Archive for 2007

Corporate Ownership of Mass Media Degrades News

Sunday, December 16th, 2007The U.S. mass media ?is controlled by a handful of very large companies? such as General Electric, Disney, Westinghouse, CBS and Fox that ?are under very strong pressure to make a lot of money? and do so ...

The ?26 billion spent on bailing Northern Rock out is double the entire primary school budget.

Sunday, December 16th, 2007So even the most starry-eyed socialist could not have imagined that Gordon Brown would be seriously contemplating the nationalisation of a high-street bank six months into his premiership.The opinion polls say that voters are losing faith in the ...

Full-length TV programs on Internet increasingly popular

Sunday, December 16th, 2007Watching full-length TV program online is increasingly popular, say some studies. Nielsen notes that ABC.com (50 percent), NBC.com (41), CBS.com (37), and Fox.com (24) were the most watched, with other Internet-based alternatives YouTube (17) and iTunes (15) used ...

Nokia & Innovation by Jarkko Sairanen

Sunday, December 16th, 2007If a formula existed that could deliver successful innovations on schedule, every company could be a winner. Most managers will agree that innovation drives success, but there is no blueprint to show them how to generate it.Nokia has ...

Participatory Media to better enable Civic Engagement

Sunday, December 16th, 2007Howard Rheingold writes in Using Participatory Media and Public Voice to Encourage Civic EngagementTeaching young people how to use digital media to convey their public voices could connect youthful interest in identity exploration and social interaction ...

Doohh

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007I am a big fan of John Naughton who writes for the Observer, he is also a founder of Cambridge Visual Networks His musings on out digital world I always find inspiring.His latest outing last Sunday really ...

Visualizing Community Use of Social Media Sites

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007If you run a social media application you probably want to explore how the community focus of a site evolves over time. This means being able to browse through users, photos, tags, or the more complex structures of ...

Lethal Bizzle says its cool being on the Blyk network

Monday, December 10th, 2007On Radio 1 Newsbeat there is a report on how Blyk is changing advertising.Bizzle saysIts a way to get closer to your fansNewsbeat asked people about whether they saw advertising on the mobile as spam? The ...

Radiohead embraces the digital age – Part 2

Sunday, December 9th, 2007The Internet had already witnessed much of the gestation of ?In Rainbows,? as Radiohead tested songs in public, knowing they would be bootlegged immediately. ?The first time we ever did ?All I Need,? boom! It was up on ...

Paranoid Android

Saturday, December 8th, 2007What happens when millons of people become developers?

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