http://peteashton.com Journeyman of the blogging spheres Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:00:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Every girl online is fat, ugly and unsexy. Here's how to get over it. - "Give a man (or a woman) an anonymous account, and he'll eviscerate your self-esteem." http://peteashton.com/2008/07/every_girl_online_is_fat_ugly_and_unsexy_here039s_how_to_get_over_it/ Ariel Waldman - social media blogger whose words I find interesting and in place inspiring. Will be subscribing. http://peteashton.com/2008/07/ariel_waldman/ Rhubarb Radio development blog - Set up by me during Thursday's meeting, this should hopefully be where interested parties can discuss ideas and plans for this new community radio station in Birmingham http://peteashton.com/2008/07/rhubarb_radio_development_blog/ Rhubarb Radio - Now this looks good. A creative industries community radio station like London's Resonance FM broadcasting from the Custard Factory. Meeting Thursday 6pm in The Kitchen. http://peteashton.com/2008/07/rhubarb_radio/ gapingvoid: think geek - Hugh Macleod's definition of a geek: "Somebody who socializes via objects.” http://peteashton.com/2008/07/gapingvoid_think_geek/ Google learns to crawl Flash - Bad bad news. One of the key reasons not to have a stupid Flash website was Google indexing. That's now out of the window. Goodbye cross platform open standards, hello proprietary code that only works efficiently on Windows. Stupid Google. http://peteashton.com/2008/07/google_learns_to_crawl_flash/ Paradigm Shift: News is Community - Following Adam Tinworth's "Why Media Gets Community Wrong" rant. http://peteashton.com/2008/07/paradigm_shift_news_is_community/ The Five Essential Elements of Effective Social Media Marketing - One of those fine line between good and evil things here but when you strain the marketing stuff out there are some interesting thoughts on the whole authentic voice thing. http://peteashton.com/2008/07/the_five_essential_elements_of_effective_social_media_marketing/ Why Media Gets Community Wrong - Great rant from Adam Tinworth which can be summarised as "Community is not a place. Community is an approach to publishing." Plenty in there to learn from. http://peteashton.com/2008/07/why_media_gets_community_wrong/ 4iP Pre-launch thoughts. "How do I sum up an event that promised so much and delivered so little?" - Azeem Ahmad, one of the more switched on journo students I know, was pretty unimpressed with the launch 4iP "investment fund for innovation". I have plenty to say here about the ... http://peteashton.com/2008/07/4ip_pre-launch_thoughts_quothow_do_i_sum_up_an_event_that_promised_so_much_and_delivered_so_littlequot/ Posterous - Email in some images and text and it creates a nice looking web page. Do it again from the same email and you've got a blog. Very impressive and I need to write more about why but for now here's the link. Go check it out. http://peteashton.com/2008/07/posterous/ Kira Cochrane on the apparent backlash against feminism - To my surprise and disappointment I feel the need to be a bit of a militant feminist these days. Surely we should be over this shit already? I mean, some of this is frankly embarrassing. http://peteashton.com/2008/07/kira_cochrane_on_the_apparent_backlash_against_feminism/ Watchification - Speechification for telly. Interesting that while they rip and mp3 the radio shows they're embedding the iPlayer here, meaning the older posts are full of "no longer available" screens and therefore useless. Be useful for current stuff though. http://peteashton.com/2008/07/watchification/ Lolitics - I can haz Birmingham politics? Yes you can has. http://peteashton.com/2008/07/lolitics/ Maybe because I'm on an organisational trip tonight, maybe because it always amuses me when m'gd'friend Stef contacts me through his PA, or maybe because I was just in a silly mood but I created my own personal assistant today. His name is Simon and he sorts out my meetings ... http://peteashton.com/2008/07/talk_to_my_imaginary_pa/ A few weeks ago I was chatting with Dave Peebles at the Custard Factory about the large number of art galleries and similar projects and establishments that were cropping up in Digbeth all of a sudden. Ideas such as approaching the council or Marketing Birmingham about doing some kind of ... http://peteashton.com/2008/07/digbeth_is_good/ BBC Launches Revamped iPlayer; YouTube Still Dominates - Some interesting figures from the iPlayer like certain programs getting 40% of their viewers through it. Not sure about the YouTube comparison - apples and oranges, surely? http://peteashton.com/2008/07/bbc_launches_revamped_iplayer_youtube_still_dominates/ Is Google Making Us Stupid? - This topic has cropped up a bit recently as those of us who are subsumed in social media realise our memories aren't as good as they used to be. Or maybe we're just getting old? http://peteashton.com/2008/07/is_google_making_us_stupid/ Hide&Seek 1: Emergent Game resonances - The redoubtable Nikki Pugh goes to an Alternative Reality Game conference and compares her notes to the experience of running The Emergent Game last month. As always with her a lot of good stuff to digest. http://peteashton.com/2008/07/hideampseek_1_emergent_game_resonances/ XWiki - An open source wiki program mentioned to me in a random smoking conversation last night. Looks interesting as an alternative to MediaWiki. http://peteashton.com/2008/07/xwiki/