Analysis Project | Story 1 | Week 4

Friday, 27th, March, 2009


Story Choices

1. Telstra offshoot hires teen hacker 'Akill'
2. ISP pulls out of internet filter trial
3. Govt should drop internet filter: GetUp
4. Broadband brings medical specialists to the bush
5. CommBank mobile phone catch-up bid
6. Telstra's new walk
7. Google removes Street View images after privacy complaints
8. Aussie-made social news sites Kwoff, Regator taking off
9. News search News News Millions may have visited popular websites on 'leaked blacklist'
10. Apple offers a sneak peek at new software for iPhone, iPod Touch
11. 'Leaked list of banned websites' was not the ACMA blacklist, says Stephen Conroy
    

Chosen Story

Aussie-made social news sites Kwoff, Regator taking off

By Lara Sinclair, The Australian, Posted March 23, 2009 02:00am

New media means a consistent torrent of podcasts, news, job listings, web address’s, friend invites, etc. The apparent difficulty of sifting through this information has become a bigger delima then being able to access particular information. Demonstrating that Australians have a need for a local niche social aggregator the creators have built Kwoff a social bookmarking service and a for aggregation and

These technologies demonstrate an anti political route to content receivable. It allows all to see what is popular for the masses at any given moment but also allows the user to search, record and rate certain content. This demonstrates a feedback loop that web 2.0 web culture has allowed. People are enabled to feed from the committee and then feed back into the community.

These technologies are quite similar to the way in which google has grown to a world dominance in internet culture. Google survived the ‘.com’ crash due it’s ability to allow humans to access the world wide web. Humans use google like an eyeglass to see what in the ether we call the internet. Humans are freed

Social benefit of these technologies are there ability for two way communication and suggestion. Using the benefits of human power people are the ones that run the system. A perpetual system of suggestion favorites and dislikes.

Problems with this structured approach are the factors of the repitition of politcal frameworks. The most active users will push certain stories hense becoming the powerful and the less active users becoming consumers and passive. This may to systems of reconfiguation like

References


Story
Aussie-made social news sites Kwoff, Regator taking off

Technologies in question
Kwoff
Regator

Competitors
Delicious
Digg
StumbleUpon
Reddit
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