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2006 Review
[SUMMARY—It's nearly the end of the year so gather round for a quick recap…]
MediaSnackers was publicly launched in June 2006. 7 months down and here's what we've done:
20,000 unique visitors last month. 236 weblog posts. 58 podcast interviews. 5 training gigs. 4 email interviews. 3 training films (1 teaser). 2 youth contributors.
And we're just starting to get warmed up ;-)
Thank you to all those individuals who stopped by, emailed, participated in the interviews, suggested a link, a person, a website, a project, offered support, advice, praise, criticism, attended our training courses. Thank you.
Please take the time to sign up to the FREE MediaSnackers monthly email digest so you can get all the latest news, developments and announcements in 2007 as there will be loads—not least the new monthly MediaSnackers Vodcast.
Have a groovy MediaSnacking Crimbo folks… see you in 2007!
Filed by DK on December 22 2006 | READ IT »
MediaSnackers Podcast#58
[SUMMARY—The 58th MediaSnackers podcast discusses the new blogging platform Vox with its founder Mena Trott.]
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Mena Trott, president and a co-founder of Six Apart who run blogging platforms Movable Type, Typepad, LiveJournal and recently launched Vox in October.
0.00—0.33 Introductions
0.34—1.38 what Vox is all about
1.39—3.26 privacy settings within Vox
3.27—5.12 why we need this
5.13—7.02 convergence with mobile phones technology
7.03—9.39 the future of blogging
9.40—10.06 trying to get some number about Vox
10.07—11.34 how the users direct the service development
11.35—11.46 outro
Want to suggest someone or put your virtual hand-up to be interviewed? Then get in touch here or send me an audio message by clicking the icon opposite.
Subscribe directly to these podcasts through iTunes by clicking on the icon opposite (download iTunes for free here).
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Check out our other podcasts here.
Filed by DK on December 21 2006 | READ IT »
Project Happiness
[SUMMARY—Using new media to answer the age old question of what makes people happiness.]
(US/IND/TIB) Project Happiness links three groups of students in America, Nigeria and India, all focussed and collaborating through the internet, video cameras, and other new communications technologies, exploring and creating a new curriculum for His Holiness the Dalai Lama's book Ethics for the New Millennium.
They will all be meeting up in India in Spring 2007 and will also get the opportunity to meet and discuss their work with the Dalai Lama himself.
Student Daniel Nanas said:
I know that the culmination of this kind of work has to be worthwhile. It dawns on me what a great opportunity I have.
Santa Cruz Sentinel article link
Filed by DK on December 21 2006 | READ IT »
MediaSnackers Podcast#57
[SUMMARY—The 57th MediaSnackers podcast explores the global youth survey from Sulake.]
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Emmi Kuusikko is Director of User and Market Insight for Sulake Corporation who run the online world, Habbo hotel, discussing here their global youth survey.
0.00—0.10 Intro
0.11—0.45 introductions
0.46—2.04 what the Habbo is all about
2.05—3.24 global youth survey overview
3.24—5.49 the big take-aways from the research
5.50—7.00 media use stats
7.01—8.00 why the internet is so popular
8.01—9.24 differences between countries
9.25—10.46 are the results reflective of the general youth populace
10.31—10.46 Outro
Want to suggest someone or put your virtual hand-up to be interviewed? Then get in touch here or send me an audio message by clicking the icon opposite.
Subscribe directly to these podcasts through iTunes by clicking on the icon opposite (download iTunes for free here).
Not using iTunes? Then just copy / paste this feed and drop it into your podcast aggregating software.
Check out our other podcasts here.
Filed by DK on December 20 2006 | READ IT »
Mobile Digital News
[SUMMARY—School kids capturing the news with mobile devices.]
(UK) Check out this article which shows how easy it is for MediaSnackers to become creators, producers and participants by simply using the digital media devices they already have.
Thabo, 12, said:
Normally in class, we record information in writing. Today, we wrote scripts and used technology, so it was a good balance.
Exactly what we were doing with the participants of the MediaSnackers training last week in Plymouth.
Filed by DK on December 18 2006 | READ IT »
Mediabox
[SUMMARY—New media fund for UK youth.]
(UK) £6 million is being made available for young people in the UK to enable them to have a voice through media projects. The fund is called Mediabox and according to the press release grants will be available for film, radio, television, print, photography and interactive media.
Melissa Gibbons, a young person who has been working on the brand design on Mediabox, said:
I think 'MEDIA BOX' will be a great opportunity for young people looking to get in the Media world. I'm confident that the brand identity for 'Media Box', with the strapline and website, will attract young people and will not be a 1 month wonder, but will stand its time.
