Month: March 2012
The Power of Youth: How Invisible Children Orchestrated Kony 2012
The Power of Youth: How Invisible Children Orchestrated Kony 2012
#UgandaSpeaks – Al-Jazeera English
#UgandaSpeaks – Al-Jazeera English AJE is pretty awesome in a lot of its social media efforts – especially ‘The Stream’, which is a show that entirely follows news trends and […]
Virality uber Alles: what the fetishisation of social media is costing us all
Virality uber Alles: what the fetishisation of social media is costing us all “Going viral has gone viral. Social media have become the obsession of the media. It’s all about […]
Videoblogger and radio host Jay Smooth, who took that panel photo (and who, full disclosure, was on the panel I organized), points out that even such proactive systems can only […]
Welcome to the Era of Relationship TV
Welcome to the Era of Relationship TV TIME is talking social TV as part of their SXSW coverage: “From DVR to Netflix streaming, technology has the changed the business of […]
Trendrr Feb. 2012 Whitepaper
Trendrr Feb. 2012 Whitepaper I almost typed ‘whitepapr’. Ha!
Twitter Engineer Builds Tool for Event Backchannels
Twitter Engineer Builds Tool for Event Backchannels perkolating: via Mashable.
How Al Jazeera is Forging the Future of Social TV
How Al Jazeera is Forging the Future of Social TV Love The Stream! perkolating: via John Paul Titlow and Read Write Web Do you know about “The Stream”? “Essentially, The […]
Kony 2012: Inaccuracies aside, this is how to spread a message
Kony 2012: Inaccuracies aside, this is how to spread a message “But none of the articles Joel or I or a hundred other journalists who have covered Uganda over 25 […]
How tumblr Made Grant Oyston an ‘Africa Expert’
How does a Canadian photographer and second-year university student become an expert on Uganda? A little bit of Googling and a tumblr post. Yesterday, about as quickly as the #Kony2012 […]