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Radar Cultura Gets Social

George Williams — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:25:26 +0000

Once more we cast our gaze at the cutting edge, a place where social media and broadcast blur together against the fractal landscape of evolving technology. As Facebook and Twitter become the words on everyone's lips, change is hard to ignore. "Social," and "user generated content" have become the catchphrases often used by those trying to get a handle on the newly evolving business model.

Case in point: Radar Cultura, a small community station in the South end of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Using the tools of today's socially driven Internet, they have enacted a collaborative model for station operations based on their use of Drupal, an open source content management system (CMS) known for its versatility and interactivity.

Via BBC News- Digital Planet:

"Any other radio station who wants to use the same system behind Radar Cultura, is able to download the software from Drupal's website," [creator Andre Avorio] added.

Much of the information published on the site is also released under the Creative Commons license so anyone can take and use it freely.

"The idea is to create collaborative radio and the audience is invited to produce everything," said Leah Ranja, the station's internet producer.

How interesting to find this so soon on the heels of my post about Creative Commons in radio. Not quite what I was speaking of, but still a vibrant and functional use of the CC system. It looks like Mr. Avorio deserves props for both innovation and implementation.

Check out the way they have embraced the social web: Radar Cultura on Flickr and on YouTube.

You know what? I really love finding stuff like this in the news!

Photo courtesy of RadioCultura used under its Creative Commons license

The less words on a webinar slide, the better

mullygrub — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:59:54 +0000

One of the things we learned along the way of our webinar project...

Webinars are unlike standard PowerPoint presentations because they have a greater focus on interaction and discussion, and slides are encompassed with the webinar tools, making the screen more complex and wordy slides are ineffective. The presenter’s purpose will be undermined if slides reveal everything they have to say. Having too much information on slides may also inhibit free discussion to an extent because participants’ ideas can become too shaped around the content and less innovative or varied. Many of our slide revisions were around taking slides containing excessive information and turning them into activities so participants reached the same outcomes but were more involved and engaged with the presenter and other participants. Other revisions were around using images or key words to convey ideas, with presenters aided by slide notes with more detailed information. In other cases relating to application changes, we opted to share the application and talk with participants to define the depth of what was to be covered.

Tip: Keep words on slides to a minimum. If a slide contains a lot of information, ask yourself “how can we do this differently?” to create interesting and engaging content.

Marketing is in the air.

premium1 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:03:06 +0000

Anything that can’t be measured can never be improved! And that’s the basic problem of media in Pakistan. You can never get the accurate numbers not even regarding the reach of a particular media vehicle. Good news is that Marketing is now going wireless. Telecommunication is one of the largest growing sector of the economy of Pakistan and this is one area we can excel the most. According to PTA there are over 90 million mobile users in Pakistan. In last 4-5 years, cell phones have become an important part of the lives of the people of this country. Globally, Brands and Marketers are moving towards personalization of content and are into this revolutionary wireless medium. Now they are trying to take the brand message to the hands of the consumers.

Let’s see how companies all over the world are using this medium:
A two month mobile interactive ad campaign in Italy has resulted in a 9% increase in sales for Dunkin Donuts. As a result of an SMS-based marketing campaign, customers were able to get coupons for Dunkin Donuts goods by using their mobile handsets to respond to advertisements displayed on store notice boards, billboards and on the radio.

By sending a short message to the published numbers, users receive an immediate reply featuring a free gift coupon or special offer exchangeable at local outlets.

Trouble TV, a UK teen channel is using an SMS-based relationship marketing campaign. The campaign encourages viewers of Trouble TV and visitors to its web site (www.trouble.co.uk) to send in by text message, a promotional code that appears on screen every hour between 12pm and 5pm for a two-week period. Participants are entered into a daily draw, with prizes including mobile phones.

Petrol price monitoring group FuelWatch advertised an SMS competition to win $250 of free fuel on the back of delivery trucks. In 3 weeks 500 entries were received from just 10 trucks operating in Brisbane. In addition to the creation of a database, which can be used for further marketing, by asking respondents to enter a letter corresponding to the trucks regular route, the best routes could then be determined for future campaigns. Heightened awareness of the FuelWatch brand was also created as well as its website URL.

Nestle ran a "Grab. Gulp. Win!" promotion for Nesquik. Entry details were placed on 40 million bottles of ready-to-drink flavoured milk and milkshakes in the US, offering text-in giveaways ranging from a gaming house party to music downloads.

