Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
December 2006

New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 85   Video sharing community allows you to create your own video channel Video playlist creator lets you build up and share your own video playlist Video encoder enables you to encode your own videos within your browser Photo credit: Elena Elisseeva Project management tool lets you manage tasks and collaborate online... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

Human Rights Violations - What Mainstream Media Doesn't Tell You: Outlawed Video   America is one of the first ports of call for those seeking asylum from oppressive regimes in which human rights violations make life unbearable. It is ironic, then, that in the post-9/11 landscape America has been responsible for hundreds - if not thousands - of breaches... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- December 30

Video Education: Free Online Learning Resources Mini-Guide   2006 proved itself to be the year of online video, and as the medium has evolved more and more free online resources have become readily available for those willing to look for them. As universities get wise to the Open Courseware concept, and independent video producers... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- December 29

Corporate Newsmastering And OPML Reading Lists: The BlogBridge RSS Feed Library - Video Review   For corporate newsmasters OPML reading lists are an excellent way of gathering and custom-distributing thematic collections of RSS Feeds within the organization. By being able to effectively aggregate, organize, label, and provide selected access to thematic RSS feeds collections, corporate digital information librarians are now given... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- December 28

Online Marketing: Traditional Media Gives Way To Conversation-Based Web Marketing Channels   Corporate Web sites may not push out awesome viewership statistics compared to many media sites, but the data coming out of recent research is pointing to direct communications with online audiences providing multiples more impact on their bottom lines than media-based advertising. Photo credit: Andres Rodriguez Online media... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- December 27

Online Video Publishing - Customize Your Blog Or Webpage With Google's API   Online video is a great way to add rich content to your blog or website, whether you are keeping a personal journal or running a for-profit operation. The Google Ajax Search API is a great way of being able to customize the way you display your... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick - Google Playground -- December 26

Web Presentation Gets Better: Create Flash Presentations Online With SPresent   Web presentation applications have really moved forward in 2006, but there are few contenders that challenge the excellent SPresent in terms of the ability to create powerful flash presentations online in a matter of minutes. With a rich feature-set that steps up to PowerPoint and doesn't... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- December 25

New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 84   Phone calls forwarder lets you receive calls from the Web by forwarding them to your real phone number Phone calling widget enables your site visitors to call you through their web browser Status displayer for VoIP and IM lets you show your online presence status on different networks Photo... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- December 24

Iraq News: Bloggers And Independent Journalists Are The Only Reliable Sources For Western Media News (Before They Are Censored)   Iraq War: Bloggers And Independent Journalists Bring Back The News The Western Media Can't Touch - Iraq: The Hidden Story - Video Highlights Independent journalist Diyaa Al-Nasiri taking cover from gunfire Native Iraqi independent journalists and political bloggers engaged with real people on the ground level are bringing... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick and Robin Good - Channel 4 -- December 23

Alternate Reality Games: Daily Narratives Turn Into Interactive Cross-Media Games (Part I)   What is an ARG? What if reality were different? What if you suddenly discovered not just different customs but different rules, different rewards, wholly different aspirations - a reality in which everyday occurences were not exactly what you thought, in which certain activities suddenly took on... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment The IGDA Alternate Reality Games SIG - IGDA -- December 22

Interaction, Co-Creation, Tagging, User Participation: This Is Information Architecture 3.0   At a recent gathering of CIOs, I was introduced, not as an information architect, interaction designer, or librarian, but as a futurist. I figure this affords me the latitude to make a prediction. Next year, after the bubble bursts, we will enter the era of Information... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Peter Morville - Semantic Studios -- December 21

New Media Trends And 2007 Predictions: What's Coming?   As always, much of what you have seen in 2006 is only an anticipation of yet more innovative, effective and useful new media technologies to appear in the coming months. In this yearly "technology predictions" article I take a look at key new media technology areas... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 20

