Robert, Flickr and the $235 Paul Smith sweatshirt
Friday, November 7th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Ethics, News, Society | No Comments »In the networked world, the only thing worse than being sampled is not being sampled. said Siva Vaidhyanathan. Which brings us nicely to the story of Robert, Flickr and a Paul Smith sweatshirt costing $235. [caption id="attachment_797" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Robs design compared with ...
ProPublica versus the Grocers
Saturday, October 18th, 2008 Posted in Citizen journalism, Ethics, Government & Politics, Newspapers, Participation, Society, Trends | No Comments »ProPublica.org aims to make up some of the ground lost to journalism by the current crisis of advertising revenues bleeding to the internet. In particular, it seeks to preserve the skills and value of investigative reporting one of the first ...
The bull market for humility
Friday, October 17th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Darwin, Economics, Ethics, Quotes, Society, Trends | No Comments »This disproportionality has been tested to destruction by the recent hysteria of City incomes. The result is that, after a decade of widening wealth differentials, they should start to narrow. Non-economic components of what we vaguely refer to as the good life will take ...
There are more keys on my piano Mr McCain
Friday, October 17th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Ethics, Events, Government & Politics, Quotes, Society | No Comments »I do say that Americans have looked long and hard at the candidates this past month and are now minded to conclude, in the fine phrase used by Garrison Keillor of a speech he heard the young Kennedy give long ago, that Obama ...
Crowdsourcing creates friction
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Ethics, Participation, Social Networks, Trends, Uncategorized, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »Kevin Potts recently did a review/critique of wundersite www.99designs.com - which appears to be a simplified spin of other such sites like Elance and what Kevin calls it’s “malignant brethren”. The site, which uses less than ideal techniques to ...
Getting stuff done - collectively
Saturday, October 4th, 2008 Posted in Engagement Education, Ethics, Social Networks, Society, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »Euan's story about stuff - which arose when we were chatting at the British Museum recently is now a post called Stuff The guts of Euan's post is here, We were each asked to bring to the event 5 things which we ...
The True Promise of the Mobile Society - Access, Communication & Business
Friday, October 3rd, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Mobile, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Networks, Retail, Social Networks, Society, Trends | No Comments »I am speaking at an event in Slovenia in November and I was asked to write something about my presentation. I thought it was worth sharing It is often said that that what works in one country, does not work in ...
You’ve come a long way, but you ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Ethics, Generation C, Media, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Says Vint Cerf in his Op-ed piece about the Internet I have no doubts that its social repercussions will take decades to be fully understood, but it has already done much to benefit the world. It has provided access to information ...
What is advertising?
Friday, August 1st, 2008 Posted in Advertising, CDB, Culture, Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Generation C, Society, Trends | No Comments »Say the word advertising and people will imagine TV spots Bill Boards Classifieds Banner ads Direct Mail and so on. I think these are but the furniture of advertising. Robin Good has made a great post on the Brand Ambassador Robins treatise The brand ambassador is an advertising model ...
Festival - technology and We Media aka social networking
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, CDB, Convergence, Culture, Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Generation C, Mobile, Networks, Participation, Philosophy, Quotes, Social Networks, Society, Trends | No Comments »I am in the process of reading John Thackara's book In the Bubble He writes Throughout the modern age we have subordinated the interests of people to those of technology, an approach that has led to the unthinkable destruction of traditional cultures ...
