Archive for August, 2009

shopping sets you free?

Saturday, August 15th, 2009Neal Lawson, wrote a powerful piece on what I describe as the toxic tail end of the mass consumer society. Zygmunt Bauman said that, "you judge a modern society not by what it consumes, but by what it throws away."He ...

Surviving, and thriving in this wired up world

Thursday, August 13th, 2009Early this year,  I co-wrote a book called Social Media Marketing: How Data Analytics helps to monetize the User Base in Telecoms, Social Networks, Media and Advertising in a Converged Ecosystem. (Futuretext 2009).This book is important because, the 4 ...

Traditional media must “engage” or die

Thursday, August 13th, 2009Half the country's 1,300 local newspapers will close between now and 2013, destroying 20,000 media jobs. There will be a decline of original content across the board that will have enormous consequences for democracy.Its not that journalism, news and newspapers ...

Literacies for the 21st Century

Friday, August 7th, 2009The word Empire was a mental framework, philosophy that spawned its own literacy. The industrial revolution did the same thing, as did the mass consumer, mass media world. War too brings its own literacy and mental framework, from; WW2, to ...

Networked economics comes to the music industry

Friday, August 7th, 2009Richard Wray writes,It has finally sunk in that there will not be one single replacement for the ongoing drop in "physical" music sales - in other words, the perpetual decline in CD buying. Instead, a host of new services will ...

Mobile engagement for local authorities

Thursday, August 6th, 2009I picked this up from the Linkedin Group on mobile content:How can local government make savings and improve services? The answer, is mobile communications.If “Quantitative Easing” is out of the question, how can local councils cope with a burden of ...

Social media but an element of Engagement

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Tim Harrap, very kindly pointed me to lessons learn't in social media by Dirk Shaw, (Great name)Its good sound advice, common sense and obviously hard won. My view however is that Engagement as a principal co-joins social media with other ...

For those about to rock – we salute you

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009The 100 best blogs that are interested in and devoted to the idea of change for a better societyVia the FutureGov network

Whose doing what in a community?

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Websites where users can organize and share information are flourishing, but it can be hard to know which users and information to trust. Now a team of European researchers has developed an algorithm that ranks the expertise of users and ...

No Straight Lines – Why No Straight Lines

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009I work with the Think Tank Freedom Lab in Amsterdam, and I have had a fruitful relationship with The FreedomLab boys since 1995. This film is something they created from a two hour conversation about my next project, and what ...

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