… sorry about this blog. It was the best I could do with the information I had at hand at the time. Oh and keep up the yoga, your future future self will thank you for it. Heh.


I subscribe to mwesch (lecturer who made the Machine is Us/ing Us) – one of the few RSS subscriptions thats actually worth checking out regularly IMHO.

Participatory Observation – his anthropology students have to participate in YouTube. Amazing video, if you see nothing else this year, see this. But as always, your mileage may vary (ymmv).
… and the ‘future self’ is the one that will come back next week, next month, next year and read what we are writing now. The long tail of content leading us from today’s profile to tomorrow’s identity. Makes you think, no?

Too much in this video, jam packed, but worth the discovery.

 

That title Corporate Social Media looks funny doesn’t it? I mean, some people still think of ‘social‘ as ‘party‘. Like, Corey from Melbourne on MySpace. They don’t realise that ‘social‘ means ‘society‘ – friends and family, yes, but also sports heroes and politicians and other leaders, and those we deem tabloid worthy – the Angelina Jolie’s and Britney’s of our social sphere. I wonder if we had changed from online communities to customer communities or consumer networks if it would’ve looked less jarring? Corporate Customer Media or similar? I think companies will move their Corporate Social Responsibility front and centre Continue Reading…

 

I don’t want to get into the fiasco that is PBL media and Channel Nine axing the two best information shows but this quote from The Australian made me laugh: Mr Law said the evidence showed Nine’s revenue streams were sound, but cost control remained a key imperative in the current environment. “Nine is performing well in terms of consistent delivery of 25-54 demographics – which is the key audience for advertising share – but it is always a matter of judgment, striking the balance between chasing revenue and controlling costs,” he said. Wow you have the opportunity to market Continue Reading…

 

EDIT: Add 215 FriendFeed subs… can’t believe I forgot FF! Why don’t bloggers tell their statistics – visitor, comments, rss feed subscribers, email subs etc – more often, and more publicly? Is it that we think our friends/competitors (often the same in this social media industry, heh) will giggle at our inadequate tools? Is it that though we live by the mantra, niche not broadcast, we feel humbled by The Sydney Morning Herald having (either 350,000 circulation or 1,118,000 readers) on a Saturday, even though they are spread out over Domain, Drive, Spectrum and so on. By the way is Continue Reading…

 

Social Network Telecommunications view presentation (tags: open-mesh fon telecommunications to) Whew, I just got home from presenting on Social Network Telecommunications – the Consumer as ISP at Broadband Australia 2008 conference. Anyway, I thought I’d take you through the slides (above), which develop further my other open mesh blog posts. The First Bit (up to slide 6) Click or got to Flickr for full view of diagram I wanted to show that currently social media is still very 2.0. Locked down content. The user generated video or podcast or photo or mix of all goes in the content box. It’s Continue Reading…

 

… or, are blogs dying/dead?Click for readable diagram: Any content site that is pre-prepared content, single channel, little crossover, lecture style etc. The problem with blogs is they aren’t collaborative. Yes of course it’s possible to have a conversation. People can leave comments on your blog – the Dine In version. Or they can comment in their own blog post, linking back to yours (Take Out or TakeAway). Or a mashup of the two, by commenting on an RSS feed about your blog. But it ain’t collaborative. I’m speaking here specifically about Blogs. Blogs are portals for content you create Continue Reading…

 

I said on the 2WebCrew podcast ages ago that YouTube was dead and just didn’t know it. I got poohpoohed. But I think my points were valid. YouTube is trapped content. It’s not peer-to-peer, but hosted ‘static’ content. It’s like a traditional broadcast channel online. Look at how the politicians used it in the last Australia election. That’s not Social Video. It was great, for us to create content at home and then publish online, but it’s not collaborative.Enter Qik.Use your mobile phone and stream LIVE to their site. Not ‘film with your mobile and then upload, at your leisure, Continue Reading…

 

