Entries from December 2008

Merry Christmas from Ryan*MacMillan

December 24th, 2008 by Matt Rebeiro · No Comments
In Stories

A quick note from all at Ryan*MacMillan wishing you, the assembled internetz, blogosphere and digerati, a Merry Christmas!

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Online Gaming: Would you ever receive an ASBO for gaming?

December 23rd, 2008 by Adam · 1 Comment
In Gaming · Social media · Stories

This is my third and final post on the growing phenomenon of online gaming, and whether it should be considered a form of social media. My first post began by exploring why playing games online is a debatable social medium, whilst my second post questioned whether it should be considered a form of media in [...]

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Google tells me R*M are experts on Obama - well, it must be true!

December 22nd, 2008 by Matt Rebeiro · 2 Comments
In Blogging · Politics · Press coverage

This morning I’ve been doing some research in to Barack Obama’s use of social media both in the primaries and the election-proper and was about to Twitter my iritation that every single blogger ever (and this is in no way an exaggeration) has blogged on Obama’s use of social media. I decided not to rant [...]

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Is Social Media Postmodern?

December 18th, 2008 by Dan O'Connor · 5 Comments
In Stories

Leo and I were talking about large-scale ways of thinking about what we do. “Social media,” quoth he, “is the modernism of media.”
“But surely,” said I (for it was me), “social media is postmodern?”
“No,” said Leo, “Social media is a form of modernism. I’m talking as an architect here. By modernism I mean the democratisation, [...]

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Everything old is new again: Yuletide Easter Eggs & a Jacobite MMPOG

December 18th, 2008 by Leo Ryan · 1 Comment
In Gaming · New technologies · Word-of-mouth marketing

 
Another post in an ongoing if somewhat casual campaign to demonstrate that there’s nothing new in the world - its all just a bit lot faster and now has acronyms. This post is prompted by news on the radio this morning that the Christmas classic ‘Oh Come All Ye Faithful’ is in fact not a call [...]

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