A hat tip to Dan Taylor over at BBC for pointing out this lovely little viral that allows you the passive, sit-on-the-couch-and-munch-crisps viewer (well fiddle with laptop) to be the star of Spooks. FaceSpook is a personalized video tool where your face is mapped onto a character in an action scene - and all via [...]
A lot of discussion at AFTRS at the moment on differentiating between Games and Social Virtual Worlds and this diagram from Fred Cavazza (site, en Francais) is a clear attempt at highlighting the differences. I like the way Fred (who incidentally has some other great ‘emergent media’ charts here) has used four corners of social, [...]
Gary Hazlitt and Gazlitt (aka as me!) take a ‘break’ in over fifty worlds comprising the current metaverse, here is the holiday video…cross posted from Personalizemedia.
“I am doing curriculum development (and other things) on the evolving range of social virtual worlds and have recently ventured into fifty of them to review and sample the culture, [...]
Over half of all the LAMP projects are in or have been produced to audiences now. üBERgroover.tv was a project that came into our 4th residential on Milson’s Island in 2006 and we have just heard from ex-AFTRS student Tina Lymberis, it’s driving force, of the official launch and plans to take on the world. [...]
The following clip you are about to see has a Ripley’s Believe it or Not feeling to it. Apparently its straight unedited footage taken from the CCTV of Raffles Place Tower building in Singapore.
It was posted on the internet a few weeks ago and like a piece of viral media, has completely overwhelmed the asian [...]
Announced in the last couple of days, is this the start of media based social networks (flickr, youtube, joost, vimeo etc) starting to converge on being able to carry all your media?
…well not quite at the moment as they (flickr with 4 000 000 users) are only allowing 90 second clips to be loaded up [...]
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 [...]
The block is from Advanced TV and seems to be another brick in the wall of proof that the ‘two-way-network’ is now starting to reach an ‘advertising’ contender level of maturity as most folk are spending most of their time on the web. It has synergy with other reports from Pew and Nielsen (which we [...]
Thanks to Annelie Killian for what we have added a new category for ‘cool licks’ - destined to be on a zillion computer screens virally spreading doggy virus’s.
Step 1 - Make your browser full screen
Step 2 - Click HERE
Step 3 - get a proper screen cleaning cloth to remove the saliva
A groundbreaking report came out last week from old stalwarts of statistical ratings reporting Nielsen, who are now starting to accurately measure video usage across the web. It is very US centric but significant in that an ‘old’ media unit has decided to finally take web video seriously, particularly as the findings do show significant [...]
Is a cyber sluth movement erupting? The Sydney Morning Herald has published another lost and found piece, this time about a woman who found a digital camera in Sydney CBD. She’s provided snaps of street signage and kid’s birthday parties for the Herald to publish online in hope the camera finds it’s way back to it’s owners.
A colleague just returned from holidays in Canada and told me the only Australian news he’d seen or heard in the month he was away was party boy Corey Delaney. Interesting how putting out a party invite on MySpace can lead to a viral media spike more significant than major flooding in Queensland, the announcements [...]
