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selling out or cashing in? a new paradigm for advertising
have people heard of Ad.ly. Pretty interesting to connect individuals and advertisers like this. Kind of paid word of mouth. You could voice potential concerns from an editorial integrity stand point, but you could also see a future where individuals get to endorse the brands they believe in and get paid for it. Just met the founder, and he seems to be a really good guy so I look forward to seeing where this goes… -
Digital World Explorer
The digital ethnographer Michael Wesch on the dark side of social media, what we learned from Iran, and why the future of the web depends on human interests—not market interests. As a graduate student in Papua New Guinea, Michael Wesch studied how the introduction of books and literacy changed government and society. Now, as a professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, Wesch examines how digital media is changing human interaction. His YouTube video “Web 2.0… -
First meeting for the “Create, Don’t Hate” billboard project
Seven designers/design studios connected with seven youth in a speed-dating session to getting to know each other, fast. Five (or so) minutes per person. It went fast and we were able to make the pairings of Designer/Student soon after. The event was held at p:ear in downtown. I’d have to say that, both groups were a little tentative at first but everyone loosened up and had a good time finding out about each other’s work. Maybe… -
Bloggers Behind Bars
Global Voices, defenders of free speech online, have launched a new tool called Threatened Voices that lets you look up where bloggers have been arrested or threatened by their governments. China, Iran, and Egypt look particularly bad. And here in the States, Elliott Madison was arresed for using Twitter to help G20 protesters evade the cops. Via Boing Boing. -
Advertising, Abstracted
The Wooster Collective talks to Ji Lee about turning video billboards into glowing art pieces. Ji Lee is one of New York City’s most prolific street artists. Lee’s day job is in advertising, and his art is a reaction to the prolific and uncreative advertising on our streets. He is most well know for the “Bubble Project,” where he placed empty speech bubbles on outdoor advertisements and allowed the city to fill them in. Here, we’re highlighting… -
AYM ’09: Moldova’s “Twitter Revolution”
Interviews from the Alliance of Youth Movements summit: Natalia Morari. On the 6th of April of this year, 15,000 Moldovans rallied in the streets the day after their national election to protest the Communist Party’s rigged victory. It might have looked like any post-election protest in an emerging democracy but there was an important difference: This protest was organized entirely through new media—Twitter, email and text messages, and social networking sites. The number of peaceful protesters continued… -
World Building in a Crazy World — by Jonathan Harris
An enjoyable collection of thoughts about where the internet is (or could be) going… Original article: Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World
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re:active billboard project with Design Ignites Change
re:activekicked off our billboard design project with Design Ignites Change here in Portland, OR on Saturday. We are very excited to use the space typically available to corporations (the billboard) and use it for the purpose of getting youth voices out in the world. These are important voices and the chosen theme for the project is “Tolerance”. We feel that it touches everyone in some way and that it is open enough to allow for many approaches… -
Should We Ban Advertising Junk Food to Kids?
Couple things we know. Childhood obesity is basically a national health crisis. Sugar cereals, as we called them when I was a kid, are not good for us, despite being delicious and despite marketers’ best efforts to have us think otherwise. Now, thanks to a leaked Yale University report, we can add one more factoid to he mix: Preschoolers are bombarded with cereal ads an average of 642 a year. Now, we’re not talking about ads… -
The Global Climate Movement Comes of Age
The global grassroots climate movement is finally here, and huge. Climate activists have been waiting two long decades to see what a global climate movement would look like. As of last Saturday, we know. And as movement mentor and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben wrote in an email after watching photos of grassroots actions around the world projecting from the giant, iconic screens of Times Square, “it looked diverse and creative and beautiful.” Diverse? There were events on every continent…
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