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Sponsoring the World Cup? Nah, put Messi on YouTube
Online videos are part of everyone’s advertising strategies now, of course, but some, like Pepsi, are going for it big time. Luckily, it’s not all about the big fish. The minnows, and even the public sector, are still getting a look-in. This post offers a short meander on a trail of online advertising.
Haiku news from the European Parliament
This week, a group of journalists endeavoured to make a “news” experiment. They isolated themselves from the world’s traditional media (no radio, no television, no newspapers) and “produced” news having as unique sources of information “haiku” texts on Facebook and Twitter. To complicate things, they were not allowed to click on the links proposed in [...]
Twittering the hearings
Just a short post to draw attention to one of the more interesting aspects of the hearings of commissioners-designate, one which may mark an important change in the way EP political groups communicate.
I was fascinated to observe during the seven days of hearings we have already had, and presumably in the one more we are [...]
That was the year that was
One year ago. December 2008. I just remember being incredibly stressed out; and, remarkably, that Tibo was even more so. We were up against the deadline for signing the “online” contract with our agency. We maybe didn’t realise it at the time, but in that contract the shape of WebCom’s annus mirabilis could already be discerned.
Professional chatterboxes
Already thought by some of our colleagues to pass our working hours in ways that are not quite serious, we have just started a new line of work which will give them another stick to beat us with. Yes, we now – officially – spend our time chatting online.
Post-match analysis: Personal Democracy Forum in Barcelona
Conferences are like London buses. You go for ages without one showing up, then they all come along at once. Suffice it say that, thanks to an improbable number of internet/politics conferences in a very short period, I feel I am becoming something of a connaisseur of the genre.
Dublin Web Summit – post match analysis
Whither the web and new media? Whither politics and the new media? Whither commercial organizations and the new media? Did the Dublin Web Summit provide any answers to these questions. Or did it conclude we should go down the pub instead?
Surfing (other) European parliaments
“We should insist on the use of new technologies during elections in order to boost turnout. It is also time to open a debate on European political parties”: with his over 1100 Facebook friends and his 69 years, the president of the European Parliament has been already defined ‘the Facebook president’. His inagural speech inspired [...]
User-generated cyber-trash
There’s a grey zone of cyberspace cluttered with petabytes of irrelevant publicly available private content. Is social media making us waste time and in reality become anti-social?
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