Robert Denton - Media and Design Consultant, Web Designer

http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2007/10/01/tech_monday_which_social_network_fits_your_marketing_strategy.html

KickApps – Social Media Applications On Demand

I know it’s tough to admit you were wrong but I am very glad as are many others around the web, the NYTimes has chosen to open it’s archives.

I will in fact say I told you so, in fact I talked about it twice already here:
Farewell Friedman, Later Dowd, See ya Kristoff, Wouldn’t Want to [...]

Paper: A Second Life for Your Museum: 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments and Museums

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‘NYT’ Opening TimesSelect to Students and Teachers for Free

NEW YORK The New York Times is opening up access permanently to TimesSelect to all students and faculty who have .edu e-mail addresses beginning on March 13.

In 2005 I mentioned the forthcoming wall between some of the most excellent columnists as a loss. I still feel this [...]

TalkShoe – Talkcasts

We started, sputtered along for a few months actually, an edu-gaming blog for our thoughts and efforts at Bowdoin. For some reason it did not take off. I’ll simply post here in my own blog items of interest to me in gaming.

n m c : projects : Horizon Project
The Horizon Project has several references and [...]

Tom Waits clips at NeedCoffee.com
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About Blingo

A chance to win prizes via your search activity… helps if you have a group of people. Social software written into a marketing scheme… interesting.
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I’m sold! Woodflame bbq looks like a great alternative to the big, ugly, old gas grill soiling our patio or clogging our tiny garage. Uses hardwood [...]

HOTSOUP.com

I am less impressed with this top-down approach to creating citizen opinion than I am with Campaigns Wikia:

http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Campaigns_Wikia

...which is from the founder of WikiPedia. Besides, HotSoup gave me an .asp error on their little “tell us your opinion” widget. Bad mojo if you can’t handle setting up a simple web form. I tried [...]

Campaigns Wikia – Central Campaign Wikia

What Wikipedia is to encylopedic information, Campaign Wikia hopes to be for elections and politics in the US

Big Ten

Who owns the media in America? Not many companies control the information you see/hear/read. Look and learn. This is why “net neutrality” and citizen media are the most important areas of action.

The headline screams—Another movie studio offers movie downloads! What it whispers is “another movie studio offers movie downloads you can purchase and view if you have the right operating system version and are using the right web browser.

Effectively rendering the service useless.

Warner Bros. sells films via Guba.com – Yahoo! News

LOS ANGELES – Warner Bros. [...]

The New Media Consortium (NMC) posts a video about their 2nd life “campus” during the 2006 conference:

>The 2006 NMC Summer Conference was held June 7-10, 2006, in Cleveland, Ohio. Hosts were Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

http://www.nmc.org/sl/2006/06/12/second-life-movie/

I’ve thought this [...]

Why Email is Broken

What I mean by silo’ed is that email traps information into personalized, unsharable, unsearchable vacuums where no one else can access it – the Email Inbox. Think of your Email Inbox as a heavily fortified walled garden. Not mentioning the difficulties many have accessing their Email Inbox outside the corporate [...]