Archive for the ‘Convergence’ Category

Dear Rupert Murdoch, a lesson in networked media creation

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009Tom Taylor gave a presentation at the Do Lectures, Printing newspapers, hacking analogue technology and connecting into the this wired up world was powerful stuff, and resonated with my talk which argued that we need to use a new language ...

Humanity does not follow the straight line rule

Sunday, December 6th, 2009Jane Young has put together a very easy to understand set of thoughts that go to the very heart of of my current work. The communications revolution driven by a fundamental human need to connect and collaborate, and what that ...

Ahem google in case you don’t know sharing drives commerce

Saturday, December 5th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4768" align="aligncenter" width="379" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16230215@N08/4066005402"][/caption]WHY is Google winning? And what does it tell us about the future?A fortnight ago, Rupert Murdoch told Australian Sky that he would stop Google from indexing all of his content, preventing it from becoming a ...

SoftBank Mobile – Not Your Typical Telco Operator

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009As a result of a recent conversation with Alan he kindly invited me, in an evil 'dare ya' challenge sorta way, to submit this post focused on what I had casually called a unique operator approach by SoftBank Mobile here ...

Local Motors: a business model of our times

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009[caption id="attachment_4729" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Local Motors: the car the people built Online and Offline"][/caption]Recently I wrote a series of posts called Commonwealth in the Networked Society. There was one on Big Pharma and open source, one on open source mobility ...

The new rules of customer engagement

Friday, November 13th, 2009I have been asked to make a presentation about the New Rules of Customer Engagement Monday 16th November organised by Canvas8 and takes place in the offices of the architects BDP. You can find out more information here.Also on the ...

Piracy thrives because it meets an unmet demand

Thursday, November 12th, 2009The Economist writesthere 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 ...

Transparency and the web a rolling debate

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

Networked organisations: the starfish revolution

Thursday, November 12th, 2009Samples from Smartmobs and orginated by Michael LeedenSeveral 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 ...

Murdoch, news, the truth and something inbetween

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Jay 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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