Archive for February, 2007

The new web politics

Saturday, February 10th, 2007In the FT today 10 Feb 2007. Barack Obama, the fresh face of the Democratic party, will formally announce his candidacy for the 2008 presidential nomination in Springfield, Illinois, today.In The Power of Hope , Gary Young writes Six ...

Film making over the next 10 years

Thursday, February 8th, 2007The Next Ten Years of FilmWHAT IS A RE-MIXABLE FILM?A ?remixable film? is a film YOU can meddle with. Its form is influenced by game design, online media and mash-up culture. It pre-empts a future for ...

From Participatory Culture to Participatory Democracy

Thursday, February 8th, 2007On February 24th, MIT Comparative Media Studies will host a conference in collaboration with Harvard?s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. The one-day event will be held at MIT, ...

Gaming the New Marketing?

Thursday, February 8th, 200789% of UK households with children have a games console, and 80% of those who play video games are aged 15 to 44. Further studies show that 40% of people who view ads in games are more likely to buy ...

Replay the ‘Media Mashups’ Forum debate

Thursday, February 8th, 2007I was part of the discussion at The School of Journalism at the University of Lanchashire on Can Big Media Brands Survive and Thirve in a Wired World? on Tuesday evening.You can watch the conversation here

Evolution is unstoppable web 3.0

Thursday, February 8th, 2007A presentation made by Nova SpivackBecause the focus of the third-generation Web is quite different from that of Web 2.0, this new generation of the Web probably does deserve its own name. In keeping ...

Citizen Media Is Here to Stay

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007Citizen Media Is Here to StayLocal news web sites offering content generated by users are securing a valuable place in the media landscape and are likely to continue as important sources of community news, according to ...

The film festival that never ends.

Monday, February 5th, 2007Embracing the digital age, is about the 4C's: Culture, Commerce, Connectivity, and Community.Currently in its free beta stage, Jaman offers about 1,000 foreign and independent films for download. After you watch ? or even while you?re ...

Diversity Powers Innovation

Monday, February 5th, 2007When the diverse team applies those diverse heuristics, the effects can be super-additive. Watson plus Crick were far more impressive than either in isolation. On a far larger scale, Silicon Valley's breadth of bright engineers from different academic ...

If you quote the Pope, you pay the Man

Sunday, February 4th, 2007Whilst over at Peter Hirshberg's blog I cam across this.Pope Sues To Prevent Spreading The Good WordThe Vatican has announced that is is enforcing copyright on the Pope's writings and encyclicals. You heard that ...

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