Links for August 10th 2008
Interesting links for August 9th 2008 through August 10th 2008: Barack Roll [YouTube] – Barack Obama gets … or possibly embodies being … rickrolled. Tape Delay by NBC Faces End Run by Online Fans...
View ArticleLinks for August 11th 2008
Interesting links for August 10th 2008 through August 11th 2008: having “exclusive rights” in a region is a remnant of the twentieth century’s mass media [jill/txt] – “The tyranny of digital distance...
View ArticleLOL George Bush
The Guardian have a great set of recent George Bush images after the LOLcats treatment…
View ArticleWorld of Workcraft
What if World of Warcraft was real? What would people play to relax and escape? World of Workcraft is the answer … Watch more WoW Videos
View ArticleDeath Star Over San Francisco!
For those who prefer to remember the old real Star Wars films, you might just enjoy seeing the Death Star Over San Francisco which features some fairly nifty compositing, in the style (if not tone) of...
View ArticleLinks for August 20th 2008
Interesting links for August 19th 2008 through August 20th 2008: Facebook, MySpace users warned of cyber crime risk [ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)] – “The Victorian Government has...
View ArticleAnnotated Links of Interest: September 11th 2008
Links of interest for September 11th 2008: Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk’s “Feed the Animals” [Waxy.org] – Andy Baio’s extremely deep analysis of the use of samples in the latest Girl Talk...
View ArticleAnnotated Links of Interest: October 24th 2008
Links of interest for October 23rd 2008 through October 24th 2008: Musician defends Sony game song [BBC NEWS | World | Africa] – “The Malian musician whose song is being removed from a Sony video game...
View ArticleAnnotated Links of Interest: October 31st 2008
Links of interest for October 31st 2008: War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie Movie Production [io9 – Chart Porn] – “There’s been a huge spike in the production of zombie movies lately, and...
View ArticleQueen Rania of Jordan … and YouTube
I must confess my knowledge of Jordan is pretty limited and, to my shame, the only time I’ve ever heard of Queen Rania was in a list of powerful women I read in a magazine (while waiting to get a...
View ArticleOde to Cloned Muppet Joy
Perhaps you had to grow up with the Muppets, but this video of Ode to Joy performed by many a Beeker is one of coolest things I’ve seen in a long while: Also, check out Gonzo’s chicken-driven take on...
View ArticleAnnotated Digital Culture Links: January 15th 2009
Links for January 14th 2009 through January 15th 2009: Gurunomics – Crowdsourcing the “Social Media Revolution” Revolution – Gurunomics – the social media revolution (satire) you had to have. I think....
View ArticleAnnotated Digital Culture Links: March 18th 2009
Links for March 13th 2009 through March 18th 2009: Fake Stephen Conroy lashes out at Telstra [SMH] – “Telstra’s attempts to cover up the fact that it tried to silence Fake Stephen Conroy have backfired...
View ArticleAnnotated Digital Culture Links: March 30th 2009
Links for March 25th 2009 through March 30th 2009: Vintage DHARMA ads.[Flickr] – An outstanding set of fan-made ads for the more banal side of Lost‘s Dharma Initiative! By Adam Campbell [Via io9]...
View ArticleAnnotated Digital Culture Links: April 3rd 2009
Links for March 31st 2009 through April 3rd 2009: Internet traffic in Sweden plummets on first day of law banning web piracy [Guardian] – Internet traffic in Sweden – previously a hotbed of illicit...
View ArticleGoogle Opt Out Feature!
Speaking of privacy issues, The Onion has once again hit the nail on the head with their “Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village” video: Google Opt Out Feature...
View ArticleOn the Importance of Dating Felicia Day’s Avatar in Australia!
If you’ve glanced at YouTube, or your iTunes store, or Twitter, or even Facebook in the last few days you may very well have noticed people talking about and linking to this video: What you might not...
View ArticleThere’s an app for that, too.
Sometimes the simplest parodies are the most effective. Case in point: Adam Sacks’ brilliant, satirical take on the power of a range of Apple iPhone applications. Topical, isn’t it?
View ArticleHow to Stalk Your Kids on Facebook!
Once again, those satirists at the Onion have shed a little light on the privacy issues surrounding Facebook with this little video: Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their...
View ArticleVegeSmite? Some quick thoughts on #vegefail & #nestlefamily
Twitter hastags are quickly becoming the popular shorthand to express corporate disasters with social media. Two cases in point recently: #vegefail, the dramatic, vitriolic and 100% negative response...
View ArticleDigital Culture Links: October 4th 2009
Links for October 1st 2009 through October 4th 2009: Margaret Pomeranz on R18+ [Byteside] – Film critic and arts commentator Margaret Pomeranz discussed why an R18+ rating for video games is all too...
View ArticleDigital Culture Links: January 7th 2010
Links for January 6th 2010 through January 7th 2010: New Video: Protecting Reputations Online in Plain English [Common Craft] – Great new Common Craft video looking at reputation management, especially...
View ArticleDigital Culture Links: January 19th 2010
Links for January 18th 2010 through January 19th 2010: Android Karenina [Quirk] – What a great idea of a mashup novel! "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back with an...
View ArticleDigital Culture Links: January 29th 2010
Links for January 29th 2010: [Source] iPad DRM endangers our rights [DefectiveByDesign.org] – The petition against Apple’s iPad (and other) DRM: "DRM will give Apple and their corporate partners the...
