The Archives
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07.16.08What will the future of media look like?If you attended Ross Dawson's Future of Media Summit in Sydney or Silicon Valley yesterday, there are a few core take-aways you might have been left with: the artificial split/war between journalism and new media prevails everyone - PR, journalism, advertising and broadcasting - is trying to figure out this social networking and social media stuff (and I guess that's good for people like me who can help with that) old media is changing and coming into the new world, although the old "pump it out and they will consume" attitude still persists closed formats and ...
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06.18.08Slouching towards intertwingularityUPDATE: and now, there's video! Thanks to the guys at StickyAds and MediaHunter. PubCamp 2008 - Stephen Collins from Acidlabs social media presentation from Sticky Advertising on Vimeo These slides and the accompanying text are my presentation from the PubCamp events in Sydney and Melbourne. Enjoy! If you're listening in, apologies for how fast I talk. I was on the clock! | View | Upload your own Through the Looking Glass So, the Internet's a teenager now - 16 years old and quite the rebel. As it hit puberty, we all started taking real notice of how it was behaving. Not all that notice was ...
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05.05.08Tuning outDigital music and digital rights management has been a bone of contention for several years now. The music labels continually cry foul as they allege that illegal music downloads are doing them irreparable harm while well-founded research seems to indicate the opposite. My personal opinion is that DRM, as envisaged by the labels and generally executed is broken - it stops me getting access to the music I want to listen to in the way I want. It's either restricted in place for listening (CD, limited number of computers, etc.) or restricted in format (tried getting iTunes bought music out of ...
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04.17.08My social network connection policy and that “friend” thingThe whole relationship spectrum in social networks is something that bugs me more than a little. I live with it, as I've no choice if I want to use these tools, but most networks don't adequately express the range of associations we have with people. The nuances of relationship that we express on a daily basis with people we work, play and live with aren't nearly adequately expressed online. Something like the XFN microformat has more nuance, although not nearly enough. There needs to be more. So, on Facebook, which is a pretty complex social network, you're either my friend, or not. ...
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04.10.08CafePress - great customer serviceFor BarCamp Canberra #1, we've used CafePress to print our t-shirts (we even have a store!). Sure, CafePress are US-based and we're in Australia, but the opportunity to do a limited run, custom orders for early registrations and pricing pretty close to what we can get here is a compelling proposition. The t-shirt order arrived today, and they look good. Except the dark shirts. The black and charcoal grey shirts look crap. The blue from the logo, despite being provided in a form that was supposed to be fine for dark colors just doesn't work. So, first thing I did was fire ...
