Australian social media expert Gary Hayes has put together a neat flash app that shows the growing number of blog posts, tweets, YouTube videos and more being posted every second, in real time before your very eyes.
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How social media can score you your next job
Time was that your Facebook addiction could get you fired — these days, HR folk are all over social media sites, scouring for web-savvy employees. TechRadar explain how you can use services like Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube to score your next big break.
Would you pay Murdoch for articles like this…?
“Drunkest man ever tries to buy booze” is apparently what News Ltd’s Adelaide Now believes is news. Is this what Rupert Murdoch means when he talks about his engaging, original content? asks Ben Shepherd.
US spies buy a stake in social media
America’s spy agencies are pumping money into a software firm that specialises in monitoring blogs and social media services like Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. So what do they want with our tweets and twitpics?
YouTube might actually make some money
Media companies are finally realising that their attempts to keep their content off YouTube are futile, and are now putting videos up themselves, allowing the video site to sell ads along with them and gasp! potentially earn some actual money.
Online critics are secret softies
The internet is often seen as an open forum for hyper-critical and nasty opinions, but it turns out that online critics are all bark and no bite: the average rating on sites like YouTube is 4.3 stars out of 5, and overly gushy appraisals abound.
Click the vote: politics 2.0
Can an open source government work? An electorate in NSW has $300,000 and an online public vote system for choosing which local programs get funded. Want a new oval? Get voting.
VIDEO: Who is the Aussie Youtuber?
YouTube Australia has released its latest user research as a YouTube video (see what they did there?). So just who’s watching? You.
9/11: thank God it happened before Twitter
In light of the Iranian election, Hudson River plane crash and other recent big events that social media has gone nuts for, The LA Times imagines if the World Trade Center attacks had happened in today’s Twitter-happy world. Sounds like 9/11 times 100.
Websites: before they were famous
Before Facebook, Google, YouTube and others were the sleek, cutting-edge sites they are today, they went through the same awkward early years many online ventures do (The Drudge Report is arguably still there). Here’s how 20 top websites looked when they first launched.
Ass-erbaijan: donkey bloggers face prison
Two bloggers from Azerbaijan have been arrested for posting a YouTube video of a donkey giving a news conference — a spoof of the government’s press conferences.
Google, YouTube and you
When it comes to making money from YouTube, Google is showing some finesse (and sharing the wealth with users), says Anders Bylund. Now how about a way to stop copyright issues and cash in at the same time?
YouTube: Broadcast Yourself (and Time Warner)
YouTube will now be able to legally show clips of shows from CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, TNT and Time Warner Television thanks to a new deal made with Time Warner. Full length episodes won’t be available though.
Is Ten “leaking” its own shows to YouTube?
A YouTube account purporting to feature “leaked” Channel Ten content looks suspiciously like it was put there by the network itself. Tim Burrowes investigates.
YouTube wedding: the way of the future
You know that amazing YouTube video with the couple dancing down the aisle that has been everywhere this week? In a world of tulle-puffy dress-cupcake toppers weddings it stood apart.
Smells like Rick Astley
What happens when you mix Rick Astley with Nirvana? You get one amused Crikey editor.
Internet is killing everything, including YouTube
Who cares about newspapers, apparently the refusal to pay for content is killing everything on the internet, including the internet itself.
Grading the celebrity faculty of YouTube’s J-school
YouTube recently launched their Reporters’ Center, offering free video journalism tutorials from some of the media’s biggest names. But are they actually any good? Lewis Grossblogger grades the online professors on their classes.
YouTube launches online training for journos
YouTube has launched their Reporters’ Centre, offering instructional videos, tips and advice from established journalists like Katie Couric, Bob Woodward, Nicholas Kristof, Arianna Huffington and Michael Isikoff.
YouTube takes drastic online action: allows obvious external links
Introducing the Call-To-Action Overlay available on YouTube tomorrow, allowing specific advertising over videos that will send users off-site.
The Hun’s multimedia fail
The Herald Sun beef out a story with some clips nicked from YouTube… they probably should have actually watched them first.
YouTube lets users choose ads — is it a good idea?
YouTube is trialling a new feature which allows users to choose their own ads. But will it be a boon for the hero brands — think movie trailers — and a loss for everyone else? Ben Shepherd considers the pitfalls.
Video, not just Twitter, defines Iranian election fallout
There’s a lot video content coming out of Iran and, like Twitter, it can be overwhelming. Crikey intern Bhakthi Puvanenthiran selects the ones worth watching.
McSweeneys / Thursday, 22 October 2009
“LISN bud LISN” — can you tell the difference between words written by American poet E.E Cummings and comments posted on YouTube? Take McSweeney’s quick quiz.