Lot more and unique mobile marketing ideas can be executed in Pakistan in fact some brands are already doing through Mobilius.com, the largest mobile marketing solution providers in Pakistan and I hope that our marketers start thinking about it before it gets all “houseful”.

Great Article from A List Apart

Dennis Deacon — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:51:45 +0000

As Jeffrey Zeldman's "A List Apart" celebrates it's 10 anniversary, the online publication shows once again that it is as relevant today as it was in the late '90's.

The most recent article supports this. "Understanding Progressive Enhancement" is a fantastic primer on the seperation of content, presentation and interactivity. It helps place the proper focus on how to layer when developing online content and experiences. Most invigorating is that this is the first in an upcoming series. Looking forward to more from author Aaron Gustafson.

How to use widgets to promote my business?

isabelsabadi — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:21:31 +0000

The next best thing in internet advertising is already here with widgets. Widgets, also known as gadgets, are embeddable chunks of code that can be implemented into any HTML coded site without any need for compiling from the end user. This means a lot of potential for creating intelligent, clever, and interactive widgets that could prove useful for many companies.

When you buy space for an ad on another website, you are paying for prime real estate, depending how valuable that website is. Now as to how you want to develop that space is up to you. Many companies take the tired and ineffective approach of filling up those valuable spaces with banner ads.

These ads are barely to completely non-interactive and the only people I can think of who would detract themselves from viewing their favorite site to click on banner ads are people with short attention spans.

Now I am not saying widgets are any better than banner ads, at least for the moment. Instead of capitalizing on this new technology to develop available ad space into something truly innovative and interactive, many companies have made gimmicky and half-baked attempts at interactivity. These include little, gimmicky games with monkeys and shooting inanimate objects, trivia puzzles, or some other meaningless and irrelevant distraction. Don´t get me wrong, I like to play these silly games from time to time, my favorite being a simplistic batting simulation on a baseball site or a full game of golf, but I never really spend time on the website I am redirected to.

I am just telling it like it is and just giving personal and professional opinion on how widgets can outperform traditional advertising. For example, why not use the ad space you bought and turn it into an extension of your website? Someone is basically letting you put your products, information, and content on their own site, like a little colony. Let´s maximize that colony to it´s full productive potential. A better way to explain this is, it´s not very intriguing for users to see a static billboard on a site and even less intriguing for them to click it and be redirected to another site. And no, the advent of browser tabs will not save traditional banner ads. My idea for widget ads would be to not even make them ads.

You could put your website in miniature form and put it on another site. The end user can then look around in your site, personalize and customize orders, and purchase what they want to right from that little widget ad.

Doesn´t that sound a million times better than static banner ads option who nobody really pays attention to and click throught is only "by mistake"?

Presidential Debate Part 3: The Townhall-Meeting

thehuntingclub — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:32:02 +0000

Elmo: And we are at it again. Tonight will be the third presidential TV debate. After the vice-presidential debate last Thursday we are back with the Democrats Barack Obama against the GOP's John McCain. What's special about tonight's debate is the format. It won't be a traditional debate as we have seen in the last two but a format called Townhall-Meeting. The audition and the viewers can ask the candidates questions, this means there will be some kind of interactivity.
Barack Obama is a slight favorite due to his outstanding rhetoric repertoire but as I heard Senator McCain is really good at this style of debate.
Place of happening will be Nashville, Tennessee. The host is NBC's Tom Brokaw and tip off will be 3:00 P.M.

Stay tuned for the traditional wrap up tomorrow.

Cats, computers and caring communities

Tara — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:31:43 +0000

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THE thought of a virtual community may cause some people to think of geeky nerds sitting all alone playing computer games, like Second Life (which is just one form of a virtual community). But this geek is probably interacting with more people than you do on a night out on the town.

The truth is... if you email other people, you are also part of an online or virtual community.

Email is one way that people use social networks to keep in contact with others they know in 'real life' and they use online services as a platform to communicate with them.

The thing that makes people confused about virtual communities, is the word "community" which they associate with geographically bound groups of people. Virtual communities, on the other hand, view community as a form of social networks. These are usually formed around areas of interest and give people a sense of social identity.

Supportive socialites

Many internet users are active consumers of online communities. They are groups of like-minded people who interact with each other using the internet. These can be social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace. These communities can be online dating sites, chatrooms, gaming sites (like SecondLife ) and can even be support groups.

