Social media, public relations, trendwatching and common sense
Posted in wieck on May 13th, 2008
Smartmobs provides a great links summary of how Twitter helped spread the news about the earthquake in China faster than traditional news media, providing many real-time reports and videos.
Posted in wieck on May 9th, 2008
Regine at We Make Money Not Art writes about a documentary showing the “gold farming” industry in China, a real day job that has developed to support activities happening in a virtual space.
Gold Farmers are young people who earn their living by playing MMORPG games. They acquire (”farm”) items of value within a game, usually [...]