Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
October 2006

Internet Television: Brightcove Launches First 360° Internet TV Business Platform   Internet Television is indeed coming. But the best news is that small independent publishers, video makers and indie producers have now a new powerful ally facilitating their publishing, distribution and video monetization goals. And with such rapid expansion of online video publishing services, offering higher quality... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick and Robin Good -- October 31

Yellow Pages 2.0: MojoPages - The Birth Of A Company In A Four Minute Video   MoJoPages is about to launch the grassroots version of the Yellow Pages. Find your business by looking and checking out what other people have rated, voted and commented. The story of this brilliant idea is documented in this short video clip (4':24") providing an excellent visual... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- October 30

Introduction To Blogs - How The Web Is Transforming Itself - Part II   To date, one of the main aims of the World Wide Web has been to provide users with information. In addition to private homepages, large professional information providers, including news services, companies, and other organisations have set up web-sites. Photo credit: Fastcompany.com With the development... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Josef Kolbitsch and Hermann Maurer - Journal of Universal Computer Science -- October 30

New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 76   Looking for the latest new media tools, web 2.0 services or for just-released new independent publishing software? Searching for how to distribute content online? Needing to communicate more effectively without having a big budget? Here is Robin Good's weekly collection of the best new media... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- October 29

9-11 Official Timeline: The Story We Never Heard Shown In New Documentary - 9-11 Press for Truth   9-11 And The Presidential Daily Briefing Of August 6th 2001 - 9-11 Official Timeline: The Story We Never Heard Shown In New Documentary - 9-11 Press for Truth. The news investigation on 9-11 conducted by independent media keeps churning out more and more interesting research material.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 28

The Future Of Art - How The Internet Is Reshaping Artists' Universe: An Analysis By Andy Oram (Part II)   The future of art and the entire artists' universe is likely to be reshaped by the internet and the new media. Whenever a commentator makes grandiose statements about history, the reader can legitimately anticipate that they will lead in to some audacious announcement about the future, couched... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Andy Oram - Praxagora -- October 27

New Personal Information Manager Bridges On- And Off-line Worlds: Scrybe - Video Intro   Scrybe, due for a beta launch this month, looks to be a powerful web-based personal information manager with a host of intuitive features. With the ability to work on or offline with to-do lists, zoomable calendars and scheduling, multiple time-zone project planning and collaboration, and stylishly... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick and Livia Iacolare -- October 26

Virtual Reality Worlds: Content Distribution Grows In Virtual Communities - Second Life   Virtual reality worlds may represent a test bed for experimenting and prototyping new ways to communicate, market and distribute content online. This is the fascinating proposition that content distribution analyst John Blossom offers while sharing his insight into the potential of virtual world realities like the one... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- October 25

What Is Free Software? A Reply From The Source: Richard Stallman Video Interview   A few days ago I had the honour of hosting in my Rome apartment, freedom activist and hacker Richard Stallman, a near-like mythological figure in the world of computing, hacking and a pioneer figure in supporting free software as a political weapon. Photo credit: www.pspain.net Wikipedia, which devotes... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 24

Internet Television: Corporate TV Goes After P2P Networks   The phenomenon of Internet television is rising many controversies among the supporters and owners of traditional corporate TVs, because of the potentially devastating changes it might provoke in the mass media world. The unstoppable growth of the online social media networks automatically leads internet users... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare -- October 23

New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 75   Looking to find the latest new media tools, web services and the just-released new application software for independent publishing, for distributing content online or for communicating more effectively without needing to have a big budget? Here is our weekly collection of the best new media tools... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- October 22

9/11 Twin Towers Collapse: Independent Media Research Brings Back A Different Story - Video Clips   As people reject the spin-heavy, information-lite mass media and turn to networked, participatory media emerging through blogs, podcasting and video sharing services like YouTube, truth becomes no longer the property of the few. It is being negotiated by active, engaged participants in the new media landscape... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Michael Pick -- October 21

Video Marketing Online: How To Effectively Market With Video On The Web   Online video marketing is the key business differentiator for web companies wanting to communicate effectively their product profile and benefits within the shortest possible time. There is nothing else that comes close to the effectiveness and persuasion power of a well designed video message. This doesn't mean... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- October 20

New Media Shaping The Future Of Art, Music And Literature: An Analysis By Andy Oram (Part I)   The Internet has raised new possibilities for art, music, literature, and film simply by streamlining familiar activities. Digitization and downloading make it faster, easier, and less expensive to store, distribute, extract samples from, and issue comments on the arts - activities that have already gone on... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Andy Oram - Praxagora -- October 19

Media Advertising Reality And The Manufactured Beauty Myth - Video   ''There is a secret "underlife" poisoning our freedom; infused with notions of beauty, it is a dark vein of self-hatred, physical obsessions, terror of aging, and dread of lost control." Naomi Wolf - The Beauty Myth Photo Credit: Adam Radosavljevic "No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted. Every... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- October 18

Web 2.0: What Is A Mash Up? Marshall Kirkpatrick Video Interview   Web 2.0 has unleashed an era of online participation, personalization and interoperability set to change the way we network, do business and interact with the media that engulf us. One of the most exciting developments in recent times is that of the mashup. The term mashup can... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 17

