Here are the web links I’ve found for 15 May 2008, posted automatically.
Experimental: I’ve finally started exploring the social bookmarking service del.icio.us. Each day, the websites I’ve tagged for future reference are listed here.
Stilgherrian’s links for 10 May 2008 through 12 May 2008, generated almost-automatically:
Here are the web links I’ve found for 07 May 2008, posted automatically.
Here are the web links I’ve found for 06 May 2008, posted automatically.
My links for 02 May 2008 through 03 May 2008: one funny, one serious, and one combining both moods.
Here are the web links I’ve found over the last few days, posted a bit later than I’d intended. Cope.
My interwebby links for 27 April 2008 through 28 April 2008, according to UTC time, apparently:
I’ve decided to have another go at publishing the links I find online. So, thanks to del.icio.us and some mild semi-automation, here’s today’s batch.
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An article claiming that the US radio industry has “maybe five or six years” before local advertisers, which make up 70% to 80% of their advertising revenue, move online.
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Time magazine’s article from 15 April 1966 on “the Swinging Sixties” in London.
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School holiday date for all of Australia, handy to know when planning ones own holidays.
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LOLcats meet Christianity. The collision is… humorous.
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First in a series of posts about taking your blog to “the next level”.(tags: socialmedia blogging)
I’m starting to think that my “here’s what I’ve found” items should move from Twitter to Del.icio.us or maybe even Tumblr [no account there yet, will explore soon] and just be summarised here daily. Then Twitter can be just the day-to-day status stuff — which needn’t be archived here at all, but maybe elsewhere.
Are you OK with that one, Mat F?
There seems to be a surge in “RSS aggregator” products like FriendFeed to create a unified “life stream”. But the more I think about it, the more I think “one stream that contains everything” is wrong. It might be fine for archiving — for your needs. But what about those following you? Dumping everything into a single sewer of undifferentiated crap seems to throw the burden of understanding you onto you audience. And all successful media creation is about what the audience wants — no matter what the scale.
It’s better, I think, to separate out the threads into different streams. People can subscribe to the combination they want. And they can choose to view them in the aggregator of their choice.
Business contacts get your business posts. Family and friends get the status reports about your lunch. A select few choose to view the reports of your illicit camel sex. where they want them, when they want them.
Well, that’s what I think today, anyway. What do you think?
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Nice analysis of Twitter compared with Facebook.
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Lovely photo essay by Bill Cunningham of street fashion in Paris during Fashion week. Narrated by the photographer.
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This guy asked why his 122 Twitter followers followed him, and there’s some interesting answers.(tags: twitter)
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The history of TV advertising in the context of Australia’s SBS. A good essay by by Darce Cassidy. He was the state manager of ABC Radio in South Australia when I worked there.
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Current traffic stats for leading social media websites.
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A gallery of Sydney wall art (graffiti, stencils etc) assembled by a cab driver as he cruises the city.
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Recent cases of USB devices infecting computers include Apple iPods, digital picture frames sold by Target and Best Buy stores and TomTom navigation gear.
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Zern Liew of Eicolab and I have been discussing why some businesses always seem to be in crisis mode.
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A blog about legal and policy issies facing the media and the internet from an Australian perspective. One of my must-reads.
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One of Japan’s finest artworks (or so they tell me), online thanks to the Brooklyn Museum.
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The motherlode of demotivational posters. Every cublicle-droid workplace should be equipped with at least three.
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Amy Walker tours 21 accents in 2.5 minutes, a tour de force performance IMHO. One take! (Links to YouTube.)
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Brad Kellett is someone I started following on Twitter because he’s connected to various people I know.
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I love the way this voice-over artist describes himself as having “a unique sound” when it’s the standard deep male commercial radio voice that we always hear.
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Slow TV is a free internet TV channel delivering interviews, debates, conversations and public lectures about Australia’s key political, social and cultural issues. With contributors to the book Dear Mr Rudd , edited by Robert Manne and published by Black
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The 1992 Telecom Australia concept video, Broadband, envisions the futuristic world of 1996.


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