Why are we podcasting instead of using text?

Tom Scotney just put up an interesting blog post questioning the usefulness of the video and audio that we’ve been putting online.
We’re in the airport and thought that the appropriate way to respond would be to record a short discussion about why we’re using this stuff at SXSWi.

 
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From “Gold Rush” to “Good Rush” - Social Media gets ethical in 2008

If 2007 was the year of the “Social Media Gold Rush”, 2008 is the year of the “Social Media Good Rush”.
(Photo: “To the Good Rush“, signed by Frank Warren)
At SXSW Interactive 2007 the hot topic was how to ‘monetize’ social networks - it was all about how to make sustainable business models around systems [...]

 
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Fray Cafe

Baratunde R Thurston, Web Editor of The Onion

Ewan Spence

Outside the venue.

The guy who invented the term ‘blogosphere’ apparently.

 
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A great conversation with Shawn Morton from Profilactic

I’m not alone in thinking that Profilactic could be one of the big stories of 2008 -  a service that lets you aggregate and manage all of the various feeds of information that you publish as a person and have them pulled together into a ‘lifestream’.
Here we talk about the idea behind the service and [...]

 
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Dorking at Dorkbot

We went to the fantastic Dorkbot party and met up with the organisers. Something to bring to the UK?

Pete loved the robots. I loved the interactive visual feedback loop Eric Archer had made. It was good:

This image is entirely produced without digital graphics input. It’s a camera feeding back on itself connected to a modified [...]

 
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