Posts from — November 2007
The dirty side of (Second) Life
There’s an article in CTV.ca Virtual pedophilia in Second Life causes concern:
Second Life is a virtual world created by — and home to — nine million internet users.
A British investigator created a virtual personality for himself and began looking at Second Life’s enormous sex industry. Inside a virtual shopping centre he found a hidden wall, behind which was a playground with computer-generated children offering sex.
[Via: Techsoup tweet.]
There was more, of course. More child sex. More porn. More bad behaviour.
We need to be careful out there. We need to be careful in real life, in Second Life, in real space, in virtual space. And if someone invents a Third Life or a ‘hyperspace’, we’ll need to be careful there too. Sexual abuse, and non-sexual abuse go wherever people go.
It seems as though every week, every day, we hear another story about pedophiles, child sex, child slavery, sex slavery, abuse.
The perpetrators are priests, school principals, doctors, policemen, social workers, road workers, computer geeks, sportsmen, professionals, rich men, poor men, the man next door. Once in ten thousand times it’s a woman.
It happens so much and so often that it really isn’t ‘news’ any more.
What is wrong in our society that so many men have no conception of boundaries in their sexual activity?
Come on men: it’s time you were having discussions amongst yourselves about how these atrocities are unacceptable and must stop. For heaven’s sake, do something!
Disclaimer: this is the personal opinion of Miraz Jordan, and not an official representation on behalf of the Webguide Partnership.
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November 13, 2007 No Comments
Social Media Sites reference guide
Social Media Sites: A Handy Reference Guide :
Social Media Sites - just what are they? … I wanted to offer a place of reference for the audience to see all the different working parts of Social Media in easy to reference post.
The post looks at:
- Social News: sites such as Digg, and Reddit.
- Photo Sharing: sites such as Flickr and Picasa
- Video Sharing: sites such as YouTube and Blip.TV
- Bookmarking: sites such as de.licio.us, Furl, and ma.gnolia.
- Social Networks: sites such as MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and Live Journal.
- Answer Services: sites such as Yahoo! Answers, and Answers.com.
- Forums & Message Boards: sites such as Rotten Tomatoes, StarTrek Message Boards, and Epicurious.
- Measuring Social Media: sites such as Buzzlogic, BlogPulse, Technorati and Feedburner.
- Also: StumbleUpon andWikipedia.
November 10, 2007 No Comments
Broadband increasing in NZ as at March 2007
Access to broadband Internet has become as important as access to clean water or electricity. While dial-up Internet is better than nothing, it allows users only limited access to the riches available with a broadband connection.
Every six months Statistics New Zealand carries out an Internet Service Provider Survey, and provides information on the total number and nature of Internet subscribers.
Their most recent published finding is that around 1.5 million Kiwis are online, with about half on dial-up and half on broadband. More are going online every day. The number of broadband subscribers is increasing, while the number using dial-up is dropping.
Some edited quotes follow:
For the 6 months ended 31 March 2007, there were 57 ISPs in New Zealand, with 1,464,300 active subscribers. The number of subscribers increased 5.9 percent from 30 September 2006.
At 31 March 2007, the number of subscribers using dial-up was 739,700, down 4.1 percent since September 2006. However, this is still the predominant connection technology with 50.5 percent of total subscribers, down from 55.8 percent six months earlier.
The number of broadband subscribers has increased by 18.5 percent from 30 September 2006, to reach 724,600 subscribers.
There were 35.1 Internet subscribers per 100 inhabitants in New Zealand at the end of March 2007, compared with 33.3 per 100 at 30 September 2006. The number of broadband subscribers increased from 14.7 to 17.3 per 100 inhabitants over the same period.
[Information taken from: Internet Service Provider Survey: March 2007 - Statistics New Zealand.]
November 8, 2007 No Comments
Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog
Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog might be just what you need (and was the source of the link on the previous post here). It’s:
on Robin Hood Marketing—the concept of stealing corporate savvy to sell just causes—and my life as a marketer, from Washington DC to Madagascar to points in between.
I recommend starting with the October 2006 archives, and working forwards. Chock full of great stuff.
November 7, 2007 No Comments
Not non-profit, but For Impact
There’s an excellent free PDF (1.3Mb) available from the For Impact website:
the For Impact point of view [is] a beginning guide to help you transform your organization and your funding.
It’s 21 easy-to-read pages about how to re-imagine your organisation — to leap from being a ‘not-for’profit’ to being ‘for impact’.
November 7, 2007 No Comments