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasting, Social Networks And File Sharing: How The Web Is Transforming Itself - Part I   To date, one of the main aims of the World Wide Web has been to provide users with information. In addition to private homepages, large professional information providers, including news services, companies, and other organisations have set up web-sites. Photo credit: Fort Photo With the development and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Josef Kolbitsch and Hermann Maurer - Journal of Unkiversal Computer Science -- October 16

New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 74   Sharewood Picnic is the weekly collection of the most interesting new media tools and resources selected and reviewed by Robin Good and Livia Iacolare. Here our favorite new tools and services for this week: Photo credit: Dave Le Web-based editor that allows you to create text documents... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- October 15

Social Bookmarking Meets Social Networking: Blue Dot – Video Intro   Social bookmarking meets social networking: Blue Dot pushes an evolutionary step forward the basecamp from where future online communities will start forming – Video Intro Blue Dot is a free service that combines the social bookmarking abilities popularized by del.icio.us with the social networking features of MySpace... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Michael Pick -- October 14

Peer-To-Peer Art: How P2P Networks Are Transforming The Creative Landscape   Peer-to-peer networks are transforming the independent art distribution paradigm as well as the traditional creative landscape dominated so far by large commercial corporations. The floodgates have opened. Hard copy media – CDs, DVDs, magazines and newspapers – are going the way of the dinosaurs. Just ask Tower... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- October 13

Web 2.0: Ten Ways Non-Profits Can Start Leveraging Social Media   Unless non-profits start using Web 2.0 tools from the bottom-up, and by first exposing themselves to what it takes to work with social media, their attempts to upgrade and optimize their communication efforts will only appear a utopian dream that finds little match within their organizational... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Marnie Webb - ext337.org -- October 12

Web 2.0 - How Networked Media Are Reshaping Business: Alan Moore - Video Interview   Web 2.0 is reshaping the media and business landscape to an extent unimaginable even a year ago. Photo credit: Alan Moore At the very center of this shift in how media is produced and consumed and in how businesses function, is the increased importance of community, collaboration... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick and Robin Good -- October 11

Independent Film-Making Sets Stage Inside Computer Games Virtual Worlds: Machinima   "There's a new kid on the block of independent film-making, and it's offering everyone who wants to try the chance to make their own Matrix: a thing called 'Machinima'. Machinima's a new form of film-making that uses computer games technology to shoot films in the virtual reality... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- October 10

Screen Sharing And Remote Control Keep Getting Better With GoToMeeting v3 - Review   "Screen sharing is generally understood as the technologically-empowered ability to transmit the contents of your computer screen to one or more remotely connected Internet users. In other words screen-sharing allows you to show PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, images and any other software running on your computer... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 9

New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 73   Photo credit: Says-It Vinyl Record Generator Web-based collaboration tool integrates VoIP, web conferencing and digital media support Online space to buy, sell and promote people's original creative works Mobile community that connects you to your friends and information, anytime and anywhere Sell items on your own webpage without needing... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- October 8

Web Presentations With Sound: Soundslides Makes Creating Online Audio-Visual Presentations Easy   Web Presentations With Sound: Soundslides Makes Online Audio-Visual Presentations Easy To Create, and Publish On The Web. Soundslides is a simple, affordable way of getting audio-visual presentations onto the web. With no more than a folder of image files and an audio recording of your narration, Soundslides... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- October 7

Participatory Media - Who Owns The Work You Share? - Video   Participatory media has exploded in recent times, and moves from strength to strength almost daily, with new services arriving and evolving that make communicating easier than ever. But who owns the work you share? We are living through a huge shift away from top-down, one-way mass... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick - COA News -- October 6

Why Software Patents Stifle Innovation And Kill Competition - Video   Software Patents Stifle Innovation And Kill Competition In Favour Of A Few. A software patent effectively stifles innovation and ensures that an elite few reap the rewards, while everyone else is left out in the cold. While Copyright, Copyleft and Creative Commons licenses protect authors work in... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick - The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure -- October 5

Web 2.0 Meets SmartMobs: Howard Rheingold Views On Web 2.0 - Exclusive Interview   Web 2.0 Meets Smartmobs: Howard Rheingold Views On Web 2.0 and How Traditional Mass Media Can Adapt To The Sweeping Changes Generated by New Social Media - Exclusive Interview Howard Rheingold has been very kind in sparing some little time to share his personal views on the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 4

Web Accessibility Meets Web 2.0: What Future Ahead?   The advent of Web 2.0 technologies, user-generated content and the increased use of delivery technologies like PDF and Flash have created a whole new category of usability and accessibility issues that challenge and clash with the design and accessibility design approaches web site designers had been... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Trenton Moss - Webcredible -- October 3

Social Networks Meet News Aggregation And Filtering: Information Routing Groups   Social networks meet news aggregation and filtering: social collaborative newsmastering is all around us. But someone got an early view on it just before the first personal computers started to get around us. As early as 1980 Dave Andrews, an independent writer had started... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment David Andrews -- October 2

New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 72   Photo credit: Dave Le VoIP service allows you to call international numbers at $1.00 per week plus the cost of a local call Edit your digital photos and mix music, videos, and games in 2D and 3D environments Web-based service that allows you to share documents and ideas with... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- October 1

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