Michael Specht

An imperfect blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and other random thoughts.

Entries Tagged as 'New Media'

The innovators dilemma

June 4th, 2007 · No Comments · New Media, Technology · 1,352 views

Another article from the NY Times where it seems the technology that “made” the pornography industry is being used against itself and as such could fundamentally change the industry.
Basically as Clayton Christensen called it “The Innovator’s Dilemma”. Existing powerhouses invest heavily in technology (the big traditional pornography houses) only to be beaten at their [...]

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Photowalking in Hong Kong

May 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment · New Media, Personal, Photography · 1,225 views

Yesterday I went out and about walking and traveling around Hong Kong for just over 5 hours, end result 135 photos and 5 or 6 videos. While the photos are going to take a while to sort through I have pulled together a quick video with some stills of my trip up the Peak [...]

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Why Web 2.0 sucks

April 27th, 2007 · 3 Comments · New Media, Technology · 1,867 views

Charlie over at This is going to be BIG has pulled together a list of 10 reasons Web 2.0 sucks.  In reading the post I found that it tied in nicely with some of the things in my recent post about how many people were really online.  Go read the full post to get all [...]

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How many people are online?

April 23rd, 2007 · 5 Comments · Blogging, Future, New Media, Recruitment · 2,684 views

During the recent discussion on “Do You Need a Resume?” we were reminded that not everyone is online or knows how to find you online. Many people are still scared of technology, don’t understand it or are just plain ignorant of what can be achieved. (This is not just in the workplace [...]

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The ROI of a corporate blog

February 7th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Blogging, Branding, New Media · 3,401 views

Over the last few years there has been lots of talk about how to measure the ROI of a corporate blog, I have written about it a fews times. At the end of the day ROI of a blog is hard to measure, unless you sell advertising which most corporate blogs do not.
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Superbowl ads, and social medai

February 5th, 2007 · No Comments · New Media, Social Networks · 1,868 views

I don’t get what is with the SuperBowl ads, maybe it is just because I am not in the US.  Yes occasionally there are great ads, remember 1984, but most seem to be a huge waste of money for already established brands. At US$2.5mil + for 30 seconds there are better ways of getting [...]

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Nortel launches a corporate blog

January 24th, 2007 · No Comments · New Media, Technology · 2,213 views

Today (or yesterday depending on your timezone) Nortel launched our first external blog being written by John Roese our new CTO.  The blog has all the expected features of a blog, RSS, trackbacks, comments (yes they are moderated) and is running Wordpress.
Great to see!
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Election Campaigns and Enterprise 2.0

December 29th, 2006 · No Comments · Enterprise 2.0, New Media · 2,655 views

Overnight John Edwards used YouTube as one of the means to announce his candidacy for the US Presidential elections. John Edwards has been using the internet and social/new media (podcasts, videocasts) for a while now so this is no surprise. For me this indicates a “tipping point” in the acceptance of “new media” [...]

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Digg launches new version

December 19th, 2006 · No Comments · New Media · 1,272 views

Digg has launched a new version over the last 24 hours, it now includes the ability to Digg multimedia content such as video and podcasts.   Huge coverage all over the place in summary:-
Interface Design, Digg Goes Widescreen
We’ve gone from a fixed width layout to a flexible one allowing you to make use of your [...]

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Web 2.0 - not a bubble until it bursts

November 8th, 2006 · 10 Comments · New Media, Technology · 3,327 views

Over the last few weeks I have noticed more and more talk that this Web 2.0 thing is really a bubble and about to burst. For me it started with MySpace being picked up for US$580 million by News Corp and just getting hotter and hotter with the biggest indicator we are going to [...]

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