Skype May Be The Biggest Winner From The Web 2.0 Era
Skype does not get the respect it deserves, because eBay not only publicly admitted to overpaying for it but is making a mess of its core business. Another ...
Western internet censorship: The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? - Wikileaks
Are Blogs Losing Their Authority To The Statusphere?
So why do I believe that blog authority is losing its authority?
It goes back to the definition of authority. Links from blogs are no longer the only measurable game in town. Potentially valuable linkbacks are increasingly shared in micro communities and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed and they are detouring attention and time away from formal blog responses.
The Wounded U.S. Newspaper Industry Lost $7.5 Billion in Advertising Revenues Last Year
Last year was the worst on record for the U.S. newspaper industry. Total advertising revenues (both print and online) declined 16.6 percent to $37.85 billion
New Gartner research report on the state of Google.
Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2009
Journalists who work online are more optimistic about the future of their profession than are news people tied to more traditional media platforms, but at best their optimism is an uneasy one, according a new survey of members of the Online News Association produced by the Association and the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism
EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
Etherpad lets multiple people work on the same text simultaneously
Thinkature - Real-time collaboration for the web
About Thinkature
Thinkature brings the richness of in-person, visual communication to the web by placing instant messaging inside a visual workspace. Use it as a collaboration environment, a meeting room, a personal web-based whiteboard, or something entirely new.
Beyond convergence: Confluence and the role of advertising
New Internet technologies allow online users to create content. Some of this content is brand information that traditionally developed and promoted by advertising agencies. Agencies have reacted to this phenomenon in different ways: some embrace it, some ignore it, and others encourage employees to act as consumers in developing content, perhaps in questionable ways. This essay presents a concept called confluence culture to describe the changes that the advertising industry is currently undergoing relative to the rise of digital culture. We argue that all advertisers, in order insure their relevancy, must recognize the role confluence culture plays in their work.
MediaShift . Can Technorati Beat Google at Blog Search? | PBS
Can technorati beat google at the blog search game? Seems to be doing so at the moment.
Websites, Internet, software, databases — Australian Copyright Council
Links and documents from the Australian Copyright Council about publishing on the web
Last.fm to Charge Subscription Fee for Many International Listeners - ReadWriteWeb
ISP Refuses to Admit Customers Are BitTorrent Pirates | TorrentFreak
Google Me Business Cards: Best or Worst Idea Ever?
This is a very tiny look at the idea of Google business cards, but given how easy it is to confuse people online, or even for someone to post abusive content under a domain name with your name in it, I'm not sure that encouraging people to Google you - especially for business - is the best idea.
James Gibson - Google's New Monopoly? - washingtonpost.com
The company just made it more difficult for others to compete with its Book Search service.
Google & the Future of Books - The New York Review of Books
An article by Robert Darnton from The New York Review of Books, February 12, 2009
ICTlogy » Towards a comprehensive definition of digital skills
Research on the Information Society, the Digital Divide and Information and Communication Technologies for development
Chain Thriller! - James Patterson & Borders
Borders chain thriller found on Twitter
Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars
Google search gets Aussie algorithm update - BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au
Google is today rolling out a key upgrade to the algorithm powering its search engine which is based on "Australian-made" technology originally developed by a PhD student at the University of New South Wales.
A load of Twitter - Times Online
anti-Twitter???
"Twittering stems from a lack of identity."
"Using Twitter suggests a level of insecurity"
I believe there is a neurological study in here somewhere...
Yet Barack Obama uses it, what does this say about US politics???
RailCorp targets rogue iPhone app
NSW state corporation RailCorp has threatened a Sydney software developer with legal action if he fails to withdraw a train timetable application that is currently the second most popular application in its category in Apple's App Store.
The Triumph of Expediency: The Impact of Google Scholar on Library Instruction
An Opportunity, Not a Crisis: How Google Is Changing the Individual and the I...
Confessions of a Librarian or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Google
Google in perspective: understanding and enhancing student search skills
46% of the Digg Front Page is Controlled by 50 Websites | Soshable | Social Media Blog
Sweet tweets: making Twitter sing for you - web - Technology - smh.com.au
The ins & outs and popularity of Twitter - "So how do you differentiate from one user to another? How do you find people with similar interests? How do you make your tweets sing louder than all others?"
