December 2010
14 posts
Things read, to think about
Core principles of transmedia storytelling Site: What Consumes Me - Bud Caddell Thoughts about this: Transmedia storytelling becomes interesting once you stop thinking about it in terms of narrow storytelling (aka fiction, films, TV shows and so on) and start taking ‘storytelling’ as a fancy term for communication much more generally. Also: I am somewhat unconvinced about the...
Dec 29th
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“A novel is before all else a living being. The ideal novel is written in a...”
– Guardian | Writing at night
Dec 22nd
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 14th
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“The self is a tricky thing to accomplish. Who we are is signified by a seemingly...”
– Cyborgology blog - Identity Work and the Authentic Cyborg Self
Dec 9th
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“Zygmunt Bauman has famously conceptualized modern society as increasingly...”
– Cyborgology blog - Wikileaks and our liquid modernity @nathanjurgenson
Dec 9th
NYTimes | Can the Cellphone Help End Global... →
Jan Chipchase at Nokia —- For the last seven years, he has worked for the Finnish cellphone company Nokia as a “human-behavior researcher.” He’s also sometimes referred to as a “user…
Dec 2nd
Winners - Apps Africa →
Launched in July 2010, in Nairobi, Kenya by Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Judith McHale, Apps4Africa generated more than 20 entries from Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania….
Dec 1st
GroundTruth | txteagle | mobile crowdsourcing →
Unprecedented Emerging Market Intelligence Get game-changing insights from txteagle’s network of 2 billion people in over 80 emerging economies. The GroundTruth platform enables brand managers,…
Dec 1st
On Love and Hate for 160 characters →
I fear that focusing so much effort on development for the SMS platform by all stakeholders ranging from mobile phone manufacturers, network operators, NGOs and local entrepreneurs may stagnate the…
Dec 1st
Mobile phone data service for Kenyan fishermen →
Enhanced Fish Marketing Information Service (EFMIS) offers information to fishermen about the weather outlook, fish prices on different beaches and the amount of fish available on the beaches in an…
Dec 1st
Movirtu - telecoms for the bottom of the pyramid →
Movirtu’s MX series of patent pending products enables shared access to basic mobile phone services for people earning less than $2 a day. The series includes MXShare, which when installed in the…
Dec 1st
MIP: the Mobile Information Platform |... →
Technology connecting mobile SMS to mobile news & information services, especially the DatAgro project providing agricultural information to developing world farmers to help them optimise goods they…
Dec 1st