Not much on the website at the moment and don't know if it's Mediabox or 'Media Box' but can MediaSnackers play?
Filed by DK on December 18 2006 | READ IT »
Multitasking: Good or Bad?
[SUMMARY—Is juggling many forms of media at once having a negative impact.]
(US/World) Are young people who media multitask on a path to attention deficit disorder or are they evolving a skill past generations never had?
A big question those brainy folks at the Kaiser Family Foundation took on recently.
Lots of take-aways here including the webcast and presentation of the session.
The Teen Media Juggling Act: The Implications of Media Multitasking Among American Youth
Filed by DK on December 17 2006 | READ IT »
Media Literacy Videos
[SUMMARY—Made by students of Miami University.]
(US) Check out these great media literacy short films made by university students covering issues of advertising, Channel One, news, media representations, government oversight, etc.
Personal recommendations are Media Rules, Corporate Synergy and Fair and Balanced News.
Filed by DK on December 17 2006 | READ IT »
Creative Partnerships Training Part2
[SUMMARY—A quick review of our training in Plymouth.]
(UK) We just delivered our two day youth professional MediaSnackers Training to Creative Partnerships (South West).
One of the big take-away's from the two days was how important 'play' is in the learning pedagogy. Allowing people the time and space to direct their own learning at their place with that sense of fun instilled is something we'll continue to develop.
Thank you Katy, Julie, Jo, Helen, Jenny, Barry, Jan, TC, Cass, Greg, Mel, Kate, Ed, Jake, Tamsin, Paula and Laura for making the training so much fun.
Filed by DK on December 16 2006 | READ IT »
Creative Partnerships Training Part 1
[SUMMARY—Off again.]
(UK) We're just getting our stuff together to head off to Plymouth to deliver our two day youth professional training to Creative Partnerships (South West).
In just over 6 months we would've delivered 5 training sessions and in the New Year, will have some exciting news about some more very exciting training assignments :-)
Filed by DK on December 13 2006 | READ IT »
Wii Reviewed
[SUMMARY—One 17 year old gives us the lowdown on the new gaming must-have.]
(UK) I was expectant of the Wii since summer, which led to me being able to say "I can't wait till December when I can finally have a Wii." In case you aren't aware what I'm talking about, the new Nintendo console, originally named Revolution, is called Wii. It's pronounced 'we', rather than 'wee'. They named it this because they wanted to imply that the console included everyone. And the two iis mean 'good' in Japanese. And you could say cynically that Nintendo are so obsessed with becoming number one that they named their console after it.
Filed by DK on December 13 2006 | READ IT »
US Teens Are Ravenous MediaSnackers
[SUMMARY—Chomping their way through media, stateside...]
(US) Those multitasking MediaSnackers stateside are racking up 72 hours of digital media use a week. They are also 'tooled-up' with iPods and games consoles plus nearly 70% say they have an online social-networking profile.
Jim Taylor, vice chairman of the Harrison Group, which conducted the 2006 Teen Trend study, said:
This generation is unique. Teen life has become a theatrical, self-directed media production.
Filed by DK on December 11 2006 | READ IT »
Policing Youth Online
[SUMMARY—A kite mark to protect kids online.]
(UK) As described in the future trends post (see 'Legislation Not Education'), the UK government has teased us with plans of an approved 'stamp' for software to ensure parents feel safe whilst their child is online.
No other real details, but as more and more media switches online and the youth follow, you can bet your YouTube and MSN Chat account this will be the start of many policies and strategies to 'police youth online' or provide better protection for them—depends on your viewpoint.
Home Secretary John Reid said:
We are setting up a task group with the industry to protect kids from what has become one of the greatest threats of abuse, which is the World Wide Web, the internet.
UPDATE: Putting two and two together here I'm thinking these boys will show up on the radar soon and could be linked with the announcement…
Filed by DK on December 10 2006 | READ IT »
MediaSnackers Podcast#56
[SUMMARY—The 56th MediaSnackers podcast interviews the star and creator of Dylans Couch.]
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Dylan is the face of Dylan's Couch, a typical 13 year old with a podcast.
0.00—0.10 Intro
0.11—0.46 Dylan introduces himself and Dylan's Couch
0.47—1.15 where the stories come from
1.16—1.56 inspiration behind Dylan's Couch
1.57—2.23 favourite episode?
2.24—3.15 what other vodcasts Dylan likes
3.16—3.39 what his friends think
3.40—4.17 how Dylan feels about the community he's created around his vodcasts
4.18—5.16 how long it takes to do an episode
5.17—5.37 the future
5.38—6.16 other digital activities
6.17—7.14 the new generation of digital producers
7.15—7.50 who else is involved and their roles
7.51—8.12
Want to suggest someone or put your virtual hand-up to be interviewed? Then get in touch here or send me an audio message by clicking the icon opposite.
