Branding Nations Through Search Results

February 09 Comments Off Category: ScribeMedia.org

What does image search say about a country’s brand. From Colombia to Israel to Iran and Zimbabwe, the social web gives us a healthy dose of brand reality.

Codes and Tubes

June 01 0 Comments Category: Musings

I’ll be teaching at Columbia this fall and am considering what the Web site will be for the course. Drupal, Elgg, BuddyPress, Pligg? They’re all good. Not quite sure what I’ll choose but here are some of the ideas we’ll be talking about.

The NPR API the Sort of Lets You Do Some Things

July 17 0 Comments Category: Musings

NPR announces that it’s making a public API available to access “over 250,000 stories that are grouped into more than 5,000 different aggregations” dating back to 1995. All good stuff, we think. The devil’s in the details though. A quick read through the terms of service lets it be known that the API’s for personal [...]