The dream of the personal computer aka the world is mobile
Saturday, July 29th, 2006 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Broadcast, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Education, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Generation C, Government & Politics, Health, Marketing, Mobile, Music, Newspapers, Participation, Society, Strategy, Trends | 6 Comments »From the Economist July 29th. On the PC's 25th birthday, The Economist leader article says. The IBM PC helped to democratise computing. Now to finish the job. Merchants in Zambia use mobile phones for banking; farmers in Senegal use them to ...
Citizen Journalism and the new media ecology
Thursday, July 27th, 2006 Posted in Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Media, News, Newspapers, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs | No Comments »Mobile group in talks to create TV link for citizen journalists Citizen journalism is poised to take a great leap into the mainstream media as the mobile phone network 3 pursues talks with ITN and Sky News about feeding clips ...
Blogging the war
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 Posted in Books, Citizen journalism, Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Politics, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Identity, Media, News, Newspapers, Participation, Society, Trends, Weblogs | No Comments »An article today at the wall Street Journal online looks at what are described as Millbloggers or military bloggers [caption id="attachment_2745" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The Blogs of War"][/caption] Cry Bias, and Let Slip the Blogs of War J.P. Borda started a Web ...
What is the future for newspapers?
Thursday, July 13th, 2006 Posted in Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Generation C, Marketing, Media, Networks, News, Newspapers, Participation, Society, Strategy, Trends, Uncategorized, Web/Tech | No Comments »Asks Victor Keegan in Can a crowd really edit our daily paper? One of the most fascinating questions is what, if any, future there is for newspapers as the creative destruction of the internet gathers pace. What is ...
Transparency vs. opacity - hot media vs. cold media
Saturday, July 8th, 2006 Posted in Citizen journalism, Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Politics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Identity, News, Participation, Society, Trends, Weblogs | No Comments »Student blog devoted to G8 summit A group of University of Toronto students will be using blogs to report on this year's G8 summit As they have in past years, students from U of T's G8 Research Group will ...
The social life of news
Monday, June 19th, 2006 Posted in Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Marketing, Media, News, Newspapers, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Jeff Jarvis writes in the Guardian today It takes guts to hand your crown jewels to the future The news story may never be the same. A week ago, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger made quite a stir when he ...
Alan and Shel on the BBC
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006 Posted in Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Marketing, Media, News, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs | 6 Comments »Last week I was a keynote speaker along with Shel Israel of Naked conversations, at the NMK marketing 2.0 - content 2.0 conference. Shel and I - had a head to head conversation about Trust, Communications, and Marketing. It was ...
mobile myspace, and the relationship between brands and communities
Friday, June 2nd, 2006 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Data, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Generation C, Identity, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Networks, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends | 2 Comments »So here's a surprise the action on the MySpace music channel outpaces the other online music venues. According to Jupiter Research, the rambunctious and infectious community action on MySpace Music exceeds Yahoo Music, AOL Music, and MTV.com. In fact, ...
Paradigm shift
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006 Posted in Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Identity, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Networks, Participation, Philosophy, Science, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Television, Trends, Virtual Worlds, Web/Tech, Weblogs | No Comments »I have been thinking about the issues surrounding commons based peer-to-peer flows of communication. Something that I blogged about last year within the context of JD Lasica's book Darknet: Hollywoods war on the digital generation And ...
The erosion of trust in a post modern world
Friday, March 31st, 2006 Posted in Advertising, Broadcast, Citizen journalism, Culture, Darwin, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Marketing, Media, Newspapers, Society, Strategy, Television, Trends | No Comments »The economic survey is undertaking tracking research on trust via the World Economic Forum Full Survey: Trust in Governments, Corporations and Global Institutions Continues to Decline Since signaling the importance of trust in world affairs, the World Economic Forum has been ...
