I have developed a draft matrix for identifying the various classes of the socially ostracized and I am interested to get some feedback. I have undertaken this task as I have found the terms frequently misused which dilutes their meaning. This is based solely upon my own experience and gut, no reliable psychological sources have [...]
Interesting article How Madison Avenue is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life in Wired challenging the money spent in Second Life on white elephants that few people ever visit. I must admit I have never really been a big Second Life fan from either a personal or a marketing standpoint. I make this admission [...]
Using flickr as a platform to protest flickr’s censorship is a real mindbender and appears to be paradoxical on some levels. Since an organization into censoring would likely want to censor dissenting opinion about their censorship policies. What it really shows is the perceived ownership that people have over their shared spaces. This is nothing [...]
Cool little prognostication video about the future of media making the rounds today. (thanks to Klint from work pointing this one out). Pete Gardiner, our CD here at Venture Communications has dubbed this kind of thing as the “Video Essay”, which is a term I really like and have seen dozens now ranging from the [...]
Lifehacker and Gizmodo have each published a series of informal policies (Gizmodo’s here) regarding the popular social news site digg. The policies basically dictate how they approach “digging their own stories” and differentiating between how they use digg badges on original versus content they just point to. It is all extremely sensible and above board, [...]