Where the jokes are.
While April fools day is wrapping up here in Australia it is just getting into full swing over in the US. A few people have tried to get the jump by posting their AF jokes early (You know who you…
A guide to constructive commenting
Most of the readers here have been around the Internet and its pre-cursors for a while and are familiar with the groups that almost all commentors fall into. There are loosely 3 groups in increasing order of prevelance: those that…
Bloggers as journalists
I posted a few days ago about old media trying to change to look more like new media, and how this opened a gap for new media to take over the role of true journalism. A post in Gizmodo about…
Windows Live connects to social networks
Microsoft has announced the ability to use your friends and networks in some social networks to invite them to Live, in particular to instant messenger. I like this in theory, but in practice I’m not sure how this helps the…
Journalists morphing into bloggers
An interesting post on Wired about the way journalism is changing in the face of new media. Not that unexpected a perspective from a magazine that has morphed into something more like a blog itself. The gist is essentially that…
And on the subject of cars…
The Telegraph has published the results of its poll on the 100 most beautiful cars of all time. The list is dominated by English and Italian cars, which may partly be due to a natural bias of The Telegraph being…
Online video finding it hard to get advertisers
AP reports about the slow uptake of sponsors to video sharing sites like You-Tube. According to the managers (from the video sharing sites) that are quoted in the article the issue is the comfort level of the marketers. In my…