In a not entirely characteristic move, the Chinese government has backed down over plans to force that nation’s bloggers to identify themselves by their real names. (Incidentally, this was an idea also discussed by Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian during the shortlived “Code of Conduct” farago) The Chinese government’s climbdown is being reported by the [...]
Entries from May 2007
Chinese Democracy?
May 23rd, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 2 Comments
In Blogging · Politics · Social media · Stories
Consequenoogles!
May 23rd, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · No Comments
In Stories
(aka: Googlequences)
Is it just me, or does anyone else suspect that there must be a way of splicing “consequences” with the top 10 lists on Google Trends into a witty parlour game for all your friends and family to resent playing after a dinner party?
“When it changed” - or just an artefact?
May 21st, 2007 by Mat Morrison · 1 Comment
In Stories
See that sudden leap in reach around April 2006. Was that when web 2.0 happened? Or does it reflect a change in Alexa’s processes? I’m not a massive user of Alexa’s stats (for a variety of reasons), so it’s only now that I’ve noticed.
Others beat me to it, asking “Did the world get geekier [...]
“…everything that won’t go away.”
May 21st, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 3 Comments
In Stories
That there is something unique about the disappearance of 4-year-old Madeleine McCann seems obvious. It is not the level of media coverage, which any American will be able to tell you is attendant upon the disappearance of any young (pretty, white) woman. Rather, it is the massive mobilisation of social networking websites in support of [...]
Excellent ad for erm, not advertising, or…
May 17th, 2007 by Mat Morrison · 3 Comments
In Stories
The Break UpUploaded by geertdesager
(via George Nimeh)
Ok. It’s very funny. But let’s analyse it.
The consumer wants the advertiser to listen. She wants a dialogue. She doesn’t want funny.
So - the format is a two-minute funny video.
Now, the guy at Microsoft who commissioned this, Geert Desager says that “the commercial explicitly challenges the advertisers - our [...]