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Piracy thrives because it meets an unmet demand

Thursday, November 12th, 2009 The Economist writes there is growing evidence that the plethora of new services adds up to an attractive alternative to piracy for many (see article). In June a poll of Swedish users of file-sharing software found that 60% had cut back ...

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Posted in: Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Data, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Link Economy, Marketing, Search Econmics, Trends

Transparency and the web a rolling debate

Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Lawrence Lessig raises what will be a increasingly intense debate, and the perils of openness in government If health care reform ever emerges from Congress, it is certain to spread nationally a project to require doctors to reveal to an Internet-linked ...

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Posted in: Convergence, Culture, Data, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Ethics, Government & Politics, Law, Networks, Philosophy, Politics, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends

Networked organisations: the starfish revolution

Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Samples from Smartmobs and orginated by Michael Leeden Several thoughtful people have commented on an unusual element in the Iranian revolutionary movement, aka “The Green Path of Hope.” Although there is a troika (Mousavi, Karroubi and Khatami) that inspires many of ...

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Posted in: Convergence, Culture, Engagement Organisations, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Networks, Participation, Social Networks

Murdoch, news, the truth and something inbetween

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 Jay Rosen pointed to this on twitter - a great article about Rupert Murdoch, When Rupert Murdoch speaks, he's either lying or filibustering. The only sensible time to listen for him is when he's running silent. I agree with everything that Jack ...

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Posted in: Advertising, Convergence, Darwin, Economics, Ethics, Government & Politics, Link Economy, Marketing, Media, Networks, Newspapers, Trends

Humanity a meme/gene machine

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 Copying, with variation and selection. Susan Blackmore gives a highly entertaining presentation. Meme machines and gene machines and Techno-memes is the her passion. She says that we are merging with technology... how far will we converge?

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Posted in: Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Education, Ethics, Health, Identity, Philosophy, Science, Society, Trends

Lessons for brands and media of the 21st Century

Friday, November 6th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4654" align="aligncenter" width="454" caption="FantaLife Beach"][/caption] Getting out of the ad spot into the fabric of peoples lives, requires some rethinking on communication, and the panacea is not "social media". Henry Jenkins in his 8 part investigation into what he and ...

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Posted in: Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Marketing, Media, Networks, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Strategy, Trends, Uncategorized

Navigating in the networked society

Friday, November 6th, 2009 Howard Rheingold gives us a short lesson on how to build aggregated, filtered, personalised information

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Posted in: Convergence, Data, Distribution, Engagement Education, Engagement Organisations, Link Economy, Media, Strategy, Web/Tech

Communication power, who has it?

Thursday, November 5th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4642" align="aligncenter" width="379" caption="Paris riots"][/caption] Well we did say Communities Dominate Brands! In an interview with Henry Jenkins he of Participatory Culture and Convergence Culture and even Transmedia storytelling fame, Maxime Cervulle for Poli, a French magazine of media ...

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Posted in: Convergence, Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Ethics, Health, Identity, Law, Media, Networks, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends

Cultural production in the age of sharing

Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Cory Doctorow, from Boing Boing discusses his latest publishing venture. This is as non-linear as it gets in terms of thinking how business works in this networked wired up world. And fascinatingly enough its all about people, people connecting, information flowing, ...

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