My first digital camera, was a point-and-shoot which was small, beautiful, took decent pictures. As enticing as they were, I’ve never really turned to the Digital SLR cameras. Why? My logic was that if it’s too clunky, there’s a high chance I won’t be taking it out. In recent years, w...
Henry Jenkins is the director, Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. In this viral-info-snack he discusses the power of media in a 21 century trans-mediated world. A world where converging technologies and cultures give rise to a new media landscape. Thanks to the ever wise Cross-...
The realization of the Diffusion of Innovations theory might seem simple at first, but various other earlier works were critical in helping communication researchers arrive at it. The Two-Step Flow of Communication was a hypothesis that was under considerable examination. Elihu Katz (...
Today’s Links: iliketotallydiggthis Published on 2/27/2007 in DailyLinks . View Comments I just got my hands on the Archos 704, together with the DVR station and the Helmet Cam. There’s a product launch date of March 15th, after which I’d be allowed to post a full review. “Being John ...
Dr. Kevin Lim recently graduated with his PhD in Communication at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). Dabbling for both pragmatic and play, he seeks an ideal interplay between online and offline life, through social networking, blogging and lifecasting. He openly wishes to become a "soc...
Challenging notions of virtuality, Kevin’s transformation into a social cyborg has him constructing a modular multi-camera networked backpack. This unique backpack allows him to experiment with lifecasting as a physical embodiment of ambient presence to his online readers. The setup a...
this week, while most of them considered Twitter an online community, many considered it a weak one since it is neither instant messaging nor blogging (i.e. SMS word count limit). Many think that it holds potential to be greater if Twitter were to “fix” some of the issues they’ve high...
In our daily lives, we do our shopping at the usual stores, buy a meal at our favourite fast food chain or visit our usual watering holes. We are rewarded by being loyal customers and we know when and how to get things at a cheaper price. Turning our attention online to social network...
Ian sent me this photo of a bunch of “very literal” tissue paper packets. I’d like to credit the person who made this cultural artifact because it sums up one of the most uniquely Singaporean traits I’ve seen so far. Choping is a cultural phenomena where the locals have self-establish...
UPDATED: Click to enlarge screenshot of del.icio.us’ new layout with numbers to show where to click first Like most A-list bloggers, I like using this little trick to ensure I get get more daily posts on my blog. Instead of simply posting every cool link I find onto my blog (which wou...
is simply one of the sweetest places I’ve visited over the weekend, together with DJ Reiki, and her audio engineer buddy, EastCoastNinja. It was a quiet celebration between the three of us on the final cut of BreakinAsia’s breakbeat podcast. More on this in due time.
One way I explain this crowdsourcing idea to friends is by comparing World of Warcraft to Second Life. You pay a high subscription fee to Blizzard since they regularly produce new game content for you as you play, while in Second Life, it’s the residents who build and decide where to ...
Online Papers Modestly Boost Newspaper Readership PEW Research Center for The People and The Press showed how online newspapers are moderately gaining ground, while physical newspapers are significantly losing readers. Also, Americans are spending more time reading news from tradition...
Although when I talk about my experience and quote the piece from Wikipedia where it says ‘rock and roll by people who didn’t have very much skills as musicians but still felt the need to express themselves through music”, I do not in any way want to represent those identified as edup...
