Your daily Tube on active engagement in a digital world
Lets see how this will work out this coming Saturday.
On March 28 you can VOTE EARTH by switching off your lights for one hour.
Or you can vote global warming by leaving your lights on.
The results of the election are being presented at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. We want one billion votes for Earth, to tell world leaders that we have to take action against global warming.
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Again it happened this week during a nasty aircraft crash in Amsterdam…who was the first to let the world know about the crash? Was it a local radio station, was it @nip, an (not anymore) unknown twiterazi working near Schiphol with outlooks on the crashed aircraft.
A couple of years ago it was Dan Gilmor who published his book we the media on grassroot journalism dismantling the monopoly of big media’s news. Let’s face it, it’s happening, whether we like it or not! Communication is created by conversations, and conversations are build up as fast as lighting on the digital highway.
It’s there, it’s not going away and professional mediacorporations have to embrace it instead of moaning about it.
A similar case happened years ago with photo journalism; with the upcoming market of Flickr, Picassa, Facebook photo and many more, there was little room for so-called professional stock agencies demanding too much money for stock photograpghy.
Yes; life has changed and is changing in a more rapid way than we all can imagine.
TIME magazine makes its second annual list of the best blogs in the world, spanning politics, housekeeping, astronomy and everything in between.
Read more at the TIME website
YouTube has updated its Annotations feature so you can now invite your friends to scrawl nonsense on your uploaded videos.
The feature was first introduced last June, and is proving very popular with self-promoters and the like, as it allows you to add speech bubbles, notes, and highlight boxes to your own videos. Read more here
If Facebook has one standout application it has to be Photos. Measured on its own, it is the largest photo site on the Web. A full 69 percent of Facebook’s monthly visitors worldwide either look at or upload photos, based on comScore data. And more than 10 billion photos
have been uploaded to the site. » Continue Reading…
BBDO Mexico made this ‘ beautifully’ created TVC, nevertheless it looks familiar or not?? » Continue Reading…
An interesting development happened this week: Hulu pulled access from the Boxee platform. Boxee is a software package that offers IPTV to various set-top box devices. For Hulu, Boxee was providing over 100,000 streams the week before it was pulled. It wasn’t Hulu’s choice, but was pressure from the content providers. Which leads me to the major point of this post: mainstream content owners don’t get it. » Continue Reading…
Twitter upgrade! Soon available for all Twitterazi. » Continue Reading…
“Over the past few days, we have received a lot of feedback about the new terms we posted two weeks ago. Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues that people have raised. For more information, visit the Facebook Blog.
If you want to share your thoughts on what should be in the new terms, check out our group Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.”
Agencyspied interviewed Sir Martin Sorrell; you can find the excerpt here.
