10 Downing St responds to an online petition in favour of making Jeremy Clarkson Prime Minister, signed by cira 50,000 people via YouTube:
Not exactly knee-slapping funny, but what do you expect? This is the PMO….
Very Al Goresq…. but in a good way:
I am a massive field hockey fan. Hockey took up a major part of my life as a teenager and I was really pleased to start playing again this year for the LSE.
Following a sport with the niche appeal of field hockey is a bit of a labour of love most of the time. Most […]
I can’t decide whether this is unfair (anyone can be edited to sound like an idiot) or a legitimate issue for debate on the election trail, but Talking Points Memo’s “McCain Dazed and Confused” video has been generating a fair bit of buzz in the blogosphere:
You can argue about whether or not implying that McCain […]
I finally got around to watching Prof Wesch’s latest missive yesterday (at 55 mins I needed to diarise some time for it!).
Like his previous pieces it is amazing. Do yourself a favour etc.
The world’s most influential Professor of Digital Anthropology, Michael Wesch has a new lecture video online called “A Portal to Media Literacy”:
Basically it’s an extension of his ‘A Vision of Students Today’ video that describes the limitations of current educational paradigms (and therefore institutions) and the potential for Web 2.0 tools to radically change these […]
I’ve been having quite a high-brow period recently pondering the Rebooting Democracy themes and doing some grunt work on my dissertation…… which caused me to miss this bone crunching US attack ad:
Yep, it doesn’t get much cheaper than a Sopranos themed attack ad against an Italian politician.
Ouch.
HT: Wonkette
An interesting post from my favourite digital ethnographer, Prof Michael Wesch:
“It’s not about producing for a mass, but building a critical mass.”
For a video to go viral it has to do more than just passively entertain. It has to co-opt the viewer into *wanting* to spread it. The key then is to look […]
Late on Day Two there was a break out session on “Mastering The New World of Online Political Video” hosted by Joshua Micah Marshall (of Talking Points Memo, or more specifically in this context TPMtv), Robert Greenwald (Of Outfoxed and BraveNewFilms fame), Matthew Sheffield (of Newsbusted) and Steve Grove (Youtube).
The moderator, Steve Grove has summarised […]
McCain is McSame as Bush:
HT: Brad DeLong