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Cyber culture, social media and Web ?.0 are all themes which describe what this blog is about. On occasion there will be potluck posts… enjoy.

Archive for March, 2007

YouTube Awards… picked up by NY Times

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Fascinating that the NY Times of all publications would file a front page story in its Arts Section about the YouTube Awards. Yes, you know the same Arts spread dedicated to the off and occasionally off-off Broadway play, or that killer dance company full of “gaiety and disturbing mystery.”
Dance Company Covered by the NY Times:

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New media bloggers are out in full force today. The issue? NBC Universal and News Corps’ launch of an online video sharing service. In short, the networks’ competitive response to YouTube.
Sure the announcement is old news. What is new are the partnerships struck with portals like AOL, Yahoo, MSN and MySpace allowing […]

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Interview with Kevin Rose, Digg it?

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

There are one too many puns I can play on the name of Digg. I won’t bother…
While visiting GDC (for the non-gaming crowd that would be “Game Developers’ Conference”) in San Francisco, I managed to stop by Digg offices for a chat with the founder of the company Kevin Rose. We hit on a number […]

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I have never been a fan of Big Brother or any of the me-centered reality shows. But there is something intriguing by the “real life” project the team behind Justin.tv have launched.
A co-worker of mine calls it living art. I call it living… period. Once again, the interactivity is the selling point. You can call […]

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