Dystopians think that these virtual communities cause people to lose contact with their local reality, lead to alienation and believe interaction with the 'outside world' diminishes. They view these activities as individualistic, however there is a great deal of interactivity. Users are able to chat to others all over the world and form new communities with shared interests.

Virtual communities offer users many-to-many information exchange, as well as social support.

"The fact that people are not interacting in visible public spaces does not mean that they are in isolation. They may be going online to create new online worlds, using instant messaging to chat with old and new friends, visiting online communities, or playing multi-user games."

(Wellman, 2001).

Pet lovers Anonymous, Anyone?

I am an avid Facebook user and get withdrawal from going more than a day without checking the site. But I recently discovered a new form of virtual communities- the online support group.

Support groups are as varied as there are different types of people in the world. There are support groups for elderly people such as SeniorNet, as well as cancer patient support groups, all of which have the intention of bringing people together and providing them with support.

My cat of 13 years died recently of renal failure and I was shocked by how hard his death hit me. Whenever I talked to friends, they were supportive, but they didn't really know what I had been through. I landed up turning to a support group on the internet, and found that there were people who genuinely empathised and understood my sense of loss.

Before this I had always thought that people should talk to friends and family for help or support, but having a virtual community that understands your exact shared concerns and interests, is very liberating and incredibly helpful.

Although a 'cat renal failure support group' may seem humourous to some, I found the support and understanding I needed, from people I had never met, half across the world.

Feel the love

Here are some (edited) general comments that I received:

aawww that poor cat. so sorry for you loss ♥
OMG that's so sad... makes me tear up just thinking about it.
So sorry to hear about your kitty, that's so sad *cry* :(

Johnny Lee adaptation of the wii remote

philbeards — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:23:31 +0000

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

Design of ciberbusiness

forachance — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:48:24 +0000

Good morning friends,

Taking the first coffee of the morning, I reflected on the importance of creativity in your site, the art of achieving an attractive visual of the page web, since the Internet is a medium where the surfer can change easily from page in a second with a single “click”.

The creativity on the Internet is important, companies are becoming more aware of the importance of caring and develop its website. You should feel comfortable, to enjoy and to find what you expect. So are as important content, such as navigation and interactivity.

Some companies choose for the creativity of colors, music, others to create a story around the brand or image, others for interactive content (spaces multimedia, games, etc.) others creative winks etc..

The art of creating designs websites attractive and comfortable lead you to achieve greater success.

“The art of creating designs websites attractive and comfortable lead you to achieve greater success”

Best regards,

Mireya Garcia

The Krakatoa Chronicle will give you what you want

jecamig — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:15:40 +0000

Imagine:

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You are sitting in front of your computer screen searching for your dose of the daily news. Your

favorite website welcomes you and without further delay it delivers several headlines. All of them pertain to your interest. No sign of to you unimportant Super Bowl final updates, latest hurricane in the Caribbean area, or Congressional debate over the national budget. You quickly read through the news and close your favorite news website until tomorrow when it will be again ready to deliver you the information that are tailored just to your taste.

Rather futuristic view, but a very close situation is not too far from happening.

I am not talking about Google, or a device you should carry around with you. I am talking about The Krakatoa Chronicles. I just recently read an article about this online newspapers, which achieves high level of personalization. As a matter of fact The Krakatoa Chronicle is

a highly interactive,personalized newspaper on the World Wide Web (WWW). It is intended for Java−aware WWW browsers such as HotJava, and is architecturally quite different from conventional web−based newspapers. Its high interactivity and powerful personalization are the result of sending an interactive agent along with the text of the newspaper to function within the user’s web−browser. The agent uses the network connection to the WWW server site to fetch resources dynamically and for updating the user’s personal profile through relevance feedback.

In simple words, as this graph from that article shows, you are creator of the content. Isn't this what we always wanted? No unnecessary information and no agenda setting.

To me it is a tempting trap. The readers need a journalist to give them not only what they want but also NEED to know. Otherwise, we will be lost in this universe of information and news that we are bombarded with every day. Not to mention that it is not healthy to be locked in our own world and interests.

I was unsuccessfully trying to find out whether any newspapers or online news service uses this model, and my conclusion (please correct me if i am wrong) is that the Krakatoa Chronicles is currently just an experiment. All credits to the authors, but I wish this experiment doesn't become part of new media and journalism.

