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…
The Australian Financial Review today has an article by Fiona Smith Forget my books, Maister says, look at my blog. You can purchase it online for $3.30 but as, unfortunately, Fiona Smith doesn’t add any value so you might as well read the original piece plus the biography, bibliography and so on, at DavidMaister.com. Some…
Julian Lee at The Sydney Morning Herald had this to say: DOES the launch of Channel Ten’s service allowing viewers to SMS, MMS or email live video footage, pictures and text messages direct to its newsroom herald the start of a boom in user-generated content? Based on a trial during this week’s cyclone in Queensland…
Yep that’s right, tomorrow is my birthday (24 March). So y’all have to 1. Click on the picture, 2. colour it in, 3. post it to your fave online community and 4. wish me happy birthday there. OkidokiArtichoki? Technorati Tags Online Communities, Laurel Papworth, Birthday
Here’s an article by William “Proton” Vaughan in Computer Graphics World on how to market your artwork online: Get Online, Get NoticedWhen my career in 3D was beginning, I set out to meet others who, like me, shared a passion for art and animation and wanted to make a career of their craft. What I…
Business with Responsibility: socialBC is supposed to support this – the need for a CSR online-network based upon the certainty that most online-communities alone cannot build a sustainable communication and PR-network for the world’s people – a home for the ‘meeting of minds’. So the social BusinessClub probably combines the first time this areas of…
More scaremongering, this time from USA Today (article by Kasie Hunt): Al-Qaeda sympathizers are using Orkut, a popular, worldwide Internet service owned by Google, to rally support for Osama bin Laden, share videos and Web links promoting terrorism and recruit non-Arabic-speaking Westerners, according to terrorism experts and a survey of the sites. It then goes…
To see a different perspective on user generated content, check out Patricia Seybold’s blog. Although the bloglets skate the main issues and challenges and simply focus on what the companies are doing, its an excellent reference point to do a follow up and assess the quality of the collaborative content yourself by going to the…
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…
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