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Canadian Blogger Shut Down

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:52:25 GMT

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Yulblogger, podcaster, ilesansfiler, and art gallery/space guy Chris Hand, aka Zeke, has had his blog shut down by a court injunction.

The Montreal and Canadian blogging, free speech, rational people communities ought to be up in arms. I urge everyone to at least write about this to get this info out. It’s a real danger to all of us who write what we think online.

Those who know Zeke know he’s loud, opinionated and something of a loose cannon. He’s also a stalwart of Montreal’s blogging/podcasting/art/arts scene, and a good guy.

how do you, as a reader of blogs and citizen of Canada and Quebec, feel about freedom of speech in your country?

Chris, what can we do to help?

Tags: zeke, chrishand, montreal, blog, blogger, canada

Social media and new media are not the same

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:34:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.christopherspenn.com

In the new media space, we use a lot of terms fairly confusingly:

Old media
Broadcast media
Mainstream media
New media
Social media
Personal media
Citizen journalism
Citizen media

Social media is the opposite - it’s media that REQUIRES the participation of others. Twitter, for example, would never have existed without other users in the network. PodCamp as a conference would never have existed if it was only one person who showed up. Take any of the social networks, remove the people, and you have something not useful at all.

How far will the border security go!?!

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:16:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: So you have to give them your username and password to access your computer and there looking at data on the laptop and mentioned data accessed from the laptop, VPN’s and such, so do you have to give them a VPN password? This seam like it’s going a little far, I can access any of my information, I keep a lot in the cloud, so they can force me to allow them access because I brought a computer. What if I bring a clean machine with NO data, not even a browser history? Then whats next, I have to register my passwords at the border when I’m not even bringing a computer? Because I can get to my info from any net connected PC!

Clip Source: yro.slashdot.org

With the recent attention to the DHS's draconian policy on laptop searches at borders, a blog post by Steven Bellovin from last month is worth wider discussion. Bellovin extrapolates from the DHS border policy on physical electronic devices and asks why authorities wouldn't push to extend it to electronic data transfers. "...it would seem to make little difference if the information is 'imported' into the US via a physical laptop or via a VPN, or for that matter by a Web connection. The right to search a laptop for information, then, is equivalent to the right to tap any and all international connections, without a warrant or probable cause. (More precisely, one always has a constitutional protection against 'unreasonable' search and seizure; the issue is what the definition of 'unreasonable' is.)"

The economics of gasoline protests

Fri, 11 May 2007 20:58:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I agree with this but I think the real solution is hydrogen powered cars!

Clip Source: www.financialaidpodcast.com

The economics of gasoline protests

I thought I’d take a moment to point out, since I’ve gotten a bazillion IMs and emails about it, that the proposed boycott of gasoline pumps on May 15th makes absolutely ZERO economic sense, nor will it have any impact on pump prices.

Deferring a gasoline purchase on one day simply pushes demand to the subsequent days, because unless you stop or decrease your driving, your gasoline consumption will not change in aggregate, and therefore neither will the price of gasoline.

Want to do something EFFECTIVE on May 15th? Want to make gasoline prices CHANGE? Do these two things:

First, inflate your tires to the maximum safe pressure recommended by the vehicle manufacturer. For my car, for example, this is 38 psi. The dealership sets the tires at 28 psi because it gives the perception of a smoother ride at the cost of more fuel

Tags: christopherpenn, gasoline, gas, price, protest

Clip to Twitter

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:01:49 GMT

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Clip Source: deys.ca

So I love using Clipmarks and I am just addicted to Twitter and I wanted a way for my “clips” to be posted to twitter

I Im’d Eric Skiff anyways to let him know and he confirmed that they had bee talking about it but he also reminded me of another way that this can be accomplished. Clipmarks generates an RSS feed for just about any list on their site, your clips, your pops, your clippers clips, you get the point. You can of course grab the feed for which ever page you want and use TwitterFeed to publish that to your Twitter page. Now in a case where you have multiple twitter accounts for different purposes, I have my personal account and one from BlogLDN, you can take advantage of Clipmarks tags and use the feed for that tag to post and because TwitterFeed uses a different login for each feed you give it there is no end to the number of combinations you can use. Thanks to Eric for pointing that out and the guys at Clipmarks and Twitter for the services!

