Archive for July, 2006

Howard Rheingold and Tim Berners Lee on net neutrality

Saturday, July 15th, 2006I came across a verbatum post that TBL  made on net neutrality on Howard Rheingold's blogHere is a quote I thought to be very powerfulControl of information is hugely powerful. In the US, the threat is that companies ...

Leveraging the Knowledge of our peers: community and scientific research

Friday, July 14th, 2006Howard Rheingold would describe the following article as Technologies of cooperationThe article is authored by Thomas J. Sharpton, Arpan A. JhaveriThomas J. Sharpton is a co-founder of SIPHS LLC, and is a Ph.D. candidate in microbiology ...

Harnessing collective intelligence

Thursday, July 13th, 2006A 23-year-old Indian entrepreneur today announced release of  the Tezaa Project that searches perceptions and opinions. Designed and developed to facilitate decision making and occasionally substituting conventional web search, Tezaa lets people create polls and vote, to collectively form social ...

The rise and rise of the amateurs in the networked society

Thursday, July 13th, 2006Amateurs again threaten to tip world upside down says the International Herald TribuneWhile music and film producers loudly drag illegal file sharers to court, company executives, government officials and industry lobbies are debating how to regulate the creation ...

Digital immigrants buying up digital natives

Thursday, July 13th, 2006We all know about News Corp buying myspace or, ITV buying FriendsterThe Economist reports thatOld media companies are also snapping up internet firms as fast as they can. Most of these are profitable, in contrast to the dotcoms ...

The truth about school dinners

Thursday, July 13th, 2006We love Jamie Oliver. We have blogged about the cheeky chappy once or twice, :-) and we applaud how he has mastered his own brand, kept his authenticity, and utilised combinations of old media and new media to devastating effect.If ...

Media and identity in Japan

Thursday, July 13th, 2006The first Gran Cyber Café opened in 1999. Today there are 10, serving some 5,000 people a day. Each has a slightly different orientation - some are geared to teenagers, some to salarymen - but the atmosphere is the same ...

What is the future for newspapers?

Thursday, July 13th, 2006Asks Victor Keegan in Can a crowd really edit our daily paper?One of the most fascinating questions is what, if any, future there is for newspapers as the creative destruction of the internet gathers pace. What is ...

Google video goes international

Thursday, July 13th, 2006Via the BBCGoogle has signed up a series of partners who will provide clips for its fledgling video service.The deals mean that visitors will be able to watch Wimbledon matches, documentaries and sitcoms via the Google video ...

ANA survey: most integrated marketing communications need improvement

Thursday, July 13th, 2006A new survey on the state of integrated marketing communications, released by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA ), reveals that 67 percent of marketers develop integrated marketing programs across most or all of their brands, but only 33 ...

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