Archive for the ‘7th Mass Media’ Category

Lord Carter and the networked society

Monday, February 23rd, 2009I suppose Lord Carter thinks peer-to-peer networking is him having a chat with Lord Mandelson in the back of the ministerial limo.Insightful, visionary, implicit knowledge articulated as a piece of poetry.Johnny Moore nice one.I think this is in response to ...

The myth of Japan and mobile useage

Friday, February 6th, 2009Lars Ishii-Cosh a good friend of mine who runs Wireless Watch Japan amongst other things, makes in my view some very interesting observations about mobile useage in that country.And in so doing explodes some myths in the process.The urban legend ...

Mobile and the survelliance society

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Stephen Fry, talked about the survelliance society in one of his podgrams as being a better phraseology to describe our CCTV cultre. Shortening it to SS.I have written a number of papers (The black gold of the 21st Century and ...

When technology succeeds it becomes invisible

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009I often make the point when I am addressing an audience that when technology really succeeds it becomes invisible. Observing that most people in the room are writing with pens and paper - I point to their paper notepads and ...

The Johnston Press – it did not have to be this way

Monday, December 15th, 2008The lack of an effective digital strategy, few apparent plans aside from further cost cuts, and concerns over refinancing debt are the main reasons cited for the share price collapse.Writes the Sunday HeraldAnd of course the banking collapse and its ...

Use the source Barack use the source

Monday, December 8th, 2008The open source force behind the Obama campaignA great post on Barack's campaign for the presidency which compliments some posts I have writtenSince the dawn of mass media, the most obvious activity of political campaigns — especially presidential ones — ...

The glittering allure of the mobile society

Thursday, December 4th, 2008[caption id="attachment_2644" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image: Scott Beale @ laughingsquid.com"][/caption]In February of this year I found myself on a cold and rainy day in Evian, at the behest of Microsoft at an international summit for CIO’s to give the final keynote ...

The numerati make an appointment with your data

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008Marcus Sautoy writes can you predict what the next numbers will be in each of these strings of digits? 123454321234543212... 11235813213455... 993751058209749... The answer?The first sequence has a clear rhythm to it. The second is a little more tricky, but look closely and you ...

The Communication Ideal

Thursday, November 20th, 2008I met Jonathan MacDonald whilst working on the launch of Blyk last year. You might say it was love at first sight.I can remember on one occassion a particuarly charged group meeting, with J-Mac sitting on my shoulder egging me ...

How social analytics benefits consumers

Friday, November 7th, 2008[caption id="attachment_793" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The complexity and beauty of social network theory"][/caption] Using new social tools, consumers can decide, what information they want to reveal to the advertisers and what to keep private. For marketers and advertisers, this is a unique ...

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