Why You Can’t Buy a Heineken in Second Life

I’ve always been a bit of a sceptic about Second Life (posts passim, and I mean in its utility as a mar­keting vehicle for brands), and I won’t pretend oth­er­wise despite a day of inspir­a­tion and intel­li­gence at the Virtual Worlds Forum. Yes, I now under­stand a bit more about why brands have been investing in the network and

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Things I Wish I’d Said #1084

I was at a roundtable debate this morning about Citizen Journalism (update: rather ungen­erous of me not to mention this was hosted by the excel­lent people from iStock­Photo). Everyone saying they want to embrace CJ as part of their forward strategy. I suggest that main­stream media is attempting to contain rather than embrace conversations.

Me (to

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Kids, eh

via. Communities Dominate Brands

 

And appar­ently the most blogged about video on the ‘net at the moment. The URL of the creators, fleet­ingly referred to towards the end is http://www.mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/

“… the basic idea is to create a 3 minute video high­lighting the most important char­ac­ter­istics of students today – how they

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She or He?

In my news­letter to NMK readers today, I referred to the Internet as a ‘she’. Reading that back once it arrived in my inbox, I wasn’t entirely sure how I felt about that. I think I’m happy about refer­ring to websites as ‘she’ — they are akin to vessels like ships and cars, and also dom­i­ciles — those

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Important Notice

The National Roads Safety Council has done extensive testing on a newly designed seat belt. Results show that acci­dents can be reduced by as much as 45% when the belt is properly installed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

via. my brother-​​in-​​law. Sorry.

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Don’t Quit the Day Job

Interesting piece on paidcontent.org, covering a talk by Henry Copeland, CEO and founder of BlogAds, a network which serves adverts to par­ti­cip­ating blogs. Copeland says that only around 100 of the 1500 blogs his company works with are likely to be self-​​​​sustaining from advert­ising — and these are the creme-​​​​de-​​​​la creme — par­ti­cip­a­tion in the BlogAds

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