>Hur är du?

Patrick Selliers — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:12:58 +0000

Jobzonen, sannolikt danmarks största arbetsförmedling, har intresserat sig för att engagera arbetssökanden på ett nytt sätt. Egentligen har de gått ett steg längre än så. Personlighetstester av typen Myers-Briggs, Belbin, DISC i all ära - det här är ett aktuellt exempel på interaktiv marknadsföring.

Så här har man tänkt. Det är möjligt att lämna kommentarer...

The multimedia report

Pérez Martínez, V — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:15:40 +0000

The research belongs to the studies about the message and it is linked to the researches carried out at the Faculty of Communication at the University of La Habana, especially those regarding the “cyberjournalistic” genres area faced with the impact of information and communication technologies. Moreover, it approaches the multimedia report as a genre of current digital journalism, based on the analysis of the formal and content features of the traditional report and its possible modifications to fit the features of the communication on the net, that distinguish journalism for and by means of Internet, namely “hypertextuality”, “multimediality”, interactivity.

Liliam Marrero Santana published in the "Revista Latina de Comunicación Social" the article: The multimedia report as a genre of current digital journalism. [Full article]

Jensen on Interactivity

Alejandro Giacometti — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:28:03 +0000

Jensen takes us in an exploratory journey to once and for all define interactivity. With some not-so-subtle reservations about the concept, he surveys how the major disciplines concerned with interactivity have defined the concept and applied it to their own research. He maintains that the term interactivity has been borrowed from a straight forward sociological concept to denote significantly different enterprises in an array of disciplines. Each taking a slight variation of what they like, and what they understand, to build an abstraction of their own. This new abstraction may be useful and consequential in their studies, but has reduced the original concept of interactivity to a generalized undefinable idea. He quotes Sheizaf Rafaeli to illustrate this point, "Interactivity is a widely used term with an intuitive appeal, bit it is an underdefined concept. As a way of thinking about communication, it has high face validity, but only narrowly based explication, little consensus on meaning, and only recently emerging empirical verification of actual role." The purpose of this article, then is to find a consensus, a kernel of meaning, in this wildly misused and poorly understood notion of interactive communication and interactivity.
He starts by setting a model for communication that is simple and generally agreed upon, and divides communication into four categories involving information providers, and information consumers. According to who is in control of the information distribution and production the categories are: transmission, like radio and TV; consultation, as in FTP, or an encyclopedia; registration, as in government surveillance (wink), and logging software; and conversation, like e-mail and instant messenger. Soon we discover that this model is quite inappropriate for discussing interactivity, as it would reduce interactive communication to conversation. Jensen wishes to arrive to a consensus in defining interactivity, not excluding everyone who doesn't fit a rigid model.
Jensen decides that investigating the concept in the three major disciplines involved to 'trace' the evolution and use of the term is the way to find what we really mean by it. He starts with sociology, which offers a simple and sensible understanding of interaction; "a relationship between two or more people who in a given situation, mutually adapt their behaviour and actions to each other.
He continues with communication and media studies, in what apparently is the most disagreeable or counterintuitive model. They hold that interaction occurs between a person and a book, for example, when the meaning of the book changes as the reader analyses it, and the reader is then affected by this new meaning. The book, in this case exists as a negotiation between the reader's interpretation, and the author's intention. Short of mocking communication studies, as in Soviet Russia, where the book reads you, Jensen is quickly to disregard this relationship for its lack of observable reciprocity. He then overviews other trends in communication studies, which take into account the direct and indirect interaction between audiences of a TV show, or a theatre piece. There are a few models in here, but they all levitate around this idea of a inter-audience communication and reciprocity, some better than others.
The third discipline is informatics, where interaction is characterized as the relationship between a person and a machine. He makes a point of differentiating between interaction between people that is mediated by a machine, and interaction that is directly performed with a machine. This occurs, where a computer, for example, through some sort of process reacts at the user's request, and changes its further operation. The user, in a similar way, adjusts his own behaviour as a consequence of the information provided by the computer.
We see that there are conventionally four ways in which we can think of interaction: person to person, person to message, audience to audience and person to machine. Of course, the disregard of the initial cultural studies concept of interaction between person and message, make it really difficult to accept an interaction between person and machine. Unless we want to disregard interaction as the simple chore of pushing the right buttons to access the information that we need. We would then accept that the machine is just a facilitating tool to arrive at this information which is too difficult, or too time consuming to sort out manually.
How can we define interactivity then, so as not to exclude interactive communication between a person and a machine, or a person and a message. We have noted that they are established forms of interaction, and we cannot, nor we want to, disregard them lightly. Jensen argues that defining interactivity through prototypes, or examples is likely to give us a definition that is prone to obsolescence, and it does not provide us with guidelines for the future. We would be waiting for an unknown authority to classify an activity as interactive without having pointers to its reasoning. A definition through criteria, on the other hand, will give us an exact definition, but a very categorical one. It will necessarily exclude some kinds of communication, and to avoid being obsolete, it will be very vague.
Jensen provides, however an array of models for defining interactivity as a continuum. He enjoys the versatility of finding the appropriate dimensions in which to track interactivity. Not only can we arrive to a more comprehensive understanding of interactivity, but we can judge how it is being put to practice. We can evaluate forms of communication that are already considered interactive, as well as ones that are not.
Jensen presents various models of one, two, three, and even more dimensions to evaluate interactivity. Perhaps the most notable are E.M. Rogers' one dimensional scale, J. Steuer's two dimensional classification, and Brenda Laurel's 3-dimensional Continuum. Roger's scale tracks high and low interactivity in each side of the scale, posting some examples in the middle. This model is very subjective and does not provide many indicators for its use. Steuer's model is more complex, it places interactivity and vividness in two axis. Laure's model is probably the most complex of this three, but arguably the most useful, still being coherent and comprehensible. It plots Range, the degree to which one can make changes; Frequency, the incidence at which we can make the changes, and Significance, the degree of our ability to affect the final outcome. This three models and others outlined, present us with the possibility of guiding our assessment of the technology, and exploring interactivity itself.
Based on this survey of models for tracing interactivity, Jensen makes a distinction between the faculty to changing the message, and the faculty to change the method of communication. "Interactivity may be defined as: a measure of a media's potential ability to let the user exert an influence on the content and/or form of the mediated communication." Likewise, he reconciles the original communication model with interactivity in different levels, by adding his two measures of interactivity to the model. Jensens' model, the Cube of interactivity, organizes interactivity in Transmissional interactivity, Consultational interactivity, Conversational interactivity and Registrational interactivity.
With determination , Jensen investigated interactivity, its evolution, and to arrived to what he calls, a "contemporary attempt at synthesizing a conceptual construction". He may not come to the definite elucidation on interactivity, but provides an extremely simple, and comprehensible guide to its complexity.

