Archive for the ‘Distribution’ Category

The story of Franny Armstrong

Sunday, March 1st, 2009Franny Armstrong by any measure is an exceptional woman. And Franny had a burning desire to tell a story through a film that to was her, extremely important. That story is called The Age of Stupid, a story about climate ...

The networked society re-boots marketing

Thursday, February 26th, 2009Recently published a new book called Social Media Marketing, that I co-authored with Brian Jacobs, Jouko Ahvenainen and Ajit Joakar. What's it all about?‘Social Media Marketing’ is the start of a conversation about marketing communications using social media forms – ...

Sharing drives economies

Friday, February 6th, 2009The Dutch government, in cooperation with the Dutch research institute TNO, has recently conducted a survey into the economic effects of file sharing on the music industry. The results are quite surprising as they’ve concluded that illegally downloading music (which ...

A short story about a long journey

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Here I am chatting away to David Cushman, talking about the things that are important to me and what I think should be important to anyone interested in creating meaningful communications in today's world of No Straight Lines.Looks like the ...

Pro-Ams or craftsmen and craftswomen for the 21st Century?

Saturday, January 17th, 2009They call them Pro-Ams - I call them the craftsmen and craftswomen of the 21st CenturySo it is no surprise that we get a story like this one A galaxy of helpful peopleWhich tells the tale of Dr Chris Lintott ...

The holy grail of public service broadcasting

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008well some people might think so?Thompson described "the plan" as "potentially the holy grail of future public service broadcasting provision in the UK"The plan Stan is thisThe BBC said its proposals to share its online and digital technology would provide ...

The future not by TV but by broadband

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008Television cannot deliver a digital society, only broadband can do that. The move to digital broadcasting and to broadband means that media literacy depends on a willingness to embrace new technology. That may be a challenge for many people. Changes ...

TV dramas: a South Korean distribution case study

Monday, December 15th, 2008While 'windowing' as a vehicle for intertemporal price discrimination has been the traditional distribution strategy for TV programs, new digital technologies are calling for new distribution methods. In this study, we examine the changing distribution patterns for TV dramas in ...

The Johnston Press – it did not have to be this way

Monday, December 15th, 2008The lack of an effective digital strategy, few apparent plans aside from further cost cuts, and concerns over refinancing debt are the main reasons cited for the share price collapse.Writes the Sunday HeraldAnd of course the banking collapse and its ...

The craftsman as citizen journalist

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008In the Craftsman by Richard Sennett, he points us to the philosopher Pico della Mirandola, who envisaged Homo Faber to mean "man as his own maker." Richard Lester and Michael Piore describe the process of (meaningful) as communication asFluid, context-dependent, ...

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