You may well have seen this already, but there’s a lovely interactive campaign being carried out by Dutch indie band C-Mon & Kypski. (Note: never heard of them; don’t care; bring back The Smiths). The idea is that fans can collaborate with the band in their latest music video. You use your webcam to imitate a [...]
December 22, 2009
In a story from the Onion news network, an archaeologist discovers traces of an ancient network of people known as Friendster. Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins Of ‘Friendster’ Civilization Not so much ‘fake’ news on this occasion. More like news that hasn’t happened yet. I can see this being broadcast 100 years from now.
December 14, 2009
YouTube – The Social Media Guru. Have you even read my online internet blog? It’s mega-awesome.
August 25, 2009
I thought this was gorgeous. Life looks so tidy when we’re speeded up. Small Life in Cologne from Christoph Schaarschmidt on Vimeo.
April 26, 2009
You’ve probably already seen this, even though it was published just a week ago. It’s had nearly two million views in the last week, over 6,000 comments on YouTube itself, and been plugged into 826 blog posts. Among its honours, it’s the #2 – Top Favourited (All Time) – Sport. If it weren’t for Susan Boyle, [...]
December 6, 2008
When you have this sort of team on your side. Only about 20 months late on this. (And yes – I wish I could shut off that frickin’ tweeting from the Cooking Mama post below. I’ll replace the widget with a link v.soon.
June 19, 2008
But sorry it was too good, and at the very least, you must watch to from (thanks, Steve) 3:00′ish. Via Jemima Kiss
March 21, 2008
I was totally taken by surprise by this one. (A little further research has revealed that it was created by WCRS, and that there is some controversy over the originality of the idea. What a shame.)
February 25, 2008
I love the film Kes (1969). It was still modern when I went to secondary school, nearly ten years later – some local authorities were still trying to get it banned when I was teaching in the 90s, and it’s still modern now. This scene, where the poor messenger boy from the second form gets [...]
November 25, 2007
The secret strategies of viral marketers seems to have caused considerable upset among the Techcrunch faithful, registering 444 comments to date. Clearly author Dan Ackerman Greenberg hit something of a nerve with the 2.0 faithful. Many readers, including head honcho Michael Arrington, seem to be very naive about what marketers are going to do with [...]
October 18, 2007
via. Communities Dominate Brands And apparently the most blogged about video on the ‘net at the moment. The URL of the creators, fleetingly referred to towards the end is http://www.mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/ “… the basic idea is to create a 3 minute video highlighting the most important characteristics of students today – how they learn, what they need to [...]
January 15, 2010