Archive for March, 2006

Mobile TV: what’s it all mean?

Friday, March 24th, 2006Tomi is featured in two periodicals this week on the topic of mobile-TV convergence. In the American business weekly Barrons, he is quoted at length saying pretty much the same stuff he's on about here at our blogsite, for ...

Children benefit from exposure to digital culture

Monday, March 20th, 2006Children benefit from exposure to digital culture Children need to participate fully in digital culture in order to develop the "skills, knowledge, ethical frameworks and self-confidence needed to be full participants in the world around them," MIT Professor Henry ...

The digital holes in the digital cheese

Friday, March 17th, 2006Rupert Murdoch talked about being either a digital immigrant or a digital native and then went and bought the holes in the digital cheese - though he did not realise it.I was thinking about the how an industrialised ...

Darwinism rudely arrives in our media ecology

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006Darwin said, for wont of repeating myself that it is not the strongest or most intelligent that survive, but the ones most adaptive to change.The other important point Darwin made was the ability of the opposite sex to ...

Adapting to survive – Collaboration the key

Monday, March 13th, 2006Chimpanzees Recruit the Best Collaborators Humans collaborate with non-kin in special ways, but the evolutionary foundations of these collaborative skills remain unclear. We presented chimpanzees with collaboration problems in which they had to decide when to recruit a partner ...

A juggernaut called MySpace.com

Saturday, March 11th, 2006When 28-year-old Tom Anderson of Santa Monica launched his Web site in late 2003, he had in mind a network for fellow indie rockers to take their alternative music straight to fans.Last July, he sold it - for $580 ...

I am in control….whooops… oooh no i’m not

Saturday, March 11th, 2006This is a great piece on the big debate about control of the internet, who, why and where.Who Will Control the Internet? Power, before it comes from arms or wealth, emanates from ideas. The Internet has emerged as a ...

Come together as one

Saturday, March 11th, 2006Today only about 5% of global advertising is online, yet 20% of media is consumed online.And so nobody is as clever as everybody "Collaborative usage of the internet is rising," said Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, a free ...

The explosion of the networked society

Saturday, March 11th, 2006Digital music downloads triplesDigital music sale revenue tripled in the first half of 2005 compared with 2004, figures have suggestedDigital music sale revenue tripled in the first half of 2005 compared with 2004, figures have suggested. The International Federation ...

Pushmepullyou – in a connected world

Saturday, March 11th, 2006Digital music downloads triplesDigital music sale revenue tripled in the first half of 2005 compared with 2004, figures have suggestedDigital music sale revenue tripled in the first half of 2005 compared with 2004, figures have suggested. The International Federation ...

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