Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
February 2006

Television As We Know It: The Beginning Of The End   "I am in digital-electronics-gadget nirvana. And, I am not afraid to boast. My home sports a fully wireless broadband (WIMAX) Internet environment, where content moves freely among the home server, several multiple high definition (HD) screens, the office PC and the mobile devices that I continually... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Dr. Saul J. Berman, Louisa A. Shipnuck and Niall Duffy - IBM -- February 28

MasterNewMedia Design Challenge: Seven Submissions Awaiting A Winner   The MasterNewMedia Design Challenge closed its submission doors on this Sunday night. Since then I have been giving a good look at the seven official participants to this interface design contest. Photo credit: Dragan Trifunovic The designs submitted attempt to place a new design look on the... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- February 28

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 41   Here is a new basket full of delicacies for our weekend Sharewood Picnic. New media resources and tools gathered during the past 10-15 days await your testing and validation before everyone else hears about them. Here are in fact what I consider the most interesting new... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 26

Connected Social Web Applications: Security Improvements And A Look At The Future   Connected web applications and the social web may create new business opportunities and solutions to unsolvable problems we now seem to have. This is at least Ben Hunt's optimistic vision of what social interconnected web applications could bring to us in the near future. Photo credit: Dimitrios... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Ben Hunt - Web Design from Scratch -- February 25

User Experience Monetization Replaces Content Business Toll Gates   Good content is like water, or a great view: you build business around it, not on it. More and more, online content and media publishers are understanding that giving extra reach, a rich end user experience, mindshare and freedom of access to good, quality content creates much... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 24

The Winning Content Distribution Formula For Online Publishers   The New York Times reports on a video clip of a comedy sketch from NBC's "Saturday Night Live" television show that fans began to circulate on the web to millions of downloaders. Photo credit: Collegehumor.com NBC initially made a legal copy of "Lazy Sunday" available for free... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- February 23

Mobile TV: Italy Launches Anytime, Anywhwere Television Channel   The first full-fledged mobile television channel devoted to broadcast live sports, news and entertainment has just been announced in Milan, Italy. Mobile tv phone - LG U900 Called "La3" (The Three), the new all-Italian television channel broadcasts by utilizing DVB-H technology which allows direct reception from a new... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kataweb -- February 22

Online Open Television Platform Launches Today: Democracy Is Here   For the good and for the bad, television has been one of the most influential factors in the development of our present day culture and world view. While the reality and illusions television has created may not be perfectly marching the ideal world you may have... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 21

P2P-Based Economy: The Political Power Of Peer-To-Peer Networks   Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a deeper transformation of the fundamentals of our social life. Photo credit: Joseph Zlomek As political, economic, and social systems transform themselves into distributed networks, a new... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michel Bauwens - Ctheory.net -- February 20

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 40   Here is a new basket full of delicacies for our weekend Sharewood Picnic. New media resources and tools gathered during the past 10-15 days await your testing and validation before everyone else hears about them. Here are in fact what I consider the most interesting new... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 19

How To Provide Instant Focus To Selected Information Items   One of the reasons why visualisation can be so powerful has its roots in the fact that there's a series of identification and recognition operations that our brain performs in an "automatic" way without the need to focus our attention or even be conscious of them. Pre-attentive... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Juan C. Dürsteler - InfoVis -- February 18

Brand Experience Replaces Broadcasting: Online Communities And User Engagement Are The Access Keys   I am having a bit of a ramble around the demise of mass media, why it happened in the first place and how our digital world is impacting on what we consume and how. Photo credit: Hans Doddema So I came across an interesting book by... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Alan Moore -- February 17

MasterNewMedia Design Challenge: Deadline Extended   The MasterNewMedia Design Challenge, an open interface design contest I have launched two weeks ago to improve the look and feel of this very site, met its final deadline yesterday. No official entries were submitted. As I am trying to evaluate critically my communication strategy it appears... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 16

Can Guaranteed Email Delivery Be A Chargeable Service?   Well here's something I never thought I would see: Yahoo and AOL are going to try to implement a program to charge companies for assured delivery of email to their base of email users. How dumb is this? Photo credit: Dimitrios Kaisaris Let us count the ways. First,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- February 16

What Public Relations Professionals Could Do With RSS: Newsmastering, Newsradars And Personal Media Aggregators   The topics of newsmastering, newsradars and of integrating personal media aggregators into instruments of personal publishing, conversation or even political discourse have yet to be fully picked up by those people who could best benefit from them, though interesting things are already starting to happen all... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Interview with Sally Falkow -- February 15

Video Publishing: Howard Rheingold Supports Ourmedia   Howard Rheingold Howard Rheingold, the author of SmartMobs and a pioneer of online collaboration talks about the benefits of using Ourmedia multimedia video archive for the storage and licensing of the videos of his last Stanford course on "cooperation". You can watch Howard Rheingold's Literacy of Cooperation Lecture... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- February 14

