Sometimes you just have to go and see a site; with I can Has Cheezburger being mentioned twice yesterday, it was time to take a closer look. First of all it was being discussed as one of the extremely successful WordPress blogs at the WordPress meetup and then I got home to see that Tara […]
Urban Planning in Second Life
I love the concept that a Paris residents association is asking members to propose a new design for the redesign of a central part of the city. The association is urging locals to come up with their own ideas for the area’s gardens and post them in the online world of Second Life, where people […]
Blogger Conduct
I’ve read Tim O’Reilly’s Blogger Code of Conduct and agree with a fair few other folk that it is not for me, although it may be perfectly useful for Tim’s sites. I assume these are group written sites, otherwise the use of the Royal ‘we’ is amusing. However Kathy Sierra rightly adds to the comments […]
Future Of Online Advertising
Through a nice opportunity posted on Seth Godin’s blog, I managed to get a ticket for the Future of Online Advertising conference being run by Carson Systems, Having attended their Future of Web Apps day in London last year, I know these guys could put on a good conference, pulling together some top presenters. Looking […]
Podcamp Report
I think you could describe PodcampNYC as a success. Not sure what the post-mortem will bring, but everyone I spoke to seemed to enjoy it. I’ve got sessions to write up and thoughts to process, but in the meantime, just take a read of the CNET piece which has also landed up in the New […]
PodCampNYC
Tomorrow is Podcamp NYC, an unconference that has grown way beyond that into a monster, with over 1200 registered users. A decision was made pretty early to solicit session proposals and then to schedule them – otherwise there are just far too many going to have it self-organise. Although there is one plan as you […]
Good Friday
This is weird as it is the first Good Friday I’ve worked for years, there’s no 4 day weekends here for religious holidays, just the secular ones to go shopping. I’m going to point you over to Rachel North for a wonderful recollection of days gone by. No memories like that for me, just a […]
Vidmeter Report on Copyrighted videos
Vidmeter, a company I have written about before have produced an excellent analysis of videos removed by copyright owners from YouTube. The report can be found on their News page. In just over 3 months, they tracked the top viewed videos on the site, totaling 6,725 videos. Of these, they found that on 621 videos […]
ORG Party and Raffle
Next week, the ORG are holding a party, to help build membership. If you in town (the town in question being London), go along and bring a friend who is not a member – get them to join!. As well as the great party, they are holding a raffle – and you do not have […]
Serenity the best Sci-fi film
Serenity has topped a poll from SFX magazine of the best sci-fi films. Given the strong and extremely well organised fan-base, I wonder how many votes they managed to encourage?
Blogher Business Roundup
For the ease of sending this link around at work, I’m pulling together all the links I have from this conference to make it easier for me! (thanks for an email from elise for these) My Notes from A brief history of Social Media plus notes from the same session from Mir over at Blogher […]
Mesh in Toronto
I enjoyed being on a panel at Blogher the other week, far more than the one time I’ve given a presentation. So i was really chuffed to be asked to be on a panel at Mesh at the end of May in Toronto. After the reports I dug up about last year’s inaugural event it […]
Sierra and Locke update
Last week there were a lot of words written about the threats made to Kathy Sierra and her reaction to them. Unfortunately many of the word accused people behind the offending sites before allowing them to put their side of the story and they were subject to some of the same kind of behaviour, the […]
BBC DRM Poll
The BBC have updated their speculation about the Apple/EMI Press conference today and now think it will be a DRM announcement. As part of the story, they are running a poll asking us what we think of DRM on music. Wonder if the current results would surprise the record labels with all their previous talk […]
DRM or The Beatles
When companies what to announce big news, they call press conferences. Which means the press get to know something is going on and can do some digging, leading to speculation such as this from the WSJ (behind paywall) In a major reversal of the music industry’s longstanding antipiracy strategy, EMI Group PLC is set to […]
The Commercialisation of Twitter
Update – Twitterati was an April fool (sort of). With utter predictability and inevitability, commercial interests invade Twitter. When first showed it to colleagues some of them were asking questions about how to market on it, others were just generally fascinated. But now we are getting into the real activity. First of all we see […]
BBC on the Phone
Despite the data charges, having 3G on the phone on the phone in the Uk was fun, offering a lot more than is currently available in the US. As part of the available offering from Vodafone, Orange and 3, the BBC are going to trial 3 of their channels, BBC1, BBCNews and BBC3 over the […]
April Fools again
It’s that time of year again and the fools are popping up all over the web, with a good list over at Wikipedia. You can take your time looking through them, there’s bound to be something that took your fancy. Google again seems to take some of the most effort with 2 very nice ones. […]