Archive for the ‘content aggregation’ Category

Twittering the Election, SIFTing Media Collections

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

If you haven't seen this already, then go check it out. Terse political opinions fly by with impunity. What to do, what to do...and how does media theory speak to this? I can anticipate hundreds of approaches, from critical political economy to social constructivism to what-have-you ... but then again, ...

Simulacre.ca Aggregation Poll

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Not one to miss an opportunity to shamelessly promote my own nascent aggregation site (nor to miss demoing out-of-the-box modules of Drupal simultaneously), I bring you a poll in which you can vote to help determine the balance of content for said aggregation site. So if you're curious about bands, ...

Up In Ur Transient Droopal. With Announcements.

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

I've finally taken the plunge into Drupal on the label/company page. I haven't had much need for a main company URL or site, so I'm going to use it as a 'social media' (is there such thing as an 'antisocial' medium?) sandbox - essentially an experiment in multiple feed aggregation ...

Northern Voice 2008 - accreted notes

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Rough notes from today's conference... 13:30-14:00: An afternoon discussion with a Vancouver City Planner, a rep from mag.no.lia, some guy from Portland, and many others. the challenges for cities=adopting social media for public participation initiatives. how do people get something back? more than just "thanks for coming". stewardship is important. but how do ...

Why mobile services are not being adopted :: Apptrigger

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Survey results paid for by Texas-based company AppTrigger (the study itself was conducted by LM Research & Marketing) suggest that UK mobile operators could be doing much more to promote adoption of advanced mobile services among their subscribers. The data purportedly support the conclusion that mobile phone operators are largely locked ...

Single Sign-On and Content Aggregation: a Preliminary Analysis of their Potential in Facilitating Progressive Social Change

Monday, December 17th, 2007

What is the relation between the technology of single sign-on and community mobilization? There are two approaches to - or models for - the twin issues of convenience and security in our current era of mass content browsing: (1) single sign-on (OpenID, MicroID) and (2) content aggregation (Jaiku, Pageflakes, Readr). Both ...