Let’s hope the medium is not the message

The video that should have been an article

Lecture video on Flickr by Andrew Feinberg licensed under Creative CommonsWhat motivates people in chosing media types to publish their content? Why, for example, produce a video on a topic which would be far better expressed in print?

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This post was written by @Drivelry on July 28, 2009

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How much damage can Twitter do to Google & bloggers?

Photo by carrotcreative from Flickr licensed under Creative Commons
An interesting article from Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineLand this week on tracking traffic into his website via Twitter.

In a nutshell (and he’d probably be horrified to see it oversimplified like this) he was pointing out that for one of his articles only about a sixth of the traffic it actually got from Twitter showed up in Google Analytics.

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This post was written by @Drivelry on June 26, 2009

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What is the new socially aspirational career?

Five years or so ago it was all so simple.

We had moved on from the doctor and lawyer aspirations that our parents had for us as children to lionize careers in banking and finance, but now bankers and financiers are lying gasping on the floor and the coroner is on the way.Photo by carveconsulting from Flickr licensed under Creative Commons

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This post was written by @Drivelry on June 4, 2009

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Anonymous online? Facebook, Blogs and Generation Y

Photo by sklathill - licensed under Creative Commons We all like to think of ourselves as plugged into the zeitgeist. The web? Was there in ’95. LinkedIn profile? Got one years ago? Skype? Tick. Blog? Tick (you’re looking at it). SecondLife? I’m there. 24 x 7 online gadgets? Got them in spades.

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This post was written by @Drivelry on May 10, 2009

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Baby boomers: guilt or selfishness? Leisureville and the geriatric generation

 My (late 20s) sister gets some flak about being part of generation Y. You know, that generation that has:-

 ‘an expectation that there will always be a job out there and that you should be able to get to the top job of any average organisation in under 2 years.’

Posted under Reviews, Self doubt, Unanswerable questions

This post was written by @Drivelry on March 19, 2009

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Review of “Stardust”, the 2007 film, with Claire Danes & Robert de Niro

There are few films you can see with a child which are immensely entertaining for adults as well. Released in 2007 I’d never heard of  ‘Stardust’ and seeing it last night think it is vastly underrated.

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This post was written by @Drivelry on February 6, 2009

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Do people ‘without sexual desire’ really exist?

Not to sound too Mlian-Kunderaish but it’s hard not to speculate about those ostensibly without sexual desire.Photo by sinabeet from Flickr licensed using Creative Commons
It’s not about success rate: many desire but few are chosen. It’s the question of whether some really have no desire at all (chemical castration and age issues aside) or whether there is some other explanation?

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This post was written by @Drivelry on January 18, 2009

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