Subscribe directly to these podcasts through iTunes by clicking on the icon opposite (download iTunes for free here).
Not using iTunes? Then just copy / paste this feed and drop it into your podcast aggregating software.
Check out our other podcasts here.
Filed by DK on December 8 2006 | READ IT »
MediaSnack-snack-snackers#6
[SUMMARY—Quotes which illustrate.]
(WORLD) MediaSnackers are being served more and more ways to snack on their chosen media than ever. It's hard to differentiate between companies and start-ups enabling snacking or the snacking trends driving media platform development, but here are a couple of quotes from the 'experts' to sum it all up for any 'MediaSnacker-virgins':
The fears are so painfully overblown, is there porn on MySpace? Of course. And bullying, sexual teasing and harassment are rampant among teenagers. It is how you learn to make meaning, cultural roles, norms. These kids need to explore their life among strangers. Teach them how to negotiate this new world. They need these public spaces now that other public spaces are closed to them. They need a place that is theirs. We should not always be chasing them and stopping them from growing up.
Danah Boyd quoted from this article.
We are committed to keeping sex offenders off MySpace. Sentinel Safe will allow us to aggregate all publicly available sex offender databases into a real-time searchable form, making it easy to cross-reference and remove known registered sex offenders from the MySpace community. The creation of this first-of-its-kind real-time searchable database technology is a significant step to keep our members as safe as possible.
Chief Security Officer, Hemanshu Nigam, talking about plans to make MySpace safer.
Children are doing this quite innocently. We don't need to criminalise them.
Robin Hart of Intuitive Media whose survey found almost a third 1,500 eight to 13-year-olds shared music via their mobiles.
MediaSnack-snack-snackers #1, 2, 3, 4 & 5.
Filed by DK on December 8 2006 | READ IT »
YouthLearn's 100 Big Things
[SUMMARY—Just a 100?]
(US/WORLD) In their latest newsletter, YouthLearn has listed a 100 what they call 'big things' to happen in youth, education and technology.
A great place to start for an overview of the youth media/tech landscape.
Filed by DK on December 7 2006 | READ IT »
Lil' Bush
[SUMMARY—From mobile to TV.]
(US) Here's another first: a cartoon series created for consumption on mobile phones has migrated to the bigger-small screen, TV.
Lil' Bush is an hilarious cartoon about the US President portrayed as a little kid, with other members of his government also 'shrunk-down' to his size. Fantastically scipted and performed which is what you expect from the producers of The Simpsons and Late Night with David Letterman.
An excpetion to prove the rule or a first of many… ?
Filed by DK on December 5 2006 | READ IT »
Illegal Music Downloads
[SUMMARY—The rise and rise of illegal music downloading.]
(WORLD) Downloading music illegally from the Internet is probably the biggest single pet hate of the music industry in the past few years. More peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks such as Limewire, and torrent sites (which enables the user to download whole albums) are popping up around the web, challenging legal file-sharing programs such as the iTunes music store and Napster's pay service.
Filed by DK on December 5 2006 | READ IT »
MediaSnackers Podcast#55
[SUMMARY—The 55th MediaSnackers podcast discusses Children's TV with Anne Home OBE.]
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Anna Home OBE is the Chief Executive of the Children's Film and Television Foundation, has an impressive background in Children's media and also is the chair for Save Kids TV campaign.
0.00—0.10 Intro
0.11—1.19 Anna introduces herself, background and current focus
1.20—2.46 Save Kids TV
2.47—4.06 the impact of the Ofcom ruling
4.07—5.52 what the UK can learn from other countries
5.53—7.39 is this all too little too late?
7.40—8.25 how the industry will have to change to consider the new media devices and platforms kids are embracing
8.26—9.26 Anna's view of the future of media
9.27—9.38 Thanks and outro
Want to suggest someone or put your virtual hand-up to be interviewed? Then get in touch here or send me an audio message by clicking the icon opposite.
Subscribe directly to these podcasts through iTunes by clicking on the icon opposite (download iTunes for free here).
Not using iTunes? Then just copy / paste this feed and drop it into your podcast aggregating software.
Check out our other podcasts here.
Filed by DK on December 5 2006 | READ IT »
December MediaSnackers Digest
[SUMMARY—The last email digest of 2006.]
(UK) Check out the latest digest which features the unique visitor stats for the website:
Filed by DK on December 3 2006 | READ IT »
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