Post-university life – Page 4

Why I went to Paris

Oct 25, 2007

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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe digital era of communcation is a great one because research for video material is no longer restricted the archives of the INA, France television, BBC, TSR and other archives to find footage you’re looking for. A producer from steamboat films was working on a documentary about the walkman and found a…

Jamaican Gang Culture And South African Drug Culture – Unreported World

Oct 17, 2007

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richard

in observation, Post-university life, reviews

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs I write this I am happy that I have been to watch quite a few interesting documentaries at the Frontline Club. The two most recent were made for Channel 4’s Unreported World. This is channel four’s “acclaimed foreign affairs series” and covers a number of topics. The two documentaries I watched…

Bill Palmer of Iprong 3c, twittermail3k twittter 3k+

Oct 15, 2007

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richard

in facebook, Post-university life, social networking, tech related, twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday’s news is as follows. Having seen that Bill Palmer of the Iprong podcast and website would add the 300th friend on Facebook I decided I would take this opportunity to add him. His podcast is “for the ipod generation so take the time to listen to it. It’s mainly about…

Why Audiovisual Content That’s Not On-Demand is Dead to Me

Oct 14, 2007

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richard

in observation, Post-university life, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m online from 10-15hrs a day on average and as a result I’m used to having everything available within a short amount of time. I also had access to a PVR with a hard disk upgrade for quite a long time. As a result of both these developments anything that is not…

Invisible without a website

Oct 8, 2007

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richard

in facebook, Post-university life, social networking, tech related, work

Reading Time: 3 minutesHaving a website is essential in today’s media landscape for one simple reason. You don’t exist until I can hyperlink to a website containing examples of your work and describing what you do. This is particularly true in today’s new media landscape. For the minimalist among you a facebook or myspace page…

Twittervox, flatlisters and a possible trip to Paris

Oct 3, 2007

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richard

in PodcampUK, Post-university life, social networking, tech related, travel, twitter, work

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn today’s Twittervox episode we had Nik Butler talking about his idea of the flatlister. The concept is based around the idea that when someone is promoting themselves and building their own persona they are a flat lister. In other words they are in charge of their own persona and their own…

Dependability

Oct 2, 2007

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richard

in Post-university life, work

Reading Time: < 1 minute” Hey, your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.” (Facebook as of this morning) Reliability is the single most important thing for a website. If, as they suggest, facebook is down for a few hours…

On television accuracy within this “New Media” landscape

Sep 26, 2007

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richard

in observation, Post-university life, tech related

Reading Time: 4 minutesSince I had some free time I went over to the Old Theatre of the London school of economics and what we found out from that conversation is that people don’t trust television. According to one of the chairs this was at a ratio of 4:3. This is an interesting situation since…

17 After the Event- Carrying the Conversation Forward

Sep 22, 2007

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richard

in Brogan 100, PodcampUK, Post-university life, social networking, tech related, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are two key events I have been to since the beginning of summer. These are PodcampUK and the Twitter Meetup. Both of these events have been followed up by a continuing collaboration between participants. The first event was the London twitter meetup. I went there knowing just two participants, Sizemore and…

Why a 20% drop is not necessarily a bad thing for myspace

Sep 12, 2007

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richard

in observation, Post-university life, tech related

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to recent articles myspace is losing user share in relation Facebook but this is not necessarily a bad thing. When you think of facebook you know that it’s a glorified phonebook therefore everyone “needs” to use it to remain in the loop. In contrast Myspace is a specialised music sharing…

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