Podcasts – or more importantly time shifted audio content – are, I believe, one of the great information accelerators of our age. I subscribe to a number of feeds mainly from NPR in the US, the BBC in the UK and the ABC in Australia. I listen to them in the car on my commute [...]
Over the last few weeks, perhaps a month, I have noticed Face Book morphing into something that is quite interesting… There are a number of quite distinct groups of people that seem to form the community, well my community anyway. This observation is based on the News Feed feature… The largest grouping of users (friends) [...]
Unashamed Commerce Division (I am a director and shareholder in Vquence) Vquence has just launched a new product. It is a low-touch Online Engagement Platform. It helps VIPs to kick-start their engagement in online social networks and make the most of it for their career. With this product Vquence is initially targeting politicians, who want [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote about Twitters lack of character space being it’s biggest drawback for the medium to be a serious political critique or voter feedback tool. I said: “Well I refer to the limitations of one of the feedback mediums used which is more suitable to “Look at Me – Grab [...]
The statistics tell a different story. But they also show that there is a trend toward newer media: – Blogs are now used by 24% of Internet users, up from 13% in 2006 – Social networks are now used by 26% of Internet users, up from 17% in 2006 – Videocasts are now used by [...]
Continuing the thoughts noted earlier by myself and Tom about Rupert Murdoch's announcement – along with others (funny about that) – to make his online content paid for: It used to be that you would buy a newspaper because you wanted to get a wrap up of the events of the last 24 hours. It [...]
I commute by road when I am not catching the train. That is typically at least a one hour journey if I go to the UoW campus or a two hour journey if I go to Sydney. I listen to a lot of podcasts during those trips. One that I regularly find quite brilliant is [...]
Have you noticed how the media feeds and then moves on? Now the economy has pushed just about everything off the front pages – the US election, climate change, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, Chinese chemical pollution of baby's milk… Over the last couple of days I have read a couple of things that [...]
Not surprising to see that Hilary Clinton's polling numbers went down after it was revealed that her story about running under sniper fire in Bosnia was a fabrication. People with high public profiles are the first people to really suffer from being Tubed. There is enough archival news footage out there to hoist them by [...]
This is a video that I discovered on Home Page Daily. Those guys are doing some of the best aggregation of video available on the web today for people who are awake and who care about the planet and the issues. Definitely worth visiting. Unfortunately they haven't yet figured out how to run personalized RSS [...]