Archive for the ‘social web’ Category
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
This is actually a pretty compelling experience, I'm finding - I wonder what their curatorial model is - can't find confirmation of how they filter the twits. Go there live now. Full twemewar happening here.
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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 ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
I'm chin-deep in MUSE3 planning (excuse the outdated site at them thar preceding link - that's part of what I'm working on), gearing up for our Showcase Proposal Forum this Friday (check back on Friday morning with that link for the webcast), adjusting my Web 2 specs after all the ...
Posted in blogs, comprehensive exams, conferences, culture & society, events, indie, mobile, northernvoice, social web | No Comments »
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 ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
I was recently asked by the Songwriters' Association of Canada (SAC) to submit a briefing on why file sharing is inevitable, and why a levy system for ISPs makes sense. (The SAC is in the process of submitting a proposal along these lines to the Canadian government, in light of ...
Posted in P2P, appropriation, art, creative industries, critical constructivism, culture & society, culture industries, file sharing, internet, law, open source, policy, social web, technology, theory | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
So I'm diving straight into my comprehensives now. I'm building lists and checking them twice (and more). While building these reading lists is in many ways a very personal journey, I've decided to blog about the process so that I might get feedback from unexpected locales, harnessing the "wisdom of ...
Posted in 4s, Actor network theory, PhD studies, SCOT, STS, appropriation, art, blogs, comprehensive exams, creative industries, critical constructivism, culture & society, culture industries, fandom, internet, online communities, open source, political economy, social bookmarking, social networks, social web, sociology of art, taste, technology, theory, wikia | 2 Comments »
