By Ian, on October 24th, 2007 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 Continue reading Why You Can’t Buy a Heineken in Second Life By Ian, on October 23rd, 2007 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 Continue reading Things I Wish I’d Said #1084 By Ian, on October 18th, 2007 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 Continue reading Kids, eh By Ian, on October 18th, 2007 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 Continue reading She or He? By Ian, on October 16th, 2007 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. Continue reading Important Notice By Ian, on October 14th, 2007 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 Continue reading Don’t Quit the Day Job | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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