Archive for February, 2006

Bloggin’ phones

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Sony Ericsson will integrate Blogger into a new mobiles. Bloggers on Blogger will be able to update from their mobiles.
…consumers are turning more and more often to the Internet as a means of sharing information or images in personal blogs," Jan Wareby, corporate executive vice president for Sony Ericsson, said in a statement. "By [...]

Two pieces on MySpace

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Two things to read:
A Wired article this morning.
Danah Boyd’s article on MySpace.

Reach out…part 2

Monday, February 27th, 2006

This morning in the NYTimes there’s an article that says Google is offering a service by which people will click through on their ads and be connected by voice to the seller. I saw awhile back that e-Bay is going to do something similar. That’s why they bought Skype. It all runs on voice over [...]

Reach out and touch someone

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

Last week Randy Moss circulated the link to a paper based on a speech by Dana Boyd to the AAAS about why kids are so nuts about MySpace. Communications technologies have created a whole new sensibility about what it means to have a social network, and young people are flocking to MySpace despite the fact [...]

Podcasts with photos

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

I was recently on the BetterPhoto site and discovered that Jim Miotke has a digital photography podcast. Jim has paired this podcast with photo examples as an effective teaching device. As a budding photographer, I find this very helpful. I also find this an interesting social networking concept. We already have Flickr as well as [...]

“Buddies” for clinical trials

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Stowe Boyd says the center of the universe is the buddy list. Well, that might be especially true for colon cancer clinical trial participants. A new kind of mentoring program has been announced by the Colon Cancer Alliance.
Colon cancer patients considering participation in a clinical trial can
now access a first-of-its-kind peer-to-peer support system, the Buddy
Program, [...]

Recommended viewing

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

NetSquared it at it again: augmenting their project with new streams of communication. I recommend two things you can find at Net2:

A vlog of Alexandra Samuel shot by Geek TVs Eddie Codel at NetSqured’s Northern Voice meeting in Vancouver, BC. A good explanation of what the opportunity is for nonprofits with new media.
NetSquared’s Community Builder [...]

Wanna used buggy whip?

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

A columnist for the Guardian likened today’s Windows PCs to the Model T ford of the 1920s. PCs brought computing to the masses just as the Model T brought motoring. But the whole state of current IT is a funky mix of stuff that falls far from a great communication system. Well, at least we [...]

Jeez, another one

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

The news seems full of bits about the disruptive nature of new online technology this morning. From the NYTimes
The second-generation Internet technologies — combined with
earlier tools like the Web itself and e-mail — are drastically
reducing the cost of communicating, finding things and distributing and
receiving services online. That means a cost leveling that puts small
companies on [...]

The dissolving of institutions?

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Somewhere over the weekend I saw a comment (can’t find it now) that the new technologies of online media are dissolving the forces of our traditional institutions. That came to mind when reading an article on blogs and censorship in China this morning in the Washington Post.
With as many as 16 million people in China [...]