Stop the Pre! Do the Post! The moderation issue in social media campaigns

tbuesing — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:12:50 +0000

This post continues my glance at NAB's opportunity drawings. Coming from tonight's Creative Showcase presentation I took home a good dose of moderation-mantra: Stop the Pre! Do the Post! Move your online campaigning from pre- to post-moderation. Amnesia's Iain McDonald presented Smirnoff Experience's Secret Party campaign which proves the value of guiding rather than controlling a campaign from within a social network (in this instance a facebook group).

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Potential party goers went into the group with an expectation of instant interactivity, free commenting and constant replies, and were served accordingly by the brand and their peers. GPS gaming, videos and social interactions were all tightly interwoven. All the while, users were behaving responsibly, and dealing with eachother in appropriate ways. Successful ticket hunters were proudly showing off their trophies and one example of self moderation included the online crowd petitioning ebay to take down (unfair?) party ticket auctions.

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To me the evidence is clear that offering a social group interesting stuff always needs a post moderation approach (of comments, posts, interactions) to be successful. It is something we have approached similarly on Toohey's For The Love Of Beer campaign.

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I reckon it is something that instinctively everyone (even a lawyer) knows: write something, see your own post, respond to banter, pass it on... all of this relies on instant gratification to be rewarding and keep momentum. Users see it happen and work beautifully on most of the web, on a daily basis and especially in social networks. So they don't tolerate legal bottlenecks and content wormholes. Who would seriously and continuously bother if every contribution goes into moderation first?