…is Game trailers. Or Machinima. Or a mashup of a film, a game, and a game engine. What came first – the passive version or the active version? All compelling questions as we see the migration of film into virtual and virtual into film. Yep, I guess cross media has always been about blurring that boundary further between fantasy (film) and fantasy (game). …. a user generated movie clip using the World of Warcraft game engine The storyline is about an upcoming release (expansion) of World of Warcraft, called Wrath of the Lich King (Hero class). We’ve no idea when Continue Reading…

 

BUMP: I’m bumping this cos I’m speaking on Friday at Broadband Australia 2008, about Community Wireless and peer-to-peer telecommunications and the implications to the digital economy that customer (social) networks with a business model will have on the Australian digital economy. If you are going to the conference, come up and say hi? Citizen telecommunications provider. Imagine signing up to BigPond or Optus broadband networks. You get sent a modem from Netcomm or Cisco or Motorola and in it is a tiny 25c chip. When you run the installer, one of the questions is: Would you like to make revenue Continue Reading…

 

Use blogs, wikis, forums, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook whatever, to tell of a world in trouble, in the year 2019. A press release from the future: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 22, 2019 Humans have 23 years to go Global Extinction Awareness System starts the countdown for Homo sapiens. PALO ALTO, CA — Based on the results of a year-long supercomputer simulation, the Global Extinction Awareness System (GEAS) has reset the “survival horizon” for Homo sapiens – the human race – from “indefinite” to 23 years. If there’s no oil left in 2019, who will drive cars…? Flickr: TitoSlack ….Police only? Superstruct Continue Reading…

 

MacDonalds Chant Off. User Generated Content is a horrid term, how about we use Consumer Generated Media? Or even better, People Creating Stuff. From New York Times: The year was 1974: gas prices were high, inflation was rampant and an unpopular Republican occupied the White House. McDonald’s introduced a spirit-lifting jingle: “Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame-seed bun.” Now it is 2008, and McDonald’s is reviving it as a TV commercial. The company has asked consumers to write their own songs using the exact words of the jingle, and submit them to a Continue Reading…

 

First, the most important thing, from Read Write Web Article, BlogHer: Who Are Your Favorite Women Bloggers? (Thanks Marshall Kirkpatrick!!) Laurel Papworth, SilkCharm, a fabulous Australian social media consultant I’ve just recently discovered. Finally my fabulous-ness is recognised. Heh. Who do you think is an awesome female blogger – (that list is not only Australian females, so anywhere really)? Or, how about an Australian female blogger? No, dear, don’t tell me, go to ReadWriteWeb and tell them (hint: check out Meg Tsiamis site Blogpond Top 100 Australian Blogs andTop Australian Women Bloggers at CrazyMeezer or AllForWomen.com.au. I’ve shot up to Continue Reading…

 

I’d like to show you how I see Profile, Identity, Reputation and Trust online. In other words, Brand Reputation Management – even if your brand is a Brand of One (you) you might find it interesting:It’s on Flickr – thanks to GaryPHayes who was able to interpret my scrawls into diagram The quick and dirty version: We create a Profile (My Account) on a site, we make friends and add applications and groups and events to define Identity. We interact over time, offering content and comments and ratings which gains us a Reputation. That Reputation is then turned into a Continue Reading…

 

How strange! I was reading Stilgherrian‘s rant – or, open letter – to traditional journalists: Dear Journalists, how can you spout all that stuff about “standards” and then go back to your mucky business? Oh, that’s right. You’re a proper journalist. It’s all the others… Actually, I know why you’re so bitter about “those bloggers”. You worked hard on that student newspaper or street rag while living in uni-student poverty, put up with the abuse of grumpy old chain-smoking subs who bawled you out over trivial spelling mistakes, put up with the unpredictable patronage of editors who promoted everyone else Continue Reading…

 

Will social media change how we commit events to history from now on? From the About Page: Ushahidi.com is a tool for people who witness acts of violence in Kenya in these post-election times. You can report the incident that you have seen, and it will appear on a map-based view for others to see. We are working with local Kenyan NGO’s to get information and to verify each incident. What you can do is get the word out about Ushahidi so that it’s utilized to it’s full potential. This especially extends to talking to the people that you know Continue Reading…

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