By Ian, on December 14th, 2009 YouTube – The Social Media Guru. Have you even read my online internet blog? It’s mega-awesome. By Ian, on April 26th, 2009 You’ve probably already seen this, even though it was published just a week ago. It’s had nearly two million views in the last week, over 6,000 comments on YouTube itself, and been plugged into 826 blog posts. Among its honours, it’s the #2 – Top Favourited (All Time) – Sport. If it weren’t Continue reading Hype Cycle By Ian, on October 15th, 2008 Just watched Be Kind Rewind on PirateCity. In the interests of research, I tested an illegal video service that streams movies for free. The quality is fairly poor — somewhere between YouTube and Vimeo. And not ideally, I watched this widescreen movie in 4:3. Jack Black seems a lot slimmer nowadays. As I am sure you know, Continue reading Sweded By Ian, on March 21st, 2008 I was totally taken by surprise by this one. (A little further research has revealed that it was created by WCRS, and that there is some controversy over the originality of the idea. What a shame.) Continue reading Take the Test By Ian, on November 27th, 2006 Remember last week, when CBS announced that its YouTube presence had lifted its audience figures? Letterman was up five percent in the month since they’d started posting excerpts on the service. Well, today, the BBC publishes research that suggests the contrary: Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on Continue reading Internet Helps ermm.. Harms TV? By Ian, on November 23rd, 2006 The new Wired has a great feature about the lonelygirl15 story. Lonelygirl15, you will remember, was a hit YouTube vlog about a teenage girl, her family and her ambiguous relationship with her friend Daniel. You’ll also recall that the central character, Bree, turned out to be an actress called Jessica Rose, working with a guy called Continue reading Not So Lonely | 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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