No Tesco, Starbucks or Walmart in your town? Add your own with SketchUp and Google Earth… Google recently released SketchUp a 3D modeling program that allows users to create virtual mock-ups of everything from a garden deck (dad!) to a… Continue Reading
Getting your boss to spend $395 to send you to the two day Sex in Videogames (08-09 June in San Francisco) might be a bit of a challenge, but imagine the fun you’ll have if you do get to go!… Continue Reading
According to BBC News Online, Radio1 has “staked a claim to a virtual tropical island where it can stage online music festivals and throw exclusive celebrity parties. The rented island exists in online game Second Life and will hold its… Continue Reading
Americans often laugh at what they see as the over-regulation of, well, just about everything in Europe. Now we can laugh, and cringe a bit, at a new law proposed by Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick, in China a Pennsylvania Republican, author… Continue Reading
With the potential to start earning as much as $5 (£2.68 / EU 3.92) per article TODAY, I bet they’ll have queues of "citizen reporters" waiting to sign up for their Out2 Press Pass. Now we can all be like… Continue Reading
An Amsterdam based artist, Lotte Meijer, has created "broadcast your podcast", a technology and an idea to help podcasters get their content into the FM radio band. "The idea is to allow people to hear podcasts without the need for… Continue Reading
Jeff Jarvis just came to visit us at work. I guess he thought he was talking to people more important than most of us sat there because he kept talking about the need to open up to contributions from our… Continue Reading
I’m tired of talking about the we media forum already. I guess the idea of the event was to bring together two spheres that need and feed off each other so that they could argue about who was going to… Continue Reading
I’ll continually update this page with links to stuff created by people who attended and/or covered the we media fringe. Let me know if you’ve published something: robin at cybersoc dot com Photos: "wemediafringe" is the #2 tag#1 tag of… Continue Reading
Well, we did it. We managed to hold an interesting, well attended, productive and provocative fringe event alongside the We Media Forum. I hope, and think, that it was much more than just a social event for the conference –… Continue Reading