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Media Watch Forums – Disappointing

by Laurel Papworth on April 20, 2006 · 0 comments

In Qui Custodiet Custodes, I commented on the program Media Watch losing relevance as the media bloggers swarm. Well today I went back to see how their forums were coming along. Not well. There’s very few threads and posts. The forums are over moderated and the online community seems to be destined to pat Media [...]

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The Famous Five and The Missing Doofer

by Laurel Papworth on April 20, 2006 · 4 comments

Forums finger doof deadbeats!!11!!! So says David Braithwaite of the Sydney Morning Herald.
Forums on doof community websites such as australiens.net and oztrance.com are buzzing with chatter about undesirable gatecrashers at the Good Friday, Amazing Sunday event.
Well I went to australiens.net thread (for the Alien in every Australian) and there were 17 posts. That is not [...]

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User Generated Advertising – Western Australia

by Laurel Papworth on April 19, 2006 · 0 comments

BTW The Australian article I mention below didn’t take into account this competition – that Cheryll in the office put me onto – Western Australia’s Postcard campaign. So cute. You pick a postcard and have to finish the sentence A Real Australian…” Do you like my entry? Wish me luck!
I’m not sure if it will [...]

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User Generated Ads – from The Australian

by Laurel Papworth on April 19, 2006 · 0 comments

Well, Simon Canning from The Australian starts off his article Home made commercials put wind up professionals with:
IF you hate advertising now, when it is made by professionals, imagine how you will feel when the amateurs take over.
I’ve commented a couple of times on user generated advertising – the L’Oreal campaign caught my eye as [...]

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Updating things

by Laurel Papworth on April 19, 2006 · 0 comments

I just updated How Much is Your Blog Worth (see right hand bar). It doesn’t update automatically so I have to adjust the code every so often.
I also applied for Gmail (Google) for my domain name. Which is world.com.au if anyone is interested. I wonder if they’ll give it to me? I got the tip [...]

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A Good Read (blogwise)

by Laurel Papworth on April 2, 2006 · 0 comments

I picked up the book by blogger Belle de Jour around Xmas. Interesting account of a London call girl. Very amusing and a little sad. An “at the coalface” account of the ins and outs of the sex trade. Because of her blog, Belle has won awards, the publishing contract, and now writes a column [...]

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