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The Duck Song

Posted by Clare Curran on November 14th, 2010

I occasionally put up stuff which shows the next thing that kids are into online. The last one was The Annoying Orange.

The Duck Song was brought to my attention today by one of my kids who knows all the words. It’s the phenomena of social media via youtube and that viral thing that happens when something takes off. And our kids are in the vanguard.

Last year it was Club Penguin. Earlier this year it was Fred Figglehorn. Who was very annoying.

In the last few months it’s been Smosh. They’re a couple of teenage boys who made a series of inane video clips from their bedrooms which went viral.

Now The Duck Song is the latest thing. Written by a bloke called Bryant Oden, it’s an animated silly song which has had 17.5 million views since about March.

And there’s no agenda. Other than to say that the duck seems very annoying and obscure.

Wouldn’t it be good for some Kiwis to invent the next thing

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Filed under: Social media, children, comms & IT, humour
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The annoying orange phenomenon

Posted by Clare Curran on August 1st, 2010

A bit of light relief. Also a slightly scary insight into how an odd and crazy idea can become a phenomenon.

This is what the ten year olds are watching on YouTube. Goodness only knows who the rest of the dedicated audience is. Maybe it’ll be you!

Annoying Orange is a comedy web series created by Dane Boedigheimer, under the name “daneboe.” By June 2010, it had amassed over 137 million views on YouTube. Starting on January 11, 2010, the Annoying Orange got his own YouTube channel, and as of July 13, 2010 is currently ranked as the 15th most subscribed channel of all time.

This one is called Back to the fruiture.

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Filed under: children, comms & IT, humour, internet
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ACE vs ACC – they win, we all lose

Posted by Maryan Street on February 23rd, 2010

Tomorrow (Wednesday) the Education and Science Select Committee was meant to be hearing my submission on the 51,000+ signature petitions opposing the cuts to Adult and Community Education (ACE). But the government decided to go into urgency to pass wretched Nick Smith’s wretched ACC legislation – you know the one, where we pay more and get less in the way of supportive entitlements to get us working and playing again after an injury. More on that in another post.

You might have seen this already elsewhere, but it deserves to go up here as well, as a great characterisation of what Anne Tolley has done to ACE in our local communities. It’s PPTA’s clever cartoon:

It’s an amusing antidote to being depressed by the systematic destruction of our ACC system causing heated debate in the House. But whatever it was going to be tomorrow – ACE or ACC – we are all losing. It’s either our easy to access, community-based, second chance education, or our world-class compensation scheme. And people said they wanted a change. :-(

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Filed under: ACC, community, education
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Twitter not just for twits

Posted by Clare Curran on June 21st, 2009

Many people think Twitter is for twits, but who would have thought it could become a major organising tool as it has in Iran in recent weeks. Thought this was worth a look and a think.

I have to admit I have started Twittering, to the dismay of some of my family, and interestingly, to the obvious close interest of some on the other side of the political fence who seem to find some of my tweets worthy of blog posts and the odd Ministerial comment.

Social networking is transforming our communities and creating new dilemmas and challenges in communication.

The network and the digitisation of data means we have immediate access to more knowledge and information than ever in history, and we can do what we like with it. And we, the consumers, are not only passively receiving the information; we’re starting to do stuff with it ourselves.

I’m keen to know what people think about Twitter as a tool.

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Filed under: comms & IT, international
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