Archive for September, 2009

Networked music economics and the cloud

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 From Wired Magazine 5 music services that place their economic models in the cloud 5 Sites That Tap the Music in the Cloud Fizy This Turkish site compiles audio from around the Net into a database from which you can curate your ...

innovation: charts vs. process

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 I had an email exchange with someone recently about innovation, I wrote, For me the point is about process - not in charts. The issue for those that worship at the alter of the tyranny of numbers, is that they cannot ...

Monitoring the social flows of communication data

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 17th November this event takes place With the phenomenal growth of social networks, blogging, video & image-sharing and micro-blogging, Social Media Monitoring (SMM) is becoming one of the hottest areas of marketing and PR innovation. Enabling companies to listen to conversations, ...

The open gardens of augmented reality

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 Recently we posted about Layar – an augmented reality mobile screen, and I know that this is a topic that is going to transform marketing and communications and how in fact we interface with the world. INTERFACE WITHOUT INTERFERENCE Is a saying ...

Falling out of love with mainstream media?

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 As we often argue, without trust you are nothing in this world. Now that has always been the case its just in the networked society the stakes are just that little more higher. Nearly two-thirds — 63 percent — of Americans ...

Advertising in the networked society

Monday, September 14th, 2009 I picked this up from a Jay Rosen tweet, blog networks it seems are picking up advertising revenue Two blog networks had seen revenues up 20% and 45% respectively, since the beginning of the year. Insight: Meanwhile, advertising revenue for magazines dropped 21 ...

Literacy in the networked society

Monday, September 14th, 2009 As we migrate from the industrial world to the nectworked society - many argue we need a new literacy to help us on our way. [caption id="attachment_4405" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pldms/2553479524/"][/caption] Euan posted this on his blog last week via Clive Thompson via ...

The best kind of rules are those we apply to ourselves

Monday, September 14th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4400" align="aligncenter" width="252" caption="Johnny Cash walking the line: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8697877@N06/531859329"][/caption] Nice one Jamais, who goes onto to say in his post The best kind of rules are those we apply to ourselves, those we believe in. Ethics--sometimes thought of as "how you ...

FAIYATORIKKUBOBU rocket bike

Saturday, September 12th, 2009 Got a million yen for the jet powered bike via Treehugger. FAIYATORIKKUBOBU, ???????????  (pronounced as Fire Truck Bob) is a bicycle fitted with a TABINJETTOENJIN (Turbine Jet Engine) that allows you KERUZU (cruise) in HAIPA (hyper) speed! Commuting will never be same ...

Transmedia storytelling = engagement

Friday, September 11th, 2009 Reading Henry Jenkins latest post I was drawn towards a number of points he raises, I would argue that the contemporary moment of transmedia has heightened our awareness of these earlier moments of authors unfolding stories across media, much as the ...