Archive for 2008

Punctuated Equilibrium for the Johnston Press

Friday, May 16th, 2008Its sad when you see entire industries under threat - its sad when those industries also have only themselves to blame. Sometimes however they just cant see it coming - Blindsided As Stephen Jay Gould wroteStructural or mental ...

The future of TV – Monaco

Thursday, May 15th, 2008I have meet some interesting people in Monaco.Thoughts : panel-based audience measurement - and counting for the digital age is madness...Steam age technology in the digital agePeople are still hung up on the furniture (formats) of commercial messaging...We need new ...

The advertising arms race in social networks

Saturday, May 10th, 2008The Stampede For Social Network Dollars Intensifies writes Diane MermigasThe race to monetize and leverage the power of social networks is turning into a stampede, as evidenced by Microsoft?s recently renewed efforts to acquire Facebook in the wake ...

Hollywood goes gaming

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008'Gaming is now a bigger industry than cinema' said Bobbie JohnsonAnd now we find one of Hollywoods finest Steven Speilberg creating a game for the WiiOn May 6 Steven Spielberg will release his first collaboration with game publisher ...

Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community

Monday, May 5th, 2008Says Stephen A MarglinEconomists celebrate the market as a device for regulating human interaction without acknowledging that their enthusiasm depends on a set of half-truths: that individuals are autonomous, self-interested, and rational calculators with unlimited wants and ...

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus in the World of Participatory Culture

Monday, May 5th, 2008Clay Shirky writes a very philosophical piece about culture/media and participationI was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. ...

Everything’s Not Lost: in the world of traditional media

Monday, May 5th, 2008Print media is struggling with a digital future and are Newspapers embracing the digital age?The New York Times once epitomised all that was great about American newspapers; now it symbolises its industry?s deep malaise. The Grey ...

Everything’s Not Lost: in the world of traditional media

Monday, May 5th, 2008Print media is struggling with a digital future and are Newspapers embracing the digital age?The New York Times once epitomised all that was great about American newspapers; now it symbolises its industry?s deep malaise. The Grey ...

Everything’s Not Lost: in the world of traditional media

Monday, May 5th, 2008Print media is struggling with a digital future and are Newspapers embracing the digital age?The New York Times once epitomised all that was great about American newspapers; now it symbolises its industry?s deep malaise. The Grey ...

From SatNav to SatCom

Monday, May 5th, 2008The future is already here but its just not evenly distributedis a phrase attributed to may people - but the thought came to my mind when reading about the creation of a new service 230 Miles of ...

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