Tags: clipmarks, twitter, rss, ericskiff, twitterfeed

“Vodka Is Pretty Much The Same No Matter What Brand You Buy”

Mon, 26 May 2008 17:34:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Total BS, I agree if you get “vaule brands” (Absolute, etc) they are all the same and the high end stuff is close to each other in comparison but I can tell an absolute from a grey goose from a Chopin (BEST) and potato vodka is the only way to go! In my opinionthere is three tiers of vodka. Normal Vodka (Absolute, etc,) for mixing with anything, High End (Grey Goose, Ketel One, etc,) I’d hate to mix it but I won’t hurt ya if you do, and High Quality Potato Vodka (Chopin, etc) that should never be mixed with anything but pure filtered ice!

Clip Source: consumerist.com

In what may have been the most awesome blind taste test ever, a BusinessWeek writer served his friends chilled shots of various brands of vodka to see whether there was any noticeable difference in taste. His argument was that vodka is a neutral spirit and by definition is nearly indistinguishable from one brand to the next—and that consequently the "brand story" (including country of origin) is really all that separates a Grey Goose drinker from a Ketel One alkie. To test this, he asked his subjects to pick their favorite brands from shots and mixed drinks.

It turns out, no one could really tell one vodka from the other—there was one successful pick, but it wasn't repeatable. (Probably because the subjects were all half-drunk by that point.)

Tags: vodka

Will podcasters step up to help their own economy?

Thu, 31 May 2007 12:06:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Podcasters need to read this article.

Clip Source: www.ericrice.com

When Joe and Jane Q. Public fire up the iTunes music store, they are presented with quite a bit of stuff to buy. Music. Videos. Movies. Games. TV Shows– many by individual content, and others by series (album). Everything but the lonely podcast.

I have my theories. One of which, is the harmful nature of an echo chamber. Ask a podcaster about paying for a podcast, and they might say ‘no’–check that, they might say ‘NO’. And herein lies the problem. The Chamber of Echoes.

Why?

In so many words, I was chatting it up with someone from Apple–someone who certainly sees the irony that yes, you can in fact, buy a lot of stuff at the iTunes store, both by episode or by series, a model very similar to how most podcasters release their content. I was told in no uncertain terms, that functionality to sell podcasts in the music store, might come to fruition if podcasters made a huge amount of noise.

Tags: ericrice, spin, podcast

Linked In v. Facebook

Tue, 08 May 2007 12:54:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I like both service but I personally have found Linked In far more confusing and to have to pay for it sucks as I don't see a lot of value in it for me.

Clip Source: valleywag.com

It's assumed that Facebook's main rival is Myspace. Facebook, with 23m unique visitors in the US in April, according to Comscore, is the only social network that comes within spitting distance of Myspace's 67m. And both gigantic sites took off when adopted by young audiences, Myspace by music fans, and Facebook by college students. But Facebook's immediate challenge is not to Myspace, but to another social network, which might surprise you: Linked In.

Tags: facebook, linkedin

Podcast Demographics

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:58:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Always right on the mark!

Clip Source: www.christopherspenn.com

I don’t care about podcast demographics and neither should you

Okay, that’s not strictly true, but it is true that podcast demographics aren’t terribly important to me. Why? Because this is new media, not broadcast media. What’s the difference?

In broadcast media, you send out a message to your target audience and hope there’s enough relevant people in that database that some of them take action and buy your product or service

In new media, you send out a message to people who want to hear from you. Not only do they want to hear from you, they want to talk to you and each other, and if you do your job well as a new media creator, they’ll want to talk to lots of other people about your media

Everyone is connected.

a positive mention of your show could instantly add 10% more audience to your own show. New media marketers understand this one fundamental tenet (which is also a Buddhist one):

Tags: chrispenn, christopherspenn, podcast, demographics

Lala on TV

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:52:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Guess I'm gonna have to start watching late night sunday CBC!

