31 March, 2008 – 12:37 pm
Next week I will be one of the guest speakers at digitalks in Vienna. digitalks is an initiative founded and organized by Meral Akin-Hecke who has managed to keep this round of talks free for all participants. Have a look here for more info.
If you wanna hear about everything possible and impossible on Social Networks, [...]
A few months ago I wrote about the fans, who brought back their favourite TV programme Jericho by protesting online, getting organized and sending CBS about 18 tonnes of peanuts. Now CBS has announced that next week’s episode will be the last one. The ratings weren’t high enough for them.
Naturally, fans are rioting again. [...]
17 March, 2008 – 10:19 am
This morning there was a wad of good introductory / explanatory articles in AdAge that I want to share with you (in case you are not reading AdAge – which, if you are a communicator, is inexcusable).
This wee little piece is about some common misconceptions about the various Social Media and will explain the different [...]
I only have a faint memory of NZ broadband speed after 2 weeks of European broadband (all I remember is that it was, well, like dial up in the rest of the world… That may be an exaggeration, but it is definitely slower). Today I was delighted though to read a report that for the [...]
The waiting is over: the EU has allowed Google to buy DoubleClick, for a mere US$3.1 billion. Everybody is writing about it, but the French are the only ones I’ve seen who called it what it is right in the heading: “Europe allows Google to dominate online advertising”.
With the acquisition of DoubleClick, Google is securing [...]
I read this interesting post yesterday about the use of Social Media by activists. I have talked about Social Media as a tool for organising protests (remember the “Free Burma” campaign?) before, and this is kinda related.
Activists in countries where free access to the internet is limited use alternative means to get their messages out. [...]
I have moved to Europe. Currently I am in Paris, where I will be meeting filmmakers to get cracking with kickeyes and work on some loudhail projects as well.
Paris is a very mobile internet user friendly city. Whereever I go I can go online, for free! It is totally awesome. Even if there is no [...]
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