… 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…
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…
…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…
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,…
I speak sometimes about Olive Riley to people who insist on throwing the “only kids and geeks use social media sites” at me. Olive Riley blogged at http://www.allaboutolive.com.au and was a popular blogger. In the same vein as geriatric1927 on YouTube I guess. The article from SMH (hat tip: Gary Hayes) World’s oldest blogger makes…
Another Social Networking evening *pats AIMIA on the head* poor loves. 🙂 AIMIA connects interactive agencies with interactive agencies – a nice niche network. They pull their speakers and their content and their relationships from this small pool to offer to their events and networking evenings with drinkies. One ends up up hearing what one…
Synopsis. Cannes viral video award was won by Speed Undressing – and mightily pissed off the “client” JC Penney. Agency User Generated Content Anyone? (AUGC) I wrote earlier about Save Our Advertising: speak up, get with it, get engaged with the online community, connect. And I’m speaking to the advertising agencies themselves, not their clients….
Beautiful new site – mashup of tags and Flickr photos and galaxies of planets called Tag Galaxy:The white thing glows and bounces around.I put in ButterfliesIt auto created planets made from related tagsUnfortunately, flat pictures JPGs can’t how you how to make this full screen, or how the photos fly on, or how to spin…
EDIT: thanks to ServantOfChaos for pointing me to TrukStop I was thinking about how we’ve always added our two cents worth to content we like. When I was growing up, Doc Neeson and The Angels had this song:Pristine version, from telly, but expletives are added in YouTube comments *laughs* After Doc Neeson (?) sang the…
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