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• Seth’s “Bobcast” - already exists

  I am working through a backlog of blog reading today and spotted Seth Godin’s post Bobcasting (and Google Reader).
  In the post he covers a few points, but specifically related to “Bobcasting” he writes:
  I want to suggest something that takes no new technology but could have a big impact on the way you do business: Bobcasting.
  I […]

  Posted on Jul 30.07 to Fresh Powder, Social media, Mobile Web   

• Darfur in the (social) media spotlight

  Like many other people I subscribe to iTunes’ weekly email newsletter to keep up-to-date with the latest releases on the iTunes store.
  I was pleasantly surprised yesterday to see this in my inbox:

  It is a promotion for a release of John Lennon cover songs by famous artists aiming to raise awareness of the genocide taking place […]

  Posted on Jun 28.07 to Social media   

• Toyota test social media waters

  And succeeds, it would appear. Laurel points to Toyota’s Greek blogging experiment.
  The money quote in her post:
  …bloggers only allegiance is to their passion and their conscience. So if your car (product/service) sucks, a magazine might be ‘even handed’ in their review. After all, you also pay for advertising, and they want to be invited […]

  Posted on Jun 21.07 to Social media   

• Flickr = censorship?

  Sounds like it. I’ve been following a thread from Thomas Hawk on his Flickr profile for the past month or so on actions by Flickr to censor comments on discussion threads and certain photos because of spurious claims of copyright ownership from companies who actually were violating the photographers rights themselves.
  Now it seems the […]

  Posted on Jun 17.07 to Social media   

• Social sustainability online

  Olivia Ratten, a design student at Swinburne University, approached me to do a quick interview for a uni assignment on "social sustainability" - what follows is the results of the interview.
  But first, a tiny bit of context. I wasn’t sure entirely what Olivia meant by "social sustainability", so I asked and this was her […]

  Posted on Jun 08.07 to Sustainability, Social media   

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