Interesting little vignette below featuring Dr. Lisa Dethridge (RMIT lecturer and an ex LAMP participant for an SLCN.tv-like LAMP project called InWorld) with the presenter of ABC’s community focused TV show ‘Can We Help?’. The short video has several clips of ABC Island built by a Gary Hazlitt (whoever he is) and in an earlier [...]

Another report looking at Australian media usage patterns in the wake of broadband has been released. You can download the report here. I caught Julian Thomas, one of the authors of this CCI report on the ABC’s Media Report this week and you can read the transcript here.
One of the most interesting things reported was [...]

Courtesy of Michael Ball:
“Is there a market for feature-length films on the mobile phone?” I asked Tomas Gewecke, new President of Digital Distribution for Warner Bros., at the US Mobile Entertainment Forum Conference MEFCON last week.
You’d think, by the audience reaction, that I just confessed to running over his dog.
Warner cut a deal recently with [...]

Natalie Spence flicked over some Flickr in-the-know this morning. It’s an article from Flickr’s George Oates on their experience building and cultivating their online community. A thread includes  minimising the ‘rules’ and allowing users to tangle, mangle and get creative with the given infrastrucure.
“People don’t like being told what to do. We like to explore, change things around, [...]

  Never shy of blowing their own trumpet, Virgin Media says that within a year its customers will spend more time viewing its video-on-demand service than watching Channel 4.
Customers of the British cable television company use the video-on-demand service 22 times a month on average. “We are at the start of a fundamental shift in [...]

All reports are that the latest online video offering from News Corporation and NBC is exceeding expectations. Although the service is currently only available in the US it’s only a matter of time before it goes global according to CEO Jason Kilar. You can read a report of his comments at MIP here. Also of [...]

Last night on ABC1 Foreign Correspondent’s Stephen McDonell reported on the bloggers of China who are pushing for freer speech in their highly censored country.
There are an estimated 60 million bloggers in China and 230 million Chinese internet users, making it the fastest growing market in the world. Internationally people assume the internet is an open and [...]

An interesting video with the creators of the new pilot web site from Carnegie Mellon University, called Spongecell. Spongecell. brings together the interactivity of social networking to product marketing and promotion campaigns. An interesting example was the Yari Film Group in the USA..
Yari Film Group sees 40% opt-in
“We wanted to promote our movie “Final Season” [...]

An interesting insight into the most popular social networkers.
Went to a MySpace developers pre-launch party last night and had nice chats with the Australia MySpace crew and visiting US developer leads (see previous post) who are here to catalyse some really cool ‘widgets’ and apps for a still pretty dominant global Social Network. One thing [...]

The Newspaper Association of America have released 2007 figures a week ago showing ad revenues fell by 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006. This is the biggest fall since 1950 when they started to track advertising in print. On the plus side for “word smiths” online ad revenue grew 18.8% to $3.2 billion in [...]

Not really cool more enlightening, but Tim Smith a student (ex?) at AFTRS sent me this YouTube link that gets Aussies talking about Australian films and how relevant they are to them. It speaks for itself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiCvLFgsbN8

Online Issues The internet as a creative workspace for artists. Protecting copyright and avoiding liability in respect of user generated content. What are your rights in respect of podcasts, vodcasts and blogs. Legal issues around youtube, myspace, and Facebook. Selling and publishing your work in the online environment – the benefits and pitfalls. Delwyn Everard Arts [...]

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Searches for beauty and body treatments on yellow.com.au have spiked since 2001.
A Yellow directory spokesman says the figures not only reflect the general growth in the use of the internet but provide insights into social trends. “Even the way we exercise has changed,” he says. ”For example, Sydneysiders could have burned fat in 1980 [...]

  
 
YouTube refreshed their leaderboards a few days ago and a strange new video became the Most Viewed Video of All-Time, topping the world-famous Evolution of Dance video. With 89 million views, the new winner is a fan-made music video. Waxy.Org asks if it got there legitimately.

A cross-post from the main LAMP blog cause this is cool…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTv975gPvow

A mini ARG (Alternate Reality Game) with virtual world parallel components as part of the 8th LAMP residential in Marysville, Victoria Australia.
We have been running LAMP residential workshops for nearly 3 years now and on the first day we normally run a team bond/building game. [...]