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9 months ago

"Social Notworking: The practice of spending time unproductively on social-networking websites, especially when one should be working."

Urban Dictionary: Social Notworking

yup

"Say hello to the Fixed Panel, which is a huge vertical banner that “scrolls to the top and bottom of the page as a user scrolls”, the XXL Box, which is pretty much exactly what it says, and the Pushdown, the biggest of the bunch, which rolls down from the top of the page to get right in the user’s face. The trade group behind these new formats says they are “designed to help stimulate a renaissance of creative advertising on the Internet that meets the needs of marketers by better integrating their messages into the fabric of the Web.” That sounds like a lot of buzzwords, but conspicuous by its absence is any mention of the user’s experience of these ads. These ads might grab users’ attention through brute force, but will the experience be a positive one?"

Carlo Longino @ Online Publishers’ Solution To Falling Ad Revenues: Bigger, More Annoying Ads | Techdirt

great. bigger ads.

9 months ago

RiP: A Remix Manifesto

more @ the Workbook Project » TCIBR podcast - RIP: A Remix Manifesto

new doc showing at SXSW about copyright vs. remixes and mashups.

"For years, it has been assumed that home internet usage would cannibalize live television viewing, but there’s something interesting happening between social networking and live television. Could it be that what Pete Blackshaw termed “telecommunities”-people simultaneously watching live television programs and chatting in real time with an online network of like-minded fans—will gain scale and give consumers a reason to stick with live viewing? Let’s look at what happened during the Oscars. … More than 1 in 10 people (11%) watching the Oscars this year did so while logged onto the Internet. … While there was some expected surfing to places like IMDB for more information on movies, the true winner of the night was Facebook. People who used Facebook during the broadcast used it for an average of 76 minutes. … People who used Facebook while watching the Oscars watched about 50% more of the broadcast than the average Oscar viewer."

John Burbank, Nielsen Online @ Could Social Networking Bolster the :30 Spot? | MEDIAWEEK

people are finding their own added value. they want it.

"I have this suspicion that if I just show my work inside the traditional gallery system, I will be safer from litigation. But if I want to reach across the boundaries of the art world and blur the line between mass-media culture and fine art by posting my work on YouTube, I better watch out. It’s almost as if the law is barring me from pursuing hybridity."

Stacia Yeapanis @ Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Locating Fair Use in the Space Between Fandom and the Art World (Part One)

it is. and it’s stupid.

9 months ago

This is Just the Beginning… (via CBS)

more @ Harper’s Globe site

more @ Web series Harper’s Globe will intertwine with CBS’ Island | SCI FI Wire

tie-in web series for “harper’s island” tv show on CBS. web series is described as “social show” sharing characters with the tv show.

9 months ago

"About twenty years ago people noticed computers and TV were on a collision course and started to speculate about what they’d produce when they converged. … It’s clear now that even by using the word “convergence” we were giving TV too much credit. This won’t be convergence so much as replacement. People may still watch things they call “TV shows,” but they’ll watch them mostly on computers. … Shows will change even more. On the Internet there’s no reason to keep their current format, or even the fact that they have a single format. Indeed, the more interesting sort of convergence that’s coming is between shows and games."

Paul Graham @ Why TV Lost

computer + internet (interactivity) kills tv (dumb box). content providers must adjust strategy. content will undoubtedly adjust as well.

9 months ago

Google, Universal Ponder Major Label-Only YouTube Spinoff | Epicenter from Wired.com

it’s all about the advertising: professional content brings in the bucks & doesn’t want to be found sitting next to the ugly user-generated kid.

9 months ago

"Put aside your demographic notions of gender, age and location for a moment. People are more than all that when they are online. They create identities, behavioral patterns and personas based on the community they most frequently use. This constructed online identity is a proxy that can be used to not only engage these users but develop a favorable impression of your brand."

Maki @ DOSHDOSH: Building Complementary Services: A Powerful Long-Term Social Media Marketing Strategy

social networks must be integrated into everything.

ZillionTV: Hollywood and ISPs Unite to Deliver Video over the Net | Epicenter from Wired.com

more @ ZillionTV’s Set-Top Plan: Mix Ads, Paid Content, T-Commerce « NewTeeVee

& straight to your tv. can the internet, content providers, advertisers & audience finally get along? to be continued.

9 months ago

"Loyal fans are the lifeblood of artists and essential to sustaining any creative career. Now, with online tools that enable direct connections, filmmakers can reach out to their fans for support in the early stages of project development. Whether aiding the funding, production or distribution of a film, crowdsourcing is a collaborative way to overcome barriers in the filmmaking process."

Liz Rosenthal @ POWER TO THE PIXEL » Crowdsourcing: Using Audiences to Bankroll Projects

examples of projects with audience fundraising participation & the online tools that facilitated it. nothing close to massive success, but could be a viable option for certain projects.

9 months ago

What Facebook Is For (via somegreybloke)

yup.

9 months ago

"Damage your biggest asset, destroy your product, and complain when others do a better job… In the end, the fact is that newspapers have been providing people with a poor quality product for too long, neglecting their biggest asset (the community) and have been totally unwilling to recognize the onslaught of competition coming from multiple angles. And, to that, their response has been to say that they’ll raise the price on that very “icky” community? And that somehow people will “miss them” when they’re gone? That seems unlikely."

Mike Masnick @ What Dying Business Has Survived By Raising Prices On An Inferior Product? | Techdirt

if you don’t “get it”, you won’t be around much longer to wonder what happened.

9 months ago

Greg Rutter's Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Somethingp

more @ The Internet’s 99 Greatest Hits - TIME

this site’s purpose is confirming that the internet is weird.

9 months ago

"The fact is that the music industry’s revenues have been artificially inflated for decades because of limited consumer options. The last 15 years of innovation have lifted those limitations, effectively leaving the music industry with an obsolete, defective business model of monopolized production technology, forced album bundling, and almost nonexistent competition in the realm of home entertainment. What is happening now - the decline of music profits and the piracy witch hunt by the music industry - is merely the panicked struggle of a dying business model, a complacent industry’s refusal to accept its diminishing role in a digital world. The pirates are not the reason, and the decline is the not the disease. It is the cure."

Jens Roland @ How To Kill The Music Industry | TorrentFreak

the pirates fault? too easy. a symptom of a bigger shift.

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