I skip ads when I watch television. I don’t think of this behavior as “stealing” because I’ve paid to have those television signals beamed into my home*. I do, sometimes, worry about missing out on shared experiences that help bind people together.
Let me give you an example.
If I were to say “toy bunny” and “going-and-going” …. and asked you to write another word or phrase related to these two … what would you write?
Poynter’s NewsU ran a webinar last week on using smartphones for mobile media production. The session leader, Amani Channel (@urbanreporter, LinkedIn), is the Content/Community Manager for Public Broadcasting Atlanta’s online community http://lensonatlanta.org. Session highlights (supplemented by my knowledge of technologies, history) follow.
Seattle-based Picnik is a recent addition to the Google start-up acquisition stable. Thinking about Picnik, I realized that I had only a hazy idea of how online (web-based) photo editing evolved. I’ve been using Photoshop since it was something like v2 (eons ago, in Internet time), so it’s not surprising that I was a relatively late adopter of online editing tools.
I own Apple stock, but I’m not lining up at my local Apple store this weekend or waiting with bated breath for the UPS or FedX guy to show up at my door. Why not?
The iPad cometh on 3 April, and with it, comes contests.
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