Jan 29, 2012 0
remember when the yellow pages …
Remember when the yellow pages used to be big and floppy and there were two of them? A-Z now in one 1616 page volume.
Jan 24, 2012 0
Google Santorum
Search for “Santorum” and the top result will land you on this page. I was just alerted to this long running campaign via a friend’s Facebook post. The details of it are documented on Wikipedia. Its part political activism against the US senator’s anti gay remarks, part organic google bomb. Organic in the sense that organic search terms are ones that rise to the top of search engine results pages without manipulation. The wikipedia entry of the campaign to create this neologism (a new word definition) included this account of the request to Google to address the matter.
Dec 28, 2011 1
Does your company have rights to your Twitter account and do they have a Twitter policy?
Who owns the Twitter followers of an account when they were amassed during an employee’s tenure at a company? A case popped up in the news today on SMH (originally published in the New York Times).
Twitter user sued by ex-employer for his followers (SMH).
The details are fairly clear cut:
- Employee tweets under Twitter handle that bears both his and the company’s name
- Employee amasses 17,000 followers in 4 years
- Employee leaves company and reaches agreement with employer to keep his account as long as he posts occasionally on their behalf
- Employee changes his Twitter account name to his own name and (not sure how) keeps his followers under his new handle
- Former employer then sues (8 months have passed at this time) claiming Twitter list as customer list. They claim that they have invested significant resources to grow the list and consider it their property.
Dec 8, 2011 7
Digital Citizens – Social media and the music industry who are mildly embracing it
The panel at Digital Citizens: Ben Shepherd – Sound Alliance; Sam Buckingham – singer / songwriter; Gareth Stuckey – Director, Gigpiglet; Dan Rosen – ARIA Chief Executive Officer; Neil Ackland – Sound Alliance; moderated by@acatinatree. The event was held at FBI Social.
So the topic of the evening was meant to be Social media and the music industry but that’s not quite what we got.
Everyone talked about the revenue/rights quandary but there was no real talk of how they were strategising for the digital age. Except for Sam Buckingham, a singer songwriter who has leveraged social media to connect to her fan base, build a loyal following and even crowd sourced $11,000 via the Pozible platform to fund her first album.
Nov 27, 2011 1
Post secret on paper, via app, not so much
In 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (New Riders Voices That Matter 2011) Susan Weinschenk, PH.D. quotes an interesting study that investigated if honesty varied according to the communication medium.
Charles Naquin (2010) from DePaul University … conducted research on honesty in people when using email versus pen and paper.
In one study, forty-eight graduate business students were each given $89 (imaginary money) to divide with their partner; they had to decide whether to tell their partner how much money was in the kitty, as well as how much of the money to share with their partner. One group communicated by email and the other group by a handwritten note. The group that wrote emails lied about the amount of money (92%) more than the group that was writing by hand (63%). The e-mail group was also less fair about sharing the money, and felt justified in not being honest or fair.
Sep 9, 2011 0
Twitter hash tag spam
Watching a gripping game of Rugby League between West Tigers and St George I curiously grabbed my phone to check the Twitter stream. Looking for a shortcut to league tweets I checked trending topics—no league unfortunately but there was “tonga” trending because of the first game of the Rugby Union.
So I checked it out. Now I have seen spam twitter profiles, been @spammed and have heard of direct mail spam. But had not seen such blatant pr0n spamming of a hashtag. Note #tonga…
it went on…
and on…
and on…
and on! With Miley and Obama?!
Aug 21, 2011 1
Telegraming peace and protest
1980 telegram from activist group "Anti war citizens"
Social media and mobile phones are the communication and organising tool of this moment. As you well know these tools have been important factors in recent events like the Arab Spring and the London Riots. So I thought it an apt time to reflect on old school comms. I found this telegram from 1980 on a cleaning bee at my parent’s house.
My parent’s took me to huge peace rallies in the 1980s. We marched under the banner of a Greek community club called the Atlas League. Now I can see how this group coordinated their efforts with other peace lobbyists. No group SMS, no twitter broadcasts, no Facebook events, but a telegram, phone calls and word of mouth that mobilised thousands to march in Sydney streets.
Jul 3, 2011 6
Digital Citizens – The Age of Intellectual Property
The panel: Mark Pesce, Keir Winesmith, Matt Moore and Julian Peterson
It was a quality panel at the 10th Digital Citizens event moderated by the talented James Fridley @fridley:
- Mark Pesce (@mpesce) inventor, writer, entrepreneur, educator and broadcaster
- Keir Winesmith (@drkeir) Development manager and technical lead for SBS
- Matt Moore (@engin_eer) intellectual capital consultant to corporates, government and NGOs
- Julian Peterson (@JulianFPeterson) former TimeOut marketing boss
There’s a quandary right now which we are all well aware of. Everyone loves content—film, music, books, software but people are becoming less prepared to pay for it. Content may be king but businesses have to not only contend with people wanting it for free but other businesses pilfering and benefitting from it with no permission.
“It’s not piracy, it’s audience driven distribution” – @mpesce
Tshirt: "Copyright infringement is your best entertainment"
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