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30 Dec 08

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  • Events such as this give tangible expression to the repression within the MAVM, for it is here that the compromises are made. It is here that filmmakers subject themselves to the humilating process of ‘pitching’, and to a pathetic scramble for the privilege of lunching with a TV Commissioning Editor, in an attempt to sell their product (documentary films). It is here that the endless, breath-taking hype about creating a “TV of excellence”, and buzz words like “relevancy”, “out of the box thinking”, “cutting edge”, etc., abound.

FT.com / Companies / Technology - Companies use Twitter to pack PR punch

Bob Pearson, head of communities and conversation for Dell, said his company had generated $1m in computer-related sales through alerts posted to Twitter.

San Francisco-based Twitter is also becoming a platform for a range of media and social networking start-ups using its tools to develop communities and content rapidly, and at low cost.

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27 Dec 08

BBC NEWS | Technology | Technology we have loved in 2008

  • But back to those services. There's only one that I've used above all others: Twitter. I've been a user for sometime but it's only in the last year, with the launch of web apps like Twhirl, and the mobile client Twitterific that the service has become indispensable.

    It's part communication tool, part messenger service, but for me at least, it's mainly a tool for filtering content. I use the Twitter feeds of key services and the feeds of key thought leaders to help inform me about the wider world.

  • My epiphany about the most important technology of 2008 was prompted by one of the better science fiction novels I read this year - Halting State by Charles Stross.

    Though set in a fictional future it is, like much SF, more about the problems of today than tomorrow. Net access via mobile is central to the book's plot and that emphasis struck a chord - particularly when it is matched with some of the other things happening in the mobile world.

    This year has seen the rise of the netbook - the cheap, web-connected laptop that folk can tote around and do that web stuff.

16 Nov 08

The generation raised on the internet | The kids are alright | The Economist

  • There is growing neuroscientific support for this claim. People who play video games, for example, have been found to process complex visual information more quickly. They may also be better at multi-tasking than earlier generations, which equips them better for the modern world.



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  • Confirmed, however, is the idea that blogging is useful and versatile. In essence, it is a straightforward content-management system that posts updates in reverse-chronological order and allows comments and other social interactions. Viewed as such, blogging may “die” in much the same way that personal-digital assistants (PDAs) have died. A decade ago, PDAs were the preserve of digerati who liked using electronic address books and calendars. Now they are gone, but they are also ubiquitous, as features of almost every mobile phone.
03 Nov 08

UK PR companies missing out on digital opportunity

Only 21% of the agencies surveyed included Internet PR as part of their service offering. Of those, however, only 14% of the operations that claimed to have new media covered published their own blogs.

Taken as a whole, only 11% of UK PR Consultancies use blogs to communicate with clients, colleagues and the wider marketplace.

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28 Oct 08

BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | Ray Ozzie and the business of clouds

  • Sam Schillace of Google Docs boasts that his entire team costs about the same as the cafe where they eat. Mr Schillace feels that's an advantage, claiming that nimbleness, openness and velocity are the watchwords of the cloud era.
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