Reading List

Alejandro Giacometti — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:59:23 +0000

What is Interactivity

Week 1
Heeter, C. (2000). "Interactivity in the Context of Designed Experiences." Journal of Interactive Advertising. 1(1).
Jensen, J. F. (1998). "'Interactivity'--Tracking a New Concept in Media and Communication Studies." Nordicom Review 1.
Rockwell, G. (2002). Turing's Reaction: Dialogue as a model for interactivity in multimedia. MITH.
Crawford, Chris. Chris Crawford on Game Design. 2003.
brand, stewart - MIT media lab

Electronic Literary Theory

Week 2
Aarseth, E. (1997). Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. JHU Press.
Hayles, N. Katherine. Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary. University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. (a chapter)
Danielewski, Mark Z. House of Leaves. 2000. ( a chapter)
-- aarseth on interactive

Play

Week 3
Sinclair, Stéfan, “ComputerAssisted Reading: Reconceiving Text Analysis.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 18, no. 2 (June 2003): 175-184.
Caillois, Roger, and Meyer Barash. Man, Play, and Games. 2001. (a chapter)

Huizinga, J. (2000). Homo ludens [electronic resource] : A study of play-element in culture. London: Routledge.Games

Week 4
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1975). Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: The Experience of Play in Work and Games. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publishers. (chapters 1 to 4 are relevant, maybe 1 and 2)
Geirland, J. (1996). Go With The Flow. Wired Magazine. Issue 4.09.
-- improvization -

Design

Week 5
Schön, D. A. (1983). The reflective practitioner: how professionals think in action. New York, Basic Books. .
Simon, H. A. (1969). The Science of Design: Creating the Artificial. The Sciences of the Artificial. London, M.I.T. Press: 55-83.
Wakkary, R. (2005) "Framing Complexity, Design and Experience: A Reflective Analysis." Digital Creativity 16(2), pp. 65–78.

Metaphors

Week 6
Sless, David, In Search of Semiotics. (1986). (a chapter)
Alexander, Christopher. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. New York, 1977. ( a chapter)
alexander - oopsala paper on OO - process

Interactivity with HTML5

caff3inated — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:00:19 +0000

Flash has long been almost the sole thing associated with interactive content on the web. Things are slowly changing over the last few years with the sophistication of AJAX, CSS, Javascript, etc. Many multimedia and interactive content no longer relies on Flash or the more recently developed SilverLight.

HTML5 is a good example of the big step towards interactive, powerful web content. The idea HTML5 presents is web as a full platform for everything an user do on the computer, creating rich, flexible, and fully interactive media. This drastic shift in the very essence of web paves way for web designers today to develop and create change in more ways than ever before.

Assumption

yoonco — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:05:00 +0000

We can understand people are not dead because we can see, hear, touch, smell them. Then, they usually react.

- Five Senses
- Interactive Communication
- Connections
- Memories

In my case, I might only have some connections and memories of my brother. I do not have five sences and interactive communication. Thus, I can assume that I can't accept his death because of my memories and connection.

Aquatic Ecosystem, Interactivity of Dissolved Organic Matter

ebookscience — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:44:17 +0000

Editors : Stuart EG Findlay, Robert L Sinsaubaugh

Publisher : Academic Press (2003)

Size : 5,865 mb

Delivery cost : Rp. 10.000,-

Pesan ebook-ebook yang anda inginkan ke ebookscience@yahoo.com (email dan yahoo massanger) atau sms ke 087861329396.

Kami akan segera mengirimkan pesanan anda ke email anda, setelah anda mentransfer biaya pengiriman ke no rekening 0028890784 (Bank BNI) . Untuk mempermudah kami dalam mengidentifikasi pesanan anda, kami anjurkan anda untuk mentransfer dalam jumlah yang unik, contohnya Rp. 50.300,-

Untuk mempercepat pengiriman pesanan anda, segeralah sms/email kami, setelah melakukan transfer.

Salam

Edo

NAB: It is an opportunity

tbuesing — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:11:19 +0000

Last night I was judging on the latest round of Creative Showcase submissions. Since on this particular night I suspect there were mostly judges on the sites, I cannot help but thinking that UGC always brings out the best in us. Please note the cloud at the right top.

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I really like the concept (go to the "NAB community" website here), and I am sure NAB can chuckle about this (right?), and I am wondering what other ways (image recognition, manual screening, user flagging, NASA tools) one could use to automate the decency/brand fit of what goes on. Any ideas?

Added information:
I testify I was NOT involved in that doodle except for taking a screenshot. And if I did feel the urge for male genital depiction, I would go to Poke's awesome Cock-A-Doodle .

Added information 2:
I now understand that the app erases all graphics after a certain amount of time.