online information 2008 - day one
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under web 2.0
Online Information 2008 is a combination of a trade show for information companies, conference (keynote speaker being Clay Shirky, professor at NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, author of Here Comes Everybody, about which I wrote down below) and seminar series entitled Information Management Solutions. Since, my pass did not go through and the conference costs [...]
Tags: branding, london, marketing, michael nutley, online information 2008, social media, viral marketing, web 2.0
reading list
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic, books, web 2.0
Recently, we have seen an onslaught of books about social media and its impact on society and (somewhat more importantly) business. Some of these accounts are more academic, some are more pop. My idea is to give you a sketch on those, which I read for my thesis. The working title is “Economic Value of [...]
Tags: free labor, MA thesis, produsage, web 2.0, wikinomics we-think clay shirky geert lovink blogging
CoMundus blogs
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic, blogging, web 2.0
CoMundus is a consortium of European universities on which you can pursue an MA program entitled Media, Communication and Cultural Studies. If you are “third country” national (yeah sounds a lot like “third world” country, in short non-EU, non-EU candidate) and lucky, you can get an Erazmus Mundus scholarship, which would make your life a [...]
the end of (facebook) innocence
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic, web 2.0
Facebook really took off when its creators opened it to users outside university/school networks, which was also marked with the proliferation of applications. People use Facebook to kill time, but majority use it to see what their friends are up to, to stay in touch with people, who moved away, went to school or are [...]
Tags: Facebook, free labor, lovink, user-generated content, web 2.0
what’s next for music
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic, music, popcult, web 2.0
Faced with the widespread torrent or p2p network downloads, record companies are teaming up with social networks trying to monetize on the increasing online participation.
MySpace Music being the last foray in this area.
As a social network, MySpace has been associated with teenagers and unsigned musicians, who hoped to be spotted and propelled into stardom (there [...]
Tags: Facebook, Last.fm, MA thesis, MOG, music, MySpace, online music services, social networking
