Monthly Archives: February 2008
Explain Twitter without using a computer
Try this as an exercise: Explain Twitter to someone who’s never seen it. You’ve got 10 seconds to think about it. Oh, and you can't use a computer. Ready? No? Too bad, away you go.
The great disconnect
The trouble with this highly connected high-speed wired world we live in, is that it isn't. It's hard work staying connected on the road. I have two wi-fi enabled devices - a little lightweight laptop and a hunking great HTC Tytn pda. Which is all well and good but for the utter paucity of wifi in New Zealand and the nonsense of having to pay for it when you find it.
You heard it here last
I'm not proud, but it's been taking me an awfully long time to get through my emails and feed aggregator lately so these tidbits have been kicking around a week or so. 1. Four US newspaper chains join forces to create combined ad group selling spots across all the companies' websites. The four, Hearst, NY Times, Tribune and Gannett, said it was the best way for them to compete against Google, AOL and others.
What’s to blame: journalism or technology?
There's a nice bit of debate on the boil about whether journalism itself is to blame for the decline in newspaper sales. It seems to have come down to whether you think people don't buy papers anymore because of lifestyle changes - it's easier to read stories online, say, or catch radio bulletins on the run - or because journalism quality has slipped and people are fed up.
Bebo still rules the roost in NZ