RSS Feeds Monetization: How To Profit From RSS Feeds   XML-based datafeeds are becoming popular tools for delivering content to online audiences from Web sites. But such RSS feeds are far from popular with publishers intent on boosting page view statistics and fearing leakage through content that's delivered to users who will never come in to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- December 19

Personalized Home Page Meets Virtual Desktop: YourMinis - Video Intro   Personalized home page meets online virtual desktop: YourMinis - allows you to customize your own personal start page through RSS and OPML imports, full widget integration and open sharing of your newly aggregated content. The personalized home page has proved itself to be a great way... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- December 18

New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 83   VoIP tools allow you to make cheap international calls from your computer Web presentation service lets you upload presentations and edit them within your browser Mobile instant messaging service lets you access all major IM networks from your mobile phone Photo credit: Andrea Rubini Web word processor allows you to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- December 17

9-11 Investigation: Key 9-11 Facts And Assumptions Challenged By Prof. David Ray Griffin Video - 9-11: Myth Or Reality?   9-11 Investigation: key facts and assumptions about the 9-11 tragedy are systematically dismantled and proven false by retired theologician and active book writer Prof. David Ray Griffin. His documentary video - 9-11: Myth Or Reality? has some valuable insight everyone with an open mind should... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - David Ray Griffin -- December 16

How The Web Is Transforming Itself: Summary and Outlook - Part VII   "During the last few years, new forms of content generation and organisation on the World Wide Web have emerged. Services such as blogs, wikis and podcasting give users the opportunity to become authors and to express themselves. For the first time, even users lacking the knowledge... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Josef Kolbitsch and Hermann Maurer - Journal of Universal Computer Science -- December 15

Remix-Based Read/Write Culture Vs. The Read-Only Choke-Hold: Lawrence Lessig Video Highlights   The Read/Write culture of the remix and mash up are reshaping the web as we know it. Photo credit: Jonan Basterra But both continue to be threatened by those who would maintain an economic choke-hold on creativity. For while smart start-ups and media producers are backing the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Lawrence Lessig and Michael Pick -- December 14

Web Site Usability Testing And Expert Usability Review: Which Is The Best Solution?   One question we're often asked is which method is best: usability testing or expert usability reviews? Well, if they were sports cars, expert usability reviews might be a Porsche (pretty decent car and better than no car at all), but usability testing would be in a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Lisa Halabi - Webcredible -- December 13

IP Telephony Marries The Web: Voice 2.0 - A Manifesto For The Future   We’re witnessing the beginnings of a titanic clash between the Internet and the telecommunications industry. My hope is that clash will be the, albeit painful, evolution of Voice into a full blow internet application - the birth of Voice 2.0. Voice 2.0 is the next step... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Alec Saunders - Iotum -- December 12

Environmental Health - Vinyl: Sustainable, Flexible Friend Or Poison Plastic? Video Face Off   Vinyl is everywhere. In any room of your house you are likely to find it, whether in the form of toys, bottles and electrical appliances or even the pipes carrying your water. To manufacturers it is thought of as a flexible friend - a plastic easy... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- December 11

New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 82   Looking for how to create your own video channel online or for how to access your favourite video clips through your mobile phone? Want to know how to reach all of the major instant messaging networks from your mobile phone? Here is Robin Good's weekly collection... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- December 10

Social Networks And Social Services: How The Web Is Transforming Itself - Part VI   Social networks and a whole new kind of social services are the heart of the deep transformational changes the web is going through. Social factors play an ever increasing important role within media and the ability to cooperate, collaborate and coordinate ideas, projects and complex work... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Josef Kolbitsch and Hermann Maurer - Journal of Universal Computer Science -- December 9

Tsunami Video: Tsunami Prevention - What Could Have Been Done   In this set of video footage from the 2004 tsunami, some interesting clips focusing on the issue of tsunami prevention, what could have been done and what should be done in the future to avoid similar tragedies from repeating themselves. Map of the hit areas from the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 8

