Punctuated Equilibrium for the Johnston Press
Friday, May 16th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Media, Newspapers, Participation, Statistics, Strategy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Its 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 wrote Structural or mental ...
From SatNav to SatCom
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Convergence, Economics, Networks, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »The future is already here but its just not evenly distributed is 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 ...
The data flow wars
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Networks, News, Participation, Philosophy, Quotes, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Trends, Web/Tech, iPTV | 1 Comment »Way back in 2003 Tomi and I started working on a project called Communities Dominate Brands - today the very things that wrote about have become - well mainstream. Its a crowded house these days. So - here's another road-sign for ...
Advertising - social media - google and myspace
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Darwin, Economics, News, Social Networks, Trends, Web/Tech | 6 Comments »How google screwed up the myspace deal proclaims Wired. Lots of smart people are trying to figure out how to monetize social networks. It's no easy feat: Even if millions of people log on to Facebook twice ...
How do I reach Jan Chipchase @ Nokia and why is Apple so bad? [2]
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Culture, Mobile, Sociology, Strategy | 1 Comment »I posted on Nokia's ethnographic research and used a Wired article as an example of 2 different ways of approaching product design And David Clark commented Its important to note that Apple doesn't shun user research ...
How do I reach Jan Chipchase @ Nokia and why is Apple so bad?
Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Education, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Travel, Trends, Web/Tech | 4 Comments »If you need to reach Jan Chipchase, the best, and sometimes only, way to get him is on his cellphone. The first time I spoke to him last fall, he was at home in his apartment in Tokyo. ...
Nomadic Generation C in the space of information flows
Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Generation C, Media, Messaging, Mobile, Networks, Social Networks, Society, Statistics, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »In our book - we write The changing of customers habits and behaviours wrought by technology means the old ways just do not work anymore. The crisis of many businesses is the crisis of meaning. Leadership for brands and businesses ...
When Petrabytes seem like kilobytes - what comes next?
Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Sciences, Marketing, Mobile, Networks, Retail, Science, Social Networks, Society, Web/Tech | 5 Comments »Affirmation is a great and positive word and I have been feeling some affirmation recently and here is another small slice The concept of Web 2.0 is a dynamic, user-driven mesh of technologies Absolutely, and Carlota Perez in her book Technological ...
DoubleClicks view of the future
Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Broadcast, Convergence, Economics, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »An interesting and indeed an engaging set of videos which are well worth looking at how media is evolving, how TV and the web will converge, how we will go increasingly mobile, how search and discovery will transform advertising ...
Mind the Gap
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Mobile, Networks, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »Reading Tomi's last post prompted me to think out loud on some broader issues that have been brewing for some time. That thought process relates to the idea of FRICTION - Friction is abrasion, agitation, attrition, ...
