I’ve felt a bit like a voice in the wilderness, claiming Australians blog, we just don’t do it in a centralised, countable way (Blogger and WordPress are overseas sites). Certainly there have been some PR and media bloggers who say that Australians don’t blog or engage in User Generated Content (Consumer Generated Media). They were…
The News reported this yesterday: The West Australian gets beaten up by media academics PAPER TIGER: The West Australian editor Paul Armstrong has rejected claims by senior journalism academics that the newspaper’s dubious reporting is costing it the community’s trust. | Paige Taylor February 21, 2008 05:40am SENIOR journalism academics have attacked The West Australian…
I wrote a few paragraphs recently for The Venture Group newsletter – the pdfs from that issue are gone, but what I wrote seems to be popular. Note the top right: in the next years the market for web 2.0 companies will get standardized. It seems to me that investment companies really do want to…
why aren’t these ads embeddable? *puzzled*I want to make fun of them *pouts* But seriously, how hard is it to give people an embed code? Anyone? I might be a consumer, but I’m happy to display ads that I want to discuss. And at the end of the day that’s what you want, right? People…
Or maybe I should say revenue back to the consumer for consumer generated content: O2 and 3 Merge Communities Network rivals O2 and 3 are going to merge their two user-generated content communities into a single collective. The new community, to be named Eyevibe, will see O2’s LookatMe and 3’s SeeMeTV video services bundled together…
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…
Former founders of Lastminute.com Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman have rolled out a home decorating site. Mydeco allows users to plan their decorating with 1.4m products by 500 retailers and rolled out today. I think it’s in the UK.Australian DIY websites and communities include MyVirtualHome – scan the plans of your home, upload them,…
I first thought it said “waiting for something to bing” – as in email, facebook or twitter notifications. Hmmm actually social networking isn’t a waste of a companies time and money. But it’s a little hard to convince non-believers. Some random facts about my foray into social media, user generated content and online communities: and…
Caveat: There’s a lot of different ways of slicing and dicing social networks. In this post, I want to show the three fundamental approaches that social networks use for activity around social media. If I was writing about identity, profile and management of friends, it would be a whole different grouping of examples.. I think….
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