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Using the Web to Discover Talent
A friend of mine who’s a prospective movie producer asked me to act as music supervisor for his (yet to be finished) diploma project. He needed some authentic country and 50s old school rock’n'roll for the soundtrack. Unfortunately there wouldn’t be a budget – and he would need the worldwide rights for an indefinite amount [...]
Posted in Jens Schroeder, Online, Social Media, germany, music Also tagged Facebook, Last.Fm, Soundtrack 1 Comment
Remember MySpace? Paris certainly does.
The last time I logged into my original MySpace account was so long ago that I can’t remember the email address I used to access it or the password. In Facebook-saturated Toronto, it’s easy to forget MySpace.
But out in the real world, MySpace is hugely important.
Well, if not hugely important, at least relevant. In a [...]
Facebook vs. Myspace
Despite all the hype around Facebook these days (it seems that The Globe and Mail carries at least two stories on it per day), TechCrunch reminds us that MySpace is still way, way ahead in the America market.
Their market share is declining, but still sits above 70%, and that’s nothing to sneeze it.
TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley [...]
Will Social Networks Impact The Election?
Todd Zeigler and the Bivings Report led me to an interesting post by Sanford Dickert on his Political Gastronomica site about “the seeming lack of impact social networks have truly had on the 2008 elections so far” (as Zeigler puts it).Discussing the question: Will social networks impact the 2008 presidential election, Dickert writes:
I was asked [...]
Posted in Facebook Also tagged 2008, blog campaigning, communication, measuring effects, MyRagan, social networking 1 Comment
ESA Gives Video Game Voters Network Website Overhaul, Could Use Some Humanizing
The Entertainment Software Association, representing the interests of of U.S. video game publishers, launched an updated website for its Video Games Voters Network in order to “increase the recruitment, education, and mobilization of video game players across the country.” The press release (via gamepolitics.com) explains:
The response to the VGVN is overwhelming and dramatic―over 100,000 members, [...]
Blog Campaigning: 3.3 Blogs in campaigns
3.3 Blogs in campaigns
Whilst political campaign blogs are only a few years of age, it is likely that politicians and campaign strategists started developing an interest in the medium in the beginning of the 21st century when a substantial online blog community rose to prominence in the United States (Bahnisch in Bruns & Jacobs [...]
Blog Campaigning: 5.3 How can we measure the impact of blogs?
5.3 How can we measure the impact of blogs?
During the period that the research took place, few bloggers, online communication experts or political commentators explicitly discussed technical aspects regarding how we actually can measure the impact of campaign blogs on political elections. The only reflection that explicitly dealt with this subject was produced by Todd [...]
Posted in Facebook Also tagged Alexa, espen's thesis, influential, Measring effects, successful, Technorati, The Bivings Report, Todd Zeigler 1 Comment
News Feed: YouTube and MySpace campaign for political positions
From LATimes.com:
The Internet battle over the presidential campaign is ratcheting up following announcements by social-networking site MySpace and video-sharing hub YouTube that they plan live webcasts of town hall meetings and candidate debates leading up to the primaries.
Continues:
In a measure of the growing significance of online politics, key executives from major Web companies — including [...]
Australian Polticians Utilising Myspace
The 51st state always lags behind a little bit. But now it has finally caught up. As The Age reports, various Australian Federal Government ministers and shadow ministers are to create MySpace profiles before the election in order to reach the alienated youth:
The site’s director of safety and security, Rod Nockles, said the project would [...]
The Evolving Music Video