Tsunami Video: Tsunami Survivors Report Their Experiences   Tsunami 2004: video clips of survivors from the tsunami report their experience during the tragic moments when the gigantic wave hit the coastline. Some of these videos are coming from professional news sources like international TV stations and news agencies. To view the videos listed below you only... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 8

Tsunami Video: The Best Tsunami Video Anthologies   In this mini-collection of tsunami video clips are some of the most remarkable images of what the 2004 tsunami left after it hit the shores of many south Asian countries. Picture of Banda Aceh before and after 2004 Tsunami - Photo credit: mundo-francisco From the east Africa coast... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 8

Tsunami Video - Key Video Clips Of The 2005 Tsunami As It Hits   Looking for tsunami video footage? Here finally are some of the most impressive tsunami video footage I have gathered from a multiplicity of sources (check credits for each). Thanks to the advent of online video publishing and free video sharing services I have now been able to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 8

Internet TV Guide - 60 Second Previews Of Internet TV Channels: The Channel Channel   Internet TV is expanding at a breathtaking rate, and 2006 has been the year of Internet video. But the sheer amount of video content out there makes finding something worth watching a sometimes grueling task. Let's face it, among the rare finds and priceless gems there... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- December 8

Online Collaboration And SOHO Web Conferencing: Acrobat Connect Is The New Reference   Yesterday, Adobe officially announced the release of the new Adobe Acrobat 8 which carries now within itself the fertile seed of easy-to-use real-time online collaboration for just about everyone. The new Acrobat Connect not only facilitates instantaneous document exchange and review but makes web conferencing and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 7

Business Blogs And The Business Of Online Publishing: Survey Provides Useful Insights (Part II)   A blog is constantly evolving, growing and developing. Bloggers are looking for new and better software, exciting and innovative information to post and for new links to increase their presence on search engines. As we have reported in the first part of this research, the bloggers... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Nora Ganim Barnes - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - Center for Marketing Research -- December 6

Screen-Sharing: One-Click Solution Lets Anyone Screen-Share Instantly From Any OS - LiveLOOK   Want to share your screen instantly to somebody else, no matter what computer you or him are using? Now you can: a new real-time screen-sharing solution allows anyone to live share the contents of his screen with anyone else. No software to download, no setup or... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 5

Open Video Platform Becomes Gateway To Internet Television Experience: Democracy TV Gets Better   Online video, or what we are increasingly referring to as Internet television, can't be really appreciated unless there are tools that simplify, facilitate and enrich the process of searching, playing, sharing and publishing online video content. The new Democracy video platform, a free, open-source tool which... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- December 4

New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 81   Looking for how to send SMS messages to your group of contacts at once or access all major instant messaging networks from one single web page with no need to install any software? Needing to communicate more effectively without having a big budget? Here is Robin... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- December 3

Free Speech: What I Hear, What I see, Leave It Up To Me - FCC FU Video   Restriction on free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions... Video: FCC FU - Full Version "Protest and activism take many forms. Some people write their Congressperson... some initiate and sign petitions... some organize and participate in marches. Many donate their time,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment FCCFU Editors - FCCFU.com -- December 2

What Mainstream Media Doesn't Tell You: Medical Treatment And The Business Of Disease   Pete Boardman is a cancer patient. He has first hand experience with our system of disease treatment, having been diagnosed with cancer and gone through the routine of surgery and chemotherapy. He believes that the treatment routine of our "modern" medicine may be oriented towards profit... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Sepp Hasslberger and Pete Boardman - Health Supreme -- December 2

Social Bookmarking Services And Tools: The Wisdom Of Crowds That Organizes The Web   Social bookmarking has been one of Web 2.0's success stories, tapping into the social dimension of the evolving internet, the power of online collaboration and the wisdom of crowds. Photo credit: Maarten Janssen The web is vast. Far too vast for anyone to have a hope of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- December 1

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