The Interconnected Social Web: Feedback, Trust And Reputation Are The Critical Online New Marketplace Components   A lot of web applications exist to help people find products and services to solve various needs. In this I include all e-commerce sites, all sites that basically market stuff, consumer review sites, yellow pages and other directories. Photo credit: Kirsty Pargeter Where they fail is that... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Ben Hunt - Web Design from Scratch -- February 14

Citizen Media Investigative Reporting Say: It's Not A Theory If You Can Prove It - 9-11: Reopen The Case   Independent citizens, including professionals, filmmakers, government workers and even former US military officials are among the brave new small investigative citizen reporters who have been spending their time to research on their own, what really happened on the tragic September 11th 2001. What they all... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - ReOpen 911 -- February 13

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 39   Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of new media resources and tools. In it you find the best new media tools and picks I discover weekly during my daily research and explorations. The picnic gems I select are all tools and services that while small or... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 12

Web Content Creation: Ten Approaches For Small Online Publishers   A website is more than a container for written articles, news, photos and graphics. Webmasters, authors and small online publishers must also integrate "special" and "uniquely valuable" quality themed-content into it. Photo credit: Alex Bramwell A so-called "sticky" website is one that attracts individuals and encourages them... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Sharon Housley - Feed for All -- February 11

Information Overload: Blogs As Content Navigators, Information Filters, Trusted Niche Guides   We are drowning in a sea of information. It’s a growing torrent that no single person can possibly drink. Photo credit: Alvaro Heinzen In the book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman identifies a turning point in the history of mass communication, the invention of the telegraph.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment James Torio - Everyhuman -- February 10

Paid Web Next? Internet As A Common Carrier Or Cable And Telcos To Spin New Commercial Internet?   In the early days of radio in the U.S. there was very little control over who could use the various frequencies available to both commercial and amateur providers. Both were mixed in together in an interesting if chaotic hodge-podge. Photo credit: Pattie Steib Subsequent regulations separated out... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- February 9

What Is A Blog? It Is Sharing Information - Leonardo Chiariglione   Leonardo Chiariglione, by many considered the father of .mp3, is an Italian scientist who has spent his professional life trying to transform Digital Media from being a potentially useful resource to becoming a set of actual benefits to society and business through such initiatives as HDTV... Link | cat.: Robin Good - TheWeblogProject -- February 9

New Web-Based Telephony Service Gives VoIP Access To Any Computer: JaJah Web Is Here   JaJah, the pioneering communication company, is launching right now, a new, revolutionary web-telephony service, allowing standard phone calls to be made from any computer at highly competitive rates. Called JaJah Web, the new service is launching at this very time at www.jajah.com, with a special offering of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 8

Beppe Grillo Launches Citizen Primaries: Italian Blogger Takes On Participatory Grassroots Politics Via His Own Blog   Up, among the A-list top ten of international independent bloggers there is a new name. A name that if you are not from Italy, you may have never heard before: Beppe Grillo. Presently at position 10 on the Technorati Top 100, Beppe Grillo's blog is fast... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 7

Independent And Autonomous Local Access To The Communication Infrastructure: Which Roads Ahead?   Will internet access be controlled and monopolized by a handful of global internet access providers? Can governments prevent access to certain sites? Perhaps there is an alternative in the making. Photo credit: Youssouf Cader Hundreds of municipalities are recognizing that facilitating internet access is part of their responsibility... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Sepp Hasslberger - Health Supreme -- February 6

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 38   Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of new media resources and tools. In it you find the best new media tools and picks I discover weekly during my daily research and explorations. The picnic gems I select are all tools and services that while small or... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 5

How New Social, Interconnected Applications Give Way To The Untapped Potential Of The Semantic Web   Ben Hunt casts an eye to the future of a more connected web and how we will experience it through new social applications. Photo credit: Scott Maxwell This vision features insights into new search engines, an online marketplace, and solutions for phishing and spam. Ben also predicts... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Ben Hunt - Web Design from Scratch -- February 4

Collaborative Video Documentary Investigating US Media Echo Chamber Role Towards The Iraq War Countdown   Kent Bye, is the author of a unique film documentary in progress that may become a future model for grassroots citizen journalism, while showing how to invest filmmaking skills and ideas in a production that has some real informative values and developing the first web-based collaborative... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Echo Chamber Project -- February 3

Digital Communities And The Power Of Trust: A Look At The Future   Thirty years ago news anchorman, Walter Cronkite, would finish up his hourly news broadcast to the nation of America by saying, ‘and that’s the way it is.” Kronkite was the daily voice of gospel news truth, and America was duly grateful. How very different it is... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Alan Moore - SMLXL -- February 2

Folksonomies: Tags Strengths, Weaknesses And How To Make Them Work   1. Introduction A folksonomy is a type of distributed classification system. It is usually created by a group of individuals, typically the resource users. Users add tags to online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks and text. These tags are then shared and sometimes refined. Photo credit:... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Guy Marieke and Emma Tonkin - DLib Magazine -- February 1

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