Whenever my wife has difficulty sleeping she usually asks me to explain the principles behind social software. While the technical aspects behind it are less than exciting, she may find one social software project, which officially launches today, actually interesting. Why? Because it might just help us find a decent builder in the area. One of the first projects to map the comments of real people to real places is
Jindal is also right to make the point that traditional marketing is “fantastically wasteful in trying to influence niche, expert communities”. In fact, the COI New Media Director (idiot more like) who recently called for ABC audits to be practically mandatory in NMA is simply re-running the failed argument that you have to treat new media like old media and blast advertising across sites as if it is a broadcast
Quite frankly, who gives a $*&()%$ if these sites are
One particular problem is the practice of online “grooming” by paedophiles. The University of Central Lancashire has published research showing one in five children aged nine to 16 uses chatrooms and that three in four children who go on to meet ‘virtual’ friends are not accompanied by an adult. However, the site accompanying the campaign seems to have a rather ambivalent message. At ThinkUknow.co.uk the advice segways casually with a
When I was at the Industry Standard Europe magazine we uncovered a story that the FT had spent closer to
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