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New Study: Social Networks Around The World - How is Web 2.0 changing your daily life?
An De Jonghe of Belgium-based Ulysses Consulting has conducted a neat little study of the international social networking sphere in which I gladly participated.
The study doesn’t claim to be scientific, and it has a clear bias towards Belgium (nearly a third of the participants were Belgians), but there’s some pretty interesting stuff:
a whopping 89% put […]
Great guide by J-Lab: Journalism 2.0 - How to Survive and Thrive
University of Maryland’s J-Lab and the Knight Citizen News Network, who both focus on interactive journalism, have released a great hands-on guide: Journalism 2.0 - How to Survive and Thrive (Full PDF version here, print version available here).
There’s quite a bit material on this topic out there already, of course, but this report is really […]
Our Second Life book going into print soon
Together with Thomas Praus (aka DJ Stylewalker) and Max Senges I’ve recently got the chance to write a summer university school for Barcelona-based university UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), as well as a book to go with it. Both the course and the book are all about virtual worlds, particularly Second Life.
I’ve always had […]
Social Networking in plain English (and plain German)
(with German subtitles)
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(undubbed English version)
This awesome brief video by the CommonCraft Show has been floating around the web for a little while now: Social Networking in Plain English explains, well, social networking. Quick and easy, in under 2 minutes. This is great stuff, really!
Thanks to Lee LeFever for releasing the video under […]
Web Strategy Show: Increase the mileage of your full-service Web Agency
The latest installment of Jeremiah’s Web Strategy Show (”white paper video”) features Rene and Aurelie of OX2 who discuss “what to look for in a full-service agency and how to maximize their value”. I really like the format of Jeremiah’s show: It’s brief, it’s dense, and you just feel like you’ve really learned something when […]
New German lawblog: kriegs-recht.de
Don’t be irritated by the website’s name (”Kriegsrecht” is German for martial law): Henning Krieg just started a new law blog. From his first post and the reputation he’s gathered in the barcamp scene with his sessions on blogging and law, his area of interest is clear: He’s going to blog about online law.
Should be […]
Free Culture Movement Timeline - on a chalkboard
At MIT’s Beyond Broadcast 2007, the working group “Free Culture Activism and the Mass Media Conversation” made this great timeline of the free culture movement on a chalk board.
Link to photo on flickr, link to full size (BIG!) (via)
Metaweb’s freebase combines Wikipedia-style encyclopedia and meta data. Rocks.
While freebase is still VERY alpha, with much of the basic functionality barely working, the idea is HUGE. In many ways, freebase is the bridge between the bottom up vision of Web 2.0 collective intelligence and the more structured world of the semantic web.
Strong words, when coming from Tim O’Reilly.
Freebase is metaweb’s first project. While […]
State of the News Media 2007 study is out
The Project for Excellence in Journalism’s (PEJ) annual study State of the News Media is out - in its 4th incarnation. It’s one of the most (probably the most) comprehensive study about U.S. news and journalism. It features an nearly excessive amount of data and info to really indulge in, and also includes a very, […]
SXSW podcasts are online
The podcasts of some of the SXSW panels are online now. I haven’t had the time to really follow up on the coverage on the conference over the last couple of days, so I’m looking forward to listening to some of the panels tomorrow (Link)
Oh, and Twitter won the SXSW Web Award in the “Blog” […]