Political ads and social discussion (war)

 Online Communities, Politics, social media, social networks  2 Responses »
Apr 092008
 

This one’s doing the rounds of online communities, so you might see it in a few places:

Not quite Yes We Can by Obama but interesting use of YouTube by John McCain

The Daily Dish likes it. Slate calls it the Barney the purple dinosaur ad. One of the commenters at Ross Douthat said it reminded them of 6th grade sex education films. Me? It starts off well – contention and debate is good – then gets subverted into a support for the military actions overseas.

What’s our (Australia) most powerful and charismatic political message by a politician? Will watching and being exposed to overseas campaigns educate us on what is possible and will we start to reject staid and unenlightening speakers? Reminds me of being a studen at Uni. Most lecturers seem to strive to make their lectures as boring as batsh!t. Then along comes some hunky tutor who whips everyone into a fury with passion and knowledge and … or was that just me? Heh.

By the way, it’s intriguing to watch the nature of social spam. Most the videos that are posted “in response” have nothing to do with this video. Then there are one or two that are die-hard Republican party line vids. And a cartoon.

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SuperTuesday and mashups

 consumer gen. media, Politics, user generated content  3 Responses »
Feb 052008
 

Putting to music Barack Obama’s wonderful speech (extend the About window to read the whole Yes We Can speech)hat tip: rosshill.com.auWhich Australian politician, or which Australian speech would you choose to make a mashup of? Anyone seen a good one? No? The above video is an example of why American’s ‘get‘ collaborative communication and our election was ‘the internet as just another marketing channel’. There is a difference but it’s hard to articulate until you start to notice the absences. The black holes. Stuff that announces itself by simply not being there. We know the battle ahead will be long, Continue Reading…

Australia: social networks and ACMA acts satire

 Humour, Social Media Australia, social networks  4 Responses »
Jan 022008
 

Satire yumminess in response to Australia’s Crime and Terrorism Act and the newest one Content Act. (my post) : A Special Message from the Department of Internets CANBERRA, Australia (doi) — Today, the Federal Government is introducing legislation to help protect your family from The Internets. Every day, over two hundred thousand Australian children are exposed to harmful Internet beams. At school, at the library, even in your own home, Internets transmit OFLC-unclassified thoughts and ideas directly into your children’s brains. In order to stem the foul tide of e-terror, the Department of Internets has published a catalog of approved Continue Reading…

Politicians in Social Networks – yawn?

 blogs, Politics, Social Media Australia  2 Responses »
Sep 222007
 

Yeh I know, pollies in online communities is boring, but here’s an interesting debate at broadband’s most powerful online community, Whirlpool (WP), posted half an hour ago: Does Whirlpool have a formal policy on what sort of contributions political candidates can make here? A few weeks ago, I ran upon the site of a NSW senate candidate with very forwarding thinking IT/broadband/comms/energy related policies. I pointed it out with a thread in OtI which was promptly deleted for being promotional. Yesterday while idling in a Linux-related IRC channel, I read someone (who turned out to be the same person!) saying Continue Reading…

Wanna quickie?

 Social Media Australia, user generated content, web 2.0  10 Responses »
Aug 192007
 

Provocative title. Provocative stuffz. Dammit, embed grrrrr! YOUTUBE VIDEO Of MILNE/MAYNE PUNCHUP: Got a new lease of life – I posted it up in November last year. Since News journo, Milne, started attacking (in writing) Politician Rudd for being drunk at a girlie bar, his attack on Crikey’s Mayne (physical) is getting a fresh airing – views are going up (well over 4,000 now) and comments (a couple a day). The long tail of naughtiness? Diet Coke’s user generated advertising (Quickie – Australian campaign) is a bit weird. I can’t embed the “Short Films” (read: product placement videos) on MY Continue Reading…

Facebook: Someone bite Malcolm Turnbull already!

 Politics, Social Media Australia, social networks  12 Responses »
Jul 192007
 

Malcolm Turnbull, without budgie smugglers Malcolm Turnbull, Australian politician extraordinaire. Malcolm who blogs (oh ok, it’s his pets who blog, but we can’t vote for them). Malcolm, our soon to be Prime Minister, no? He-who-has-a-Facebook-page. So the question is this:Zombie or …. Vampire you make a hot Vampire! Tell the world! Decisions. Decisions. Can’t be of-the-community yet apart-from-the-community can one? Embrace it or reject it. In the future, pollies will be judged by how well they embrace rather than use social networks. But it’s easy to forgive Malcolm any mistakes right at this point in time (even if he never Continue Reading…