Clip Source: www.insidethecbc.com

CBC Television hires videoblog celebrity as late-night host

Vancouver actor Lara Doucette, known to thousands of Internet fans as “Lala” from the top-rated video podcast Tiki Bar TV will host CBC Television’s Exposure, which begins airing this summer.

Tags: tikibar, tikibartv, lala, latadoucette, cbc

GroupTweet Privacy Slip Up?

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:14:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Really how is this a privacy issue on the part of GroupTweet, maybe the new code should be there but making a big deal about it seams stupid. I've used the service and not had a problem, I didn't even fins the wording of the instructions an issue! Please people just be careful what you do online, and think twice before clicking.

Clip Source: www.techcrunch.com

GroupTweet is a service that let’s users send private Twitter messages to a group of other users. It’s works great, unless you screw up and accidentally enter your normal Twitter credentials into the site instead of the credentials for a new Twitter account you create for the service.

If you accidentally put in your normal Twitter credentials, the service took all of your private direct messages on Twitter and published them. Twitter user Orli Yakuel and others found this glitch the hard way, and suffered major embarrasement.

First of all, he disabled all existing accounts. He updated instructions to be more clear. And he also set up the service so that only brand new Twitter accounts can be used - so if you still accidentally put in your normal account, it will detect it and show an error. Finally, the service now only retrieves message for one day.

Tags: grouptweet, twitter, group

CoComment

Tue, 08 May 2007 13:53:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I found this over on Titus' blog (http://titusferguson.wordpress.com/) and it looks like a cool service. I'm going to give it a try.

Clip Source: www.cocomment.com

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Tags: cocomment, titusferguson

Twitterholic

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:39:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's cool to see who is in the top 100!

Clip Source: www.twitterholic.com

Our twittastic robots scan the Twitter public timeline for new ~~users~~ twits to watch. A few times a day, we calculate individual statistics for each ~~user~~ twit in our database.

Tags: twitter

The Right Tool for the Job

Mon, 28 May 2007 13:28:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is a great read for any one producing for the new media space! You have to think about what you audience should get out of the content and how to best convey your message!

Clip Source: grasshopperfactory.com

Text is Good for fast consumption of information. It’s great for reading news, lots of news. Want to try a test? Take your list of podcasts in audio or video form and tell me how much information you can parse through in 30 minutes. Now, try the same with your RSS reader. If you’re using a decent reader, I bet you’ll get MULTIPLES more of the text scanned, read, parsed, and processed. It’s great for lists. That’s why we don’t draw pictures of eggs.

The Right Tool for the Job

Audio is Good for information you want to absorb deeply.

Video is Good for visual information and/or for showing someone something you wish they could experience the way you’re experiencing it.

Video is for Showing

Audio is for Absorbing

Text is for Information

It’s Not Just One Format Any More

Tags: chrisbrogan, tool, tools, web, media, newmedia, audio, video

The New iPods

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:30:10 GMT

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Clip Source: deys.ca

I was watching the coverage of the Apple announcement today, for the record I looked at Gizmodo, Engaget and Ars Technica and I thought Gizmodo did the best job, and I couldn’t help but be underwhelmed. I like the new iPod touch but only 8 and 16GB?

The 160GB upgrade in the iPod Classic is cool but why not keep the older model for a price point in a hard drive model, which is likely why it isn’t gone, with little upgrade and make the iPod touch in both Flash and HD? I guess they want to keep something for a future release, perhaps something else before Christmas!

Don’t get me wrong about not liking anything the progress with the iPod Touch is great, WiFi store and Starbucks integration are cool, and it’s amazing that the WiFi store seams to be available in Canada on the launch, which I wasn’t expecting. Anyways that just my initial thoughts and I’ll probably have more to update later, but what so you think? Oh and you can now stream the announcement here.

Tags: apple, arstechnica, engaget, gizmodo, iphone, ipod, ipodclassic, ipodtouch, starbucks