Old media fumbling with new technology
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Education, Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Generation C, Identity, Retail, Society, Television, Uncategorized, Web/Tech, Weblogs, iPhone | No Comments »Old media fumbling with new technology Reports the Sydney Morning Herald. No great shakes in terms of insights for Tomi and me, however - what is interesting is that the thinking is starting to be joined up. Its not just an ...
The social life of news
Monday, June 19th, 2006 Posted in Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Marketing, Media, News, Newspapers, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Jeff Jarvis writes in the Guardian today It takes guts to hand your crown jewels to the future The news story may never be the same. A week ago, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger made quite a stir when he ...
You say Tamaato I say Tomarto
Saturday, June 17th, 2006 Posted in Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Organisations, Generation C, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends | 4 Comments »Harsh Dhundia Muses on Shel Israel and my conversations about communities Harsh says In some ways I agree with Shel...that a community with a need exists first. Then I agree with Alan...that the business that meets the need actually brings the people ...
Griefers beyond the pale and the rise of self government in virtual worlds
Friday, June 16th, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Organisations, Ethics, Gaming, Generation C, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Virtual Worlds, Web/Tech | No Comments »Gamers don't want any more grief was the headline in the Technology Guardian yesterday Players who abuse others in online games may soon be ostracised as virtual communities start to police their own environments Explaining the issue Journalist Martin ...
Mysteries of large distributed systems
Thursday, June 15th, 2006 Posted in Books, Convergence, Culture, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Generation C, Government & Politics, Health, Link Economy, Media, Messaging, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends | 2 Comments »One of the great mysteries of large distributed systems - from communities and organisations to brains and ecosystems - is how globally coherent activity can emerge in the absence of centralised authority or control This is the ...
Alan and Shel on the BBC
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006 Posted in Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Marketing, Media, News, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs | 6 Comments »Last week I was a keynote speaker along with Shel Israel of Naked conversations, at the NMK marketing 2.0 - content 2.0 conference. Shel and I - had a head to head conversation about Trust, Communications, and Marketing. It was ...
Its not the end of economics as we know it…but
Monday, June 5th, 2006 Posted in Books, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Generation C, Government & Politics, Media, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »I am in the middle of reading Yochai Benkler's book The Wealth of Networks. Tons of useful stuff, however, this I found to be interesting, in trying to get companies/ organisations to understand and therefore rethink how they do what ...
mobile myspace, and the relationship between brands and communities
Friday, June 2nd, 2006 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Data, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Generation C, Identity, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Networks, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends | 2 Comments »So here's a surprise the action on the MySpace music channel outpaces the other online music venues. According to Jupiter Research, the rambunctious and infectious community action on MySpace Music exceeds Yahoo Music, AOL Music, and MTV.com. In fact, ...
Viral video and the death of the broadcast casino
Thursday, June 1st, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Identity, Marketing, Media, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »John Gappers article in the FT Broadcasters cannot quarantine the viral video outbreak has been sitting on my paper strewn desk since April 19th. Gapper tells us that the broadcasters lot is not a happy one. The explosion is ...
Digital salvation
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Data, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Link Economy, Marketing, Media, Networks, Newspapers, Search Econmics, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »One tribute that seemed more significant than most as the baton passed last week and the retiring CEO of the Guardian Media Group, owner of The Observer and much else, hailed his newly designated successor. 'This is a first ...
