Social engagement in virtual worlds
Saturday, July 29th, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Film, Gaming, Generation C, Marketing, Music, Participation, Philosophy, Statistics, Trends, Virtual Worlds, Web/Tech | Comments OffFascinatiing blog by Nedra Weinreich Spare change Nedra says Okay, I'll admit it. I spent much of the night exploring Second Life, a virtual world that combines 3-D graphics, social interaction, events, commerce and entertainment. After reading a post ...
store wars join the organic rebellion
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 Posted in Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Film, Humour | No Comments »a wonderful take on why we should be eating organic May the organic farm be with you! :-) Use the farm and stretch out your peelings..... Even my son of 8 years old and my daughter of 17 watched this and thought it ...
YouTube hits 100m video views per day
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 Posted in Broadcast, Convergence, Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Film, Generation C, Identity, Media, News, Participation, Society, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Internet video site YouTube has said its users are now watching more than 100 million videos per day. YouTube is the leading net video download site in the US, with 29% of the country's multimedia market, according to traffic monitor ...
Media and identity in Japan
Thursday, July 13th, 2006 Posted in Culture, Engagement Marketing, Film, Gaming, Generation C, Health, Identity, Media, Society, Sociology | No Comments »The first Gran Cyber Café opened in 1999. Today there are 10, serving some 5,000 people a day. Each has a slightly different orientation - some are geared to teenagers, some to salarymen - but the atmosphere is the same ...
Google video goes international
Thursday, July 13th, 2006 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Film, Media, Networks, Strategy, Television, Trends, Uncategorized, Web/Tech | No Comments »Via the BBC Google has signed up a series of partners who will provide clips for its fledgling video service. The deals mean that visitors will be able to watch Wimbledon matches, documentaries and sitcoms via the Google video ...
The elephant’s dream
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006 Posted in Culture, Film, Generation C, Media, News, Participation, Strategy, Web/Tech | No Comments »Elephant's Dream is the world?s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license The short film was created ...
The young disengage with politics
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Administrative, Books, Broadcast, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Data, Economics, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Film, Gaming, Generation C, Identity, Law, Link Economy, Marketing, Mobile, Retail, Search Econmics, Society, Statistics, Television, Trends, US Airways, iPhone | No Comments »A study co-produced by the study co-produced by the Hansard Society on e-democracy and OfCom investigates why young people are not engaging with the political process However it is important to be realistic about the obstacles facing young ...
Fast-food giants feeling heat from the film of the book.
Friday, June 2nd, 2006 Posted in Ethics, Film, Government & Politics, Health, Law, Media, News, Society, Trends | 1 Comment »With the premiere of the anti-junk food film Fast Food Nation in Cannes last Friday, America is about to find itself in an intense, potentially messy, summer-long food fight. Reported the Observer Ohhhhh did someone say ...
Hollywood - The silent movies of the 21st Century
Monday, May 15th, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Darwin, Film, Generation C, Philosophy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Cliché: A leopard never changes its spots. And in today's world this means that companies born in the industrial revolution, and, reared in the industrial revolution's mighty afterglow, struggle with the economics, and, culture of today's world. Rupert Murdoch famously ...
When push comes to pull: the new economy & culture of the networked society
Thursday, March 30th, 2006 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Broadcast, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Data, Distribution, Economics, Education, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Ethics, Film, Gaming, Generation C, Government & Politics, Health, Law, Link Economy, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Networks, News, Newspapers, Participation, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Retail, Science, Search Econmics, Second Life, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Statistics, Strategy, Television, Trends, Virtual Worlds, Web/Tech, Weblogs | 3 Comments »I have been reading the Aspen Institutes latest ouvre, entitled When push comes to pull. The new economy & culture of networking technology Which resonates deeply with Communities Dominate Brands. David Bollier the author states If the world seems a confusing ...
