I saw a Diggnation South Park spoof on Rasterbator using an online South Park creation tool, very cool. I thought I would have a play with it over lunch but needed a subject. I decided to pick on Cameron Reilly and Richard Giles in the G’Day World persona’s. The result:- Not the best but heyContinue reading “South Park does G’Day World”
Category Archives: New Media
The news still gets through
The Thai military have executed a very streamlined, and it seems peaceful coup, while the Thai PM is in the US speaking to the UN. While the military have taken control of television and radio you can still get some news online from independent sources through blogs via Technorati searches, and photos from Flickr, but strangelyContinue reading “The news still gets through”
A podcast with my son
I have been listening to podcasts since early November 2004, the first Australian Podcast I found was G’Day World. Yesterday while driving home I was listening to Accident Hash 175 with my son and CC Chapman made a comment such as “anyone can get into podcasting”. My son looked at me a said “Can they? Continue reading “A podcast with my son”
Are we in an echo chamber?
An issue facing the tech blogosphere is that many people both internal and external to it claim that the blogosphere is just an echo chamber and nothing new comes out. From my limited view point I do not think that the HR blogosphere is an echo chamber, sometimes I feel that we need to linkContinue reading “Are we in an echo chamber?”
Social bookmarking and news
Over the last few weeks I have been playing around with the different social bookmarking/news sites, specifically Digg, Reddit, Netscape and to a lesser extend Newsvine. The strange thing is I am finding them quite addictive. A quick backgrounder if you are unfamiliar with these services. Essentially users submit stories, other users vote and comment,Continue reading “Social bookmarking and news”
4th July – Declare independence from mainstream media!
Found this interesting idea on Cameron’s Brain, declare 4th July as a day of independence from mainstream media. Not being in the US the 4th July is usually just another day, so this is a great idea to give it meaning. The idea was kicked around but a number of people on the New EnglandContinue reading “4th July – Declare independence from mainstream media!”
The sinking sub
Being on a sub going down would be no fun! No one wants to be stuck at the bottom of the ocean in a sub. I suspect this is how the people at PubSub are feeling right now. Bob Wyman has openly spoken about the troubles PubSub is facing (via The RSS Blog). It seemsContinue reading “The sinking sub”
Australian Online Media seems to be catching up
In 2004 the Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year was blog. In 2005 Oxford University Press selected podcast as the word of the year. It seems now Australia is finally catching on to this web 2.0 thing. Sandra Hanchard from Hitwise Asia Pacific has published a post on the Weather, Web 2.0 and Wikipedia showing thatContinue reading “Australian Online Media seems to be catching up”
Corporate communication
While internal communications does not always sit within the realms of HR, how it is perceived by your employees is critical to their engagement. Personally internal communications sits within the Employee Relations area, but I know not everyone agrees. Watson Wyatt recently released a Communication ROI Study which focuses directly on internal communication with employeesContinue reading “Corporate communication”
Heather asks if it is true?
Heather Hamilton asks, is it true? I am sorry to say but yes. We had an interesting discussion on this at BlogTalk Downunder when Mark Bernstein used it as an example in his closing comments.
Michael Specht 