New Media and the Creative Industries In the UK
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Economics, Education, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Networks, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Television, Trends, Web/Tech, iPTV | 3 Comments »The Culture, Media and Sport Committee report Opening paragraph of summary The pace of change is so rapid that solutions to some of the problems that we sought to address have already begun to emerge. However, at the ...
Wiki Government: Nobody is as clever as everybody
Thursday, December 20th, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Generation C, Government & Politics, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Web/Tech | No Comments »The core of the argument by Beth Noveck in Wiki-Government. How open-source technology can make government decision-making more expert and more democratic. new technology may be changing the relationship between democracy and expertise, affording an opportunity to ...
Media - News - Trust - Morality - Ethics and Commerce: Uncomfortable bedfellows
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Networks, Newspapers, Participation, Philosophy, Second Life, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Get your facts straight mate In 1985, when asked whether news organizations "get the facts straight" or are "often inaccurate," 55 percent chose the former option and 34 percent the latter. This past July, when Pew asked ...
The key to New Media’s victory: communities
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Posted in Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Newspapers, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Trends | No Comments »In 2007 That's why Communities Dominate Brands. Compare that to the New Media style of community and immediate response, and an interesting dichotomy develops where those in the Old Media are still clinging to the past, while those in ...
Scaling the database wall in the age of engagement
Monday, December 17th, 2007 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Law, Media, Mobile, Networks, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Nice bit of thinking from Dave Winer in Amazon removes the database scaling wall Today, when a company raises VC, it's probably because their app has achieved a certain amount of success and to get to the ...
Analogue = passive
Monday, December 17th, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Engagement Marketing, Media, Networks, Philosophy, Quotes, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »I Don't Want To Consume Media That I Can't Interact With That's the bottom line. When I come into contact with media, I want to do something with it. Tag it, post it, reply to it, comment on it, ...
Personal Curated Consumption @ the BBC
Monday, December 17th, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Networks, Society, Television, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs | 1 Comment »In When push comes to pull. The new economy & culture of networking technology waaaaaaaay back in 2006... I used a phrase curated consumption technology as we argue enables us to connect, work and collaborate ...
The Innovators Dilemma: From the Dark Star to Auntie
Monday, December 17th, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Media, Networks, Web/Tech | No Comments »Six months after leaving Microsoft, BBC future media and technology controller Erik Huggers has blogged on the BBC Internet blog that he actually had to leave Microsoft in order to innovate. Formerly the senior director for Microsoft?s entertainment ...
Death by Tray
Monday, December 17th, 2007 Posted in Humour | 1 Comment »Not our usual fayre @ CDB, but since its coming up to Christmas I think we can lighten up a little. SO check out one of the funniest people on the planet. Eddie Izzard - A big thank you to ...
Working and Living in Virtual Worlds
Sunday, December 16th, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Networks, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Virtual Worlds, Web/Tech | No Comments »IBM?s 6th iForum - Enterprise 3.D: Living and Working in Virtual Worlds by Roo Reynolds - Metaverse Evangelist | View | Upload your own Roo Reynolds
