Monthly Archives: August 2009

History of the Internet video parade

The fruits of, ahem, quality research time spent on YouTube. From 1981: “Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to read the day’s newspaper. Well, it’s not as far-fetched as it may seem.” “It takes over two hours to receive the entire text of the newspaper over [...]
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Space, junk, and living on the edge

A couple more data visualisations for those who like them. This time from TD Architects. The first documents satellites in space and which countrires own how many, and the amount of space junk we’ve left trailing about out there. The second breaks countries down into physical sizes, then looks at GDP per capita (from CIA [...]
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Martin Belam reviews ‘share this’ experiences

Nice series of posts by Martin Belam looking at what happens to users who click on a ‘share this’ button at the bottom of a news story. When I recently wrote a series of articles on how major publishers are using social media bookmarking tools to drive traffic, I mentioned that ‘share this‘ buttons had [...]
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Journalists ‘should be interviewed once a year’

I like this post by John Longhurst on the Canadian Journalism Project. He says journalists should be interviewed themselves from time to time, so they know what it’s like. And that the interview should be published, so they know what it’s like to have a stranger’s account of themselves on public display. I agree. I’ve [...]
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Your chance to participate in a Twittamentary

This might be interesting. Via RWW’s events guide comes an invitation to participate in a Twittamentary. In this documentary, filmmaker Tan Siok Siok peels away the hype and explores the human dimensions of how lives connect and intersect, and then are affected and changed, as result of encounters on Twitter. Twittamentary is created in the [...]
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