Archive for the ‘Convergence’ Category

Patrick Holden discusses food security @ Do Lectures

Thursday, January 7th, 2010Patrick Holden was brought up in London. He visited a dairy farm near Epping aged five and decided he wanted to milk cows. He studied biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College in 1972 and started a community farm in West Wales ...

Mobile futures

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010I was asked whether I would like to make a few predictions around mobile, networks, commerce and culture by Rudy de Waele. I joined a very interesting collective to share my views and I was fascinated by what everyone of ...

Networked television – we’ve only just begun

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Sang the Carpenters, all those years ago.The next decade will see the continuing transformation of television, with video becoming more personal and democratic as new networks subvert and transcend the broadcast model. Dr William Cooper of the convergent communications consultancy ...

Patrick Dixon on the global economy

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Journalism looks like this in the networked society

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Fascinating piece on the reinvention of journalism.A blended reality approach is absolutely necessaryOf course, developing an active social media presence through Twitter and a Facebook Fan Page is critical to developing a readership. But for hyper-local journalists, face-to-face community ...

What do magazines look like?

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Riversimple: getting from A to Z in the 21st Century

Monday, December 21st, 2009This is a fascinating story about sustainable mobility in the UK - hidden from view seemingly... in Herefordshire. And links in directly with the story of Local Motors (here) and c.mm,n, This business is called Riversimple.Riversimple explainThe Riversimple approach has ...

Alice Taylor a Doer speaks @ Do

Sunday, December 20th, 2009Alice Taylor commissions cross-platform educational content for 14-19 year olds, aiming to get useful, life-helpful information to teens via their most favoured platforms and formats. She specializes in videogames and virtual worlds, and Channel 4 Education’s 2009 slate includes Routes, ...

War * Culture

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Found this on Flickr today[caption id="attachment_4824" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18382722@N00/118539502"][/caption]Each circle represents an individual with an outmodel (M) that represents its individual view of the world (color). The outmodel of each individual is heavily influenced by the outmodels of the individuals ...

What has happened to creativity?

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Something has happened to Britain's creative community and there's no better way to understand this than to go back to a speech that Graham Greene, one of the most admired novelists of his day, gave in Germany in 1969 "on ...

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