Archive for the ‘Distribution’ Category

Mandleson, ethics, culture, commerce and copyright law

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4715" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="The architecture of authority (photograph Richard Ross)"][/caption] Just as the leaks predicted, the UK government has offered up its Digital Economy Bill, which includes massive changes to copyright law, including the power of the government to effectively ...

When data flows things happen

Friday, November 20th, 2009 A cartographer out and about while mapping for the Ordnance Survey The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April, in a victory for the Guardian's three-year Free Our Data campaign. The move ...

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 ...

Navigating in the networked society

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

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, ...

The quiet revolution of cooperation

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4624" align="aligncenter" width="258" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20237352@N00/4002179056"][/caption] America is in the midst of a new revolution. But this revolution is quiet, incremental, nonviolent, and traveling beneath the mainstream media's radar. The new American revolution challenges the current notions of dog-eat-dog capitalism—through the building ...

Music + emotion + context + discovery = networked economics [2]

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 SoundCloud is fast becoming the preferred streaming host for big name musicians writes Chris Salmon. Moby is using it to air his new album. Sound cloud allows people to listen and comment to the track but also specific parts of ...

Music + emotion + context + discovery = networked economics

Friday, October 30th, 2009 The interest in both the prospect of Beatles downloads and the big sales of their re-released CDs highlights an increasingly important back-catalogue business within the embattled music industry. Struggling to earn money on new artists, record labels are mining their ...

African film and networked economics

Friday, October 30th, 2009 The African Film Library is an initiative showcasing the best of the African film industry – making the movies easily accessible for movie aficionados around the world. The African film industry is one of the oldest – with its roots in ...

mobile marketing and communications training day

Friday, October 16th, 2009 Don't forget to book your place @ Mobile: My Remote Control for Life 28th October 2009 What are the deliverables of our mobile marketing day? 1.Achieve a comprehensive understanding of how to drive business success – by better understanding; the logic ...