The Future of Reading - Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading? - Series - NYTimes.com
Actually, I'm doing my search on ebook. This artical is about the swift public reading habits, which are shaping by the net. Online dosen't mean that people don't read any more, it is sort of alternative reading style. As well, it doesn't mean that readers don't go any further about a particular topic, they just reflect more.
Creative Destruction and Copyright | The Technology Liberation Front
One of the recurring internecine debates in the world of libertarian tech policy is over the philosophical status of copyright. On one side, you've got the camp
Facebook Privacy Changes Hint at a Brave New, Twitter-Like, World | Epicenter from Wired.com
Facebook is developing a serious case of Twitter envy. It’s not hard to see how the popularity of Twitter is influencing Facebook’s attempts to remold itself and adapt to the
popurls® | the genuine aggregator for the latest web buzz
Here's the site that was mentioned in class this afternoon. Popurls.
Mike's talk on search engines: Does instant "getification" come at a cost (to our wayof thinking and learning) ?
bubbl.us - free web application for brainstorming online
Web application for making and sharing mindmaps
Video: RSS in Plain English | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English
Clear explanation of what RSS is & how to set up a reader
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
Beth's blog shows a different example of online innovation - looking at a variety of social media examples in the non profit industry.
Linkbait at any Cost? - CopyWrite
This post won a Moggy award last year - well worth the read.
Skittles.com: Interweb the rainbow. Taste the Rainbow.
This is another example of content innovation online - smart digital marketing to increase the profile and awareness of a product online.
PLoS ONE: Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science
Over the course of 2007 and 2008, we collected nearly 1 billion user interactions recorded by the scholarly web portals of some of the most significant publishers, aggregators and institutional consortia. The resulting reference data set covers a significant part of world-wide use of scholarly web portals in 2006, and provides a balanced coverage of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. A journal clickstream model, i.e. a first-order Markov chain, was extracted from the sequences of user interactions in the logs. The clickstream model was validated by comparing it to the Getty Research Institute's Architecture and Art Thesaurus. The resulting model was visualized as a journal network that outlines the relationships between various scientific domains and clarifies the connection of the social sciences and humanities to the natural sciences.
Looks at the decline of traditional media in Australia.
Tweet. Meet. Give. | Twestival
Twestival was a global event organised on Twitter this year.
Kiwi judge follows Australian Facebook precedent - web - Technology - smh.com.au
BBC NEWS | Technology | Social networks 'are new email'
Status updates on sites such as Facebook are a new form of communication, the South by SouthWest Festival hears.
Journalism evolving, not dying: science author
Newspapers are dying but journalism is evolving, an acclaimed science writer told a gathering of the techno-hip at South By South West Interactive Festival on Friday.Steven Johnson equated newspapers to old growth forests, saying that under the canopy of that aged ecosystem blogging, citizen journalism, Twittering and other Internet-age information sharing is taking root.
Connection more trick than tweet
This is a great article by Annabel Crabb of the SMH on how politicians are using twitter to attract new audiences, gain trust and seem "cool". But, some of them, like Kevin Rudd, still use "old-school methods" - getting their media deparments to update their twitter accounts.
Facebook fun goes mobile - Technology - smh.com.au
Do we really need to be connected 24hrs a day?
Google Reader is your new watercooler
It's a general desription of google reader. I think it's good for new users to get used for it.
Why time is valuable?
Amazon Uses DMCA To Try To Block Other Ebooks From Getting On Your Kindle | Techdirt
Facebook et al risk 'infantilising' the human mind | Media | guardian.co.uk
More on mind-bending ...
And even if the publishing industry isn't devastated when a single bookstore takes over the e-book world, the marketplace for books will be diminished. Amazon stands as proof of how innovative retail practices can transform an industry; over the last decade and a half, the company revolutionized the book market with innovations like customer reviews, collaborative filtering, one-click shopping, and unbeatable customer service. It launched all these services to stay ahead of its rivals. But what will happen when it has no rivals?
a shel of my former self: Comments
Fellow DR&Pers,With week 3's topic in mind ... How's this as a glimpse of a future where search engines are "in the driver's seat" generating responses to questions we haven't even asked yet, and leading us down unchosen paths.I pinched this from a Diigo group run for Masters students by Alex Halavais who wrote Search Engine Society (2008). http://groups.diigo.com/groups/se-society).Halavais' blog at http://alex.halavais.net is chock-full of insightful snippets about digital media and hilarious video clips often featuring technology gone awry.Cheerio,Mike