View ArticleDigital Culture Links: February 3rd 2010
Links for February 2nd 2010 through February 3rd 2010: Technology Blamed For Bad Grammar Despite Total Lack Of Causal Evidence [Techdirt] – Sometimes, you just have to blame the journalism: "We were...
View ArticleDigital Culture Links: February 7th 2010
Links for February 3rd 2010 through February 7th 2010: Blogging: a great pastime for the elderly [Rough Type – Nicholas Carr’s Blog] – LOL: “I remember when it was kind of cool to be a blogger. You’d...
View ArticleDigital Culture Links: February 11th 2010
Links for February 11th 2010: Warner Music Shoots Self In Head; Says No More Free Streaming [Techdirt] – How to encourage music piracy 101: “A few years back, it seemed like Warner Music actually had a...
View ArticleDigital Culture Links: March 4th 2010
Links for March 1st 2010 through March 4th 2010: Tangerinegate… by Robert Popper [BBC Comedy Blog] – What happens when a prank call alleging the British PM’s temper got the best of him is aired live?...
View ArticleHow Chatroulette Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About the Internet
Here’s the first paragraph of my new column ‘How Chatroulette Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About the Internet’ for Flow TV: Genetic scientists love the humble Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster)...
View ArticleGaga Vs Sesame Street
I fear I might be showing my age given I like this mashup of Lady Gaga Vs Sesame Street far more than the uber-expensive clip it’s parodying:
View ArticleDigital Culture Links: July 2nd 2010
Links for July 2nd 2010: Google to Add Pay to Cover a Tax for Same-Sex Benefits [NYTimes.com] – On this front, at least, Google have got their ‘Don’t be Evil’ stance right: “On Thursday, Google is...
View ArticleOld Spice 2.0!
When Old Spice is mentioned, if anything comes to mind at all, it’s … old. And not old in a dignified or wise way. That’s all changed for me today, as I’ve just seen evidence that their current...
View ArticleOld Spice 2.0 – Day 2
Continuing from yesterday’s post about the impressive Old Spice replies social media campaign, I just wanted to highlight two more examples since they replies have continued into day two of the...
View ArticleDigital Culture Links: July 18th 2010
Links for July 15th 2010 through July 18th 2010: As Older Users Join Facebook, Network Grapples With Death [NYTimes.com] – How Facebook does (and doesn’t) deal with death: “For a site the size of...
View ArticleDigital Culture Links: August 4th 2010
Links for August 4th 2010 (definitely not endorsed by any version of Andrew Bolt): Andrew Bolt discovers Twitter fake. Is cross. [mUmBRELLA] – News Ltd columnist Andrew Bolt has, it would appear, had...
View Article2010 Social Networking Map
A great 2010 update from Flowtown’s Ethan Bloch of the (in)famous XKCD Map of Online Communities. Update: Or you might prefer your map horizontally …
View ArticleDigital Culture Links: August 10th 2010
Links for August 4th 2010 through August 10th 2010: Women Set the Pace as Online Gamers [NYTimes.com] – “Although women are still slightly in the minority among global Web users, they are closing...
View ArticleAustralia’s Political Downfall
So, Australia woke up confused and unhappy this morning, after a soul-destroying election resulting in no clear leadership, no future Prime Minister and the largest number of informal votes ever. Even...
View Article“I’m on a horse … cow.”
Unless you’ve been buried under a rock, you’ve probably heard of the amazing successful Old Spice viral video marketing campaign (I’ve mentioned it here, and here). Since the original videos became...
View ArticleDigital Culture Links: May 25th 2011
Links for May 14th 2011 through May 25th 2011: Lady Gaga Fans Swamp Amazon for a Cut-Rate Copy of a New Album [NYTimes.com] – “Lady Gaga has made herself a paragon of pop ambition and a spokeswoman for...
View ArticleTwenty Years Ago: Terminator 2 …
Apparently Terminator 2 was released 20 years ago for the US Fourth of July weekend. I’ve been writing about the four Terminator films recently, but realising this film is older than half of my...
View ArticleThis Painting is not available in your country.
Paul Mutant’s painting “This Painting is Not Available in Your Country” perfectly captures the Tyranny of Digital Distance.
View ArticleOld Spice Guy … versus Fabio?!?
It has been just over a year since Isaiah Mustafa’s Old Spice Man character moved from traditional advertising spaces and conquered the internet with the fantastic rolling campaign of YouTube ‘reply’...
View ArticleDigital Culture Links: March 30th
Links for March 26th through March 30th: The Dark Knight Rises Trailer 2: IN LEGO [YouTube] – Beautifully put together Lego version of the new Dark Knight trailer. “LEGO Dark Knight Rises Movie Trailer...
View ArticleDigital Culture Links: July 25th through July 30th
Links for July 25th through July 30th: Apple, Microsoft refuse to appear before IT pricing inquiry [The Age] – “A[n Australian] parliamentary committee wants to force computer giant Apple to appear...
View ArticleOlympic Trolls: Mainstream Memes and Digital Discord?
The themed issue of the Fibreculture journal on Trolls and the negative space of the internet has been released, with a raft of amazing articles, including my piece ‘Olympic Trolls: Mainstream Memes...
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