Archive for January, 2006

Super-localised communities

Monday, January 30th, 2006 I found this on techcrunch talking about the E27 summit Place site add their software to a standard wifi router and distribute them to cafés, events, etc. The result is a portal that all users of the network see ...

Terry Semel and Social Anthropology

Monday, January 30th, 2006 Like most media executives of a certain age, he looks to his kids for inspiration. In his speech, mainly concerned with plugging a new service called Yahoo to Go that works seamlessly across a variety of devices ...

The passion of fans part deux

Monday, January 30th, 2006 Fans will fund our next movie say film-makers A British film company is hoping to revolutionise the way independent productions are made by appealing to the public to finance its next movie. Vertigo Films, which has built up a cult ...

News is a conversation

Monday, January 30th, 2006 Jeff Jarvis writing in the Media Guardian today says Interactivity isn't easy. I must confess that when I wrote for large publications, I said that I loved my audience ... but that didn't mean I wanted to actually meet or ...

Bubble haunts Hollywood

Monday, January 30th, 2006 2929 Entertainment are an interesting company they are about to release a film shot on HD called Bubble, directed by David Soderbergh simultaneously in cinemas and by video-on-demand. This has got Hollywood in a bit of a pickle - and ...

Waiting for the bubble to burst

Monday, January 30th, 2006 2929 Entertainment are an interesting company they are about to release a film shot on HD called Bubble, directed by David Soderbergh simultaneously in Cinemas and by video-on-demand. This has got Hollywood in a bit of a pickle - and ...

Dynamic Google ads on TV?

Monday, January 30th, 2006 Interesting article via the New York Times: This Time, the Revolution Will Be Televised Convergence is back, but it is not what it used to be. Following its release after about five years in the halfway house for overblown ...

Connected marketing

Sunday, January 29th, 2006 Justin Kirby of DMC has recently co-authored a book on viral and buzz marketing Entitled Connected Marketing and they have a blog and are busy podcasting I believe six are currently available. Justin Co-wrote the book ...

Connected Marketing

Sunday, January 29th, 2006 Justin Kirby of DMC has recently co-authored a book on viral and buzz marketing Entitled Connected Marketing and they have a blog and are busy podcasting I believe six are currently available. Justin Co-wrote the book ...

Who owns the wisdom of the crowd?

Saturday, January 28th, 2006 I stumbled upon this post Who owns the wisdom of the crowd? by Jeff Jarvis who quotes Yochai Benkler A whole set of other behaviors that have grown up in the household, in friendships, in communities, the ...