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Web 2.0 in Under Five

For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, I hope you enjoy this short and thought provoking clip by Michael Wesch, who is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. In this, a short, clear, simple, and fast paced film, Professor Wesch elucidates for us[...]

Time Gets Web 2.0 Facelift

Time revamps its tired old site to better serve the interests of 2.0-savvy readers who’d rather sift through snarky blogs than stiff Reuters streams. The new site vibes like a cross between Yahoo, ZDNet and AdAge, which can be… Published by ScampContinue reading: Time Gets Web 2.0[...]

A Content Driver

Los Angeles writer, Mark Haskell Smith, cerated a serial novel–Black Sapphire Pearl–for Lexus. According to the Washington Post, he was paid “more than a modest book advance but less than what he would get for an episode of Grey’s Anatomy.” Call it a fictomercial, a literatisement, branded entertainment. Lexus doesn’t[...]

First Came Web 2.0. Now Come The Web 2.0 Dot Bombs

While social networking in all its forms has bred a lot of new websites, and media hype to go with it, the beginnings of a shakeout seem to be in order. On Wednesday, Seattle-based Jobster announced it was laying off 60 people — 40% of its staff. Jobster is a[...]

Content Droplets

I like Scott Karp’s take on disaggregation: All the focus on the digitization and online distribution of music — and now video — has been on piracy. But what if that’s just a red herring? You could argue that the most striking consequence of digitizing media and distributing it online is that[...]