Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
September 2007






  • What Is A Wiki: Wikis Explained In Simple Words


      I have now been using wikis for over four years, and frankly I couldn't do without them anymore. Their ability to facilitate my frequent needs to create shared workspaces in which I can easily add, edit and upload information and files of all kinds makes them...
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    Lee and Sachi Lefever - CommonCraft -- September 30




    Education: Do We Really Need Schools Or Do We Need To Better Understand What Education Should Really Be?


      How do we educate our children to be active, critical thinkers and not dumb passive consumers serving someone else interests? For however strange this may sound to you, it may have been "marketing" itself to bring us the terrible education system most civilized countries have adopted...
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    John Taylor Gatto - Harper's Magazine -- September 29




    Media Consumption Survey: How Americans Consume Media And What They Want From It


      How are US citizens consuming media and what do they want from it? Deloitte’s Media & Entertainment has published the results of its first comprehensive media consumption survey, providing a generational “reality check” on how American consumers between 13 and 75 years of age are using...
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    Deloitte & Touche - Deloitte & Touche USA -- September 28




    Advertising Metrics: What's More Important Page Views Or User Experience Satisfaction?


      Is it better to optimize your web site for page views or for user experience? This is the question that more and more online publishers are asking themselves as advertising agencies and the buzz around new metrics hint at the need to look in new directions...
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    Joshua Porter - Bokardo -- September 27










  • Enhance Your Mobile Video Clips Image Quality With MotionDSP FixMyMovie


      A newly launched web-based service allows you to easily improve the quality of your video clips by simply letting it analyze your clip and making automatic adjustments to it. The only thing you need to do is to upload your video clips and FixMyMovie does all...
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    Robin Good -- September 26




    Best Of Breed Web Conferencing, Online Collaboration And Live Web Presentation Into One Tool: Acrobat Connect Professional Reviewed


      Acrobat Connect Professional, the flagship web conferencing and online collaboration technology from Adobe, keeps, improving and remaining the real-time conferencing solution to beat. In this updated review I look again at Connect Professional key features, strengths and weaknesses to provide a comprehensive, independent evaluation of what...
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    Robin Good -- September 25




    Personal Video Recorder On The Web: Record Italian TV Programming With Faucet PVR


      A free web-based personal video recorder (PVR) allows the scheduled recording of Italian mainstream on-air network channels which can then be easily downloaded to your iPod or iPhone. The unique service which is purely in experimental "beta" mode and has no commercial ambitions, provides a truly...
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    Robin Good -- September 24




    Design Philosophy: Should Design Serve Art Or Business? The Politics Of Design


      Paul Rand, one of the most prolific and successful American graphic designers of the past century, lays down in this short essay the foundations of what the "politics of design" are all about. Rand's design philosophy is valuable for anyone interested in improving her understanding of...
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    Robin Good -- September 23




    Successful Economies Require Successful Societies:The Wealth of Nations vs. The Wealth of Networks


      "It seems passé today to speak of “the Internet revolution”. In some academic circles, it is positively naïve. But it should not be. The change brought about by the networked information environment is deep. It is structural. It goes to the very foundations of how liberal...
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    Alan Moore - Communities Dominate Brands -- September 22




    Net Neutrality: Online Publishers Providing Little Backing To The Network Neutrality Campaign


      Net neutrality remains a hot topic, even when it seems not to grab any more the top tech headline news. Photo credit: Hypermania and Rui Vale De Sousa - Photo mash-up: Robin Good Network neutrality is about a principle that is applied to residential broadband networks,...
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    John Blossom - Shore -- September 21




    Online Advertising: Information-Rich, Interactive, Engaging, Portable - These Are The New Google Gadgets Ads

      Google just launched Google Gadget Ads, basically, some highly customizable mini-sites in a box, that offer lots of possible applications, interactivity, animation, video and that exist to run as ads on AdSense publisher websites. Here's one: The above is a Google Gadget Ad Google Gadgets Ads are...
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    Robin Good -- September 20




    Web-Based Document Sharing: Google Docs Explained In Simple Words - Video Tutorial


      If you are looking for an easy way to share and collaborate on documents with other people in your team, Google Docs is one of the most interesting web-based alternatives to a Microsoft Office suite with the integrated, built-in ability to make document collaboration a breeze. Google...
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    Lee Lefever - CommonCraft -- September 19




    Google Presentations: The New Google Docs Module For Sharing, Co-Editing And Creating Online Presentations


      "Maybe more than any other type of document, presentations are created to be shared. But assembling slide decks by emailing them around is as frustrating as it is time-consuming. The new presentations feature of Google Docs helps you to easily organize, share, present, and collaborate on...
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    Robin Good -- September 18




    The Online Video Interview Recorder Is Here: SightSpeed 6 Review


      Video interview recording is the ability to record good quality video out of one-to-one at-a-distance video conferencing calls for the purpose of conducting and publishing interviews done with people that cannot be physically present at your location. But for however simple it may sound, video recording both...
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    Robin Good -- September 17




    Social Media: A Video Interview With Sami Viitamäki


      Social media is often perceived by those inside the corporate world as something either too difficult to grasp or as an online time-waster targeted at teenagers. In reality, social media create an ever growing number of opportunities that allow companies to engage into real...
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    Robin Good and Sami Viitamaki -- September 16




