Mark Fiore
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Animal Comment | Mark Fiore’s Animated Cartoon Site
Web 2.0 take from the animal world on current environmental issues. My favorite is the crab.
(tags: humor fun animation web2.0 comments environment)
On The Media
“High school history textbooks have long been the subject of controversy both within and between nations. Which is why they’re now [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was trying out the search widget Lijit on this site — not just for site search, but as a “me collector” (to aggregate all my [...]
Green.tv.
Ad don’t have to suck. Really. Watch this one.
Greenpeace PSA video: You Are My Sunshine
Advertising (including advocacy ads) does NOT have to suck! Check this out. If more ads were like this, people would avoid ads less.(tags: advertising content+strategy content+style fun video UK human+nature humor psychology influence)
YourStreet
Cool map-based service for geotagging news. Focuses on [...]
What Travelling The Globe Teaches You About Blogging | Location Independent
“3 simple lessons that I’ve learned from our travels that are helping me to become a better blogger. 1. Simple communication is everything. 2. People everywhere want the same things. 3. Building relationships and making friends enriches your life.”
(tags: blogging travel content+strategy communication connections world)
The [...]
Amy Gahran
Barcelona was fabulous, especially the living statues. Now it’s back to real life. (Cringe!)
I’ve just returned from a 2-week trip that mixed business, vacation, and family. It was quite a whirlwind, but it was also fun, exciting, and important in many ways. While I was gone I was able to keep E-Media Tidbits going, [...]
Dont Confuse Us - A Digital Marketing Resource: Is Twittering Micro Blogging, Texting on Speed or Just for People with Nothing Better to do?
“It seems Twitter does have value at the moment. Marshall mentions ‘ambient intimacy’ and ‘persistent social intelligence’ to try and define the connections, I’m not sure its fully clear yet, but this [...]
Just a quick update — I’m greatly enjoying my brief vacation in Barcelona. Last night a friend and I enjoyed tapas, tempranillo, and an AWESOME flamenco fusion trio in the courtyard of a Catalonian cafe. Here are some photos I took in Barcelona and at the seaside town of Vilanova i la Geltru.
However, my Macbook [...]
Steve Outing » Not just like being in Barcelona
Steve Outing wasn’t too pleased with his experience appearing by remote at the Barcelona online journalism seminar yesterday.
(tags: events friends world conferences virtual+meetings)
Following on Steve Outing’s Tidbits post about using Twitter to cover breaking news…
Right now I’m attending the second day of the Seminari Internacional de Periodisme Digital, held at the chic modern Neapolis center at Vilanova i la Geltru, on the Spanish coast of the Mediterranean. I’m posting highlights from my notes via Twitter. If [...]
Chapati Mystery » Emergency Telegraph
“From students and activists in Pakistan comes The Emergency Telegraph [pdf link] - the first issue of a comprehensive booklet that hopes to fill in the vacuum created by the media blackout in Pakistan”.
(tags: Pakistan emergencies censorship citizen+journalism security privacy world)
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