    Mobile Phones Risks: True Dangers Of Cell Phone Radiation


      When it comes to cell phones possible dangers I keep hearing the same story: "They are OK, man... there's nothing really harmful about them... yeah, you may want to avoid keeping them close to your head for too a long periods of time but other than...
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    Sue Kovach - LifeExtension -- September 15




    Design: User Experience Strategy Is About Inventing The Future


      User experience "encompasses all aspects of the end-user’s interaction with the company, its services, and its products". And it is this very "user experience" that defines "...the customer’s impression of the company’s offerings, it is user experience that differentiates the company from its competitors, and it is...
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    Peter Morville - Semantic Studios -- September 14




    Search Engine Optimization With Wordpress: All In One SEO Pack for WordPress - Video Tutorial


      If you are a WordPress blogger and you are curious about how you can start optimizing your blog so that your articles come up higher inside Google and other major search engines results pages here are some pointers, a good video tutorial and SEO advice on...
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    Robin Good -- September 13




    Online Collaboration: Just-In-Time Screen-Sharing With All Your Skype Contacts - Yugma For Skype


      Yugma Skype opens-up the door to contextual, just-in-time collaboration, making it possible for any existing Skype user to start screen-sharing, live annotating or giving remote control of the screen to anyone in a few mouse clicks. What's more impressive is that Yugma for Skype supports up...
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    Robin Good -- September 12




    Online Advertising: New Tactics, Metrics And Strategies To Increase Revenues And Traffic


      "Internet advertising revenues in the US set a new record of $16.9 billion in 2006, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau/PricewaterhouseCoopers Internet Advertising Revenue Report. That’s a 35% gain over 2005, and the growth has continued this year: It hit another record of $4.9 billion for...
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    Robin Good - Marketing Sherpa -- September 11




    Video News Channel Captures International TV News You Won't Likely See On Your Mainstream TV: RGTV News


      "Alternative world video news you won't likely see on your mainstream network TV channels." Yes, today, I am officially launching the new RGTV News, a non-commercial non-mainstream video news channel covering international news that don't get coverage on your typical network TV channels. As in the metaphorical...
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    Robin Good -- September 10




    Creativity And Education: Is Creativity Being Driven Out Of Our Education Systems?


      Are we are educating people out of their creative potential? Can we see through our present education system and understand that the purpose and structures on which it was originally built (not so long ago) have all deeply changed? How can we critically view and improve...
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    Sir Ken Robinson - Ted Talks -- September 9




    Morality Starts With Listening: Why Can't We Be Good?


      Notwithstanding the fact that we live in the age of modern communications in which many of you are also active contributors as bloggers, writers, PR and media people of some kind, more often than not, the very core foundations of what communication really is seem to...
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    Robin Good -- September 8




    Presentation Technologies: Breakthrough New Delivery Platform - Vcasmo Integrates PowerPoint With Video


      Increasingly, web 2.0 web sites provide you with a flurry of new tools, services and technologies all supposed to help you better leverage your existing communication skills via social media networks, new online distribution and delivery options and emerging alternative media publishing opportunities. ...and if you are...
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    Robin Good -- September 7




    Design Language: Match Customer Design Slang To Proper Information Design Terms


      Communicating clearly aesthetic concepts and ideas that relate to visual design is most often a much underestimated task. Take design presentation meetings in which you, the designer, are expected to showcase your visual proposal and ideas. Do you and your clients talk the same design language? Photo...
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    Joshua Porter - Bokardo -- September 6




    Usability: Bringing User Centered Design Inside The Organization


      Getting an organization to start appreciating the value of usability and user-centered design is not an easy task. Imagine, getting them into using it! Photo credit: Mipan The greatest obstacle is generally posed by the many organization stakeholders not wanting to change their established rules and practices, workflows...
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    Ismail Ismail - WebCredible -- September 5




    Professional Blogger: How Do You Recognize One?


      As the independent publishing industry gradually grows, an increasing number of online web publishers are running to find the resource they need the most: professional bloggers and talented content writers. Photo credit: Yanik Chauvin But it is not an easy search. In fact, while there are thousands of...
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    Robin Good -- September 4




    Google Penalization: Dropping Out Of Google Search Results And Trying To Understand Its Causes


      The waters have calmed down after an August in which the sudden loss of all search engine traffic coming from Google has created an emergency situation here at Master New Media for over ten days. Having taken the time to study and analyze all that happened...
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    Robin Good -- September 3




    Screencasting Examples - The Best Screencasts From Master New Media


      Screencasting, the live screen-capture of you demonstrating a software or new application is increasingly the solution of choice when it comes to showcase, demonstrate, explain. A few hours ago Marshall Kirkpatrick of Splashcast twittered: "my ? is: what r some good methods 4 turning huge...
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    Robin Good -- September 2




    The Federal Reserve: Is Monetary Power Being Replaced By Private Economic Global Interests?


      In the present world financial system turmoil generated by the collapse for "sub-prime" mortgage bonds, the US Federal Reserve System functions, as it always does, with private meetings and telephone conferences with the great financial houses, deciding in apparent secrecy whether to increase the money supply...
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    Robin Good -- September 1






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