Gen C - Don’t live for work
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Generation C, Philosophy, Society, Trends | 2 Comments »Everyone likes to call them Gen Y - Why? as Y stands for nothing much - whereas GenC stands for the Community Generation. Anyway nitpicking over... Teenagers and young adults - the so-called Generation Y - have watched with horror as ...
Gen C - Don’t live for work
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Generation C, Philosophy, Society, Trends | No Comments »Everyone likes to call them Gen Y - Why? as Y stands for nothing much - whereas GenC stands for the Community Generation. Anyway nitpicking over... Teenagers and young adults - the so-called Generation Y - have watched with horror as ...
The advertising arms race in social networks
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Statistics, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »The Stampede For Social Network Dollars Intensifies writes Diane Mermigas The race to monetize and leverage the power of social networks is turning into a stampede, as evidenced by Microsoft?s recently renewed efforts to acquire Facebook in the wake ...
Hollywood goes gaming
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Gaming, Generation C, Participation, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »'Gaming is now a bigger industry than cinema' said Bobbie Johnson And now we find one of Hollywoods finest Steven Speilberg creating a game for the Wii On May 6 Steven Spielberg will release his first collaboration with game publisher ...
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus in the World of Participatory Culture
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Media, Networks, Participation, Quotes, Social Networks, Society, Statistics, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »Clay Shirky writes a very philosophical piece about culture/media and participation I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. ...
TV advertising: moving the deck chairs on the titanic
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »I have been chatting to a few colleagues about metrics in relation to TV and I was pointed to Marketing in the era of accountability Which I would have thought should have been free but there you go. Anyway I ...
The dotcom dinosaurs
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Generation C, Media, Social Networks, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Vic Keegan gives us a glimpse into the world of what comes next after the dotcom dinosaurs have ruled the planet for the last 20 years. Vic writes I don't know whether wigix will be successful or, ...
The data flow wars
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Networks, News, Participation, Philosophy, Quotes, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Trends, Web/Tech, iPTV | 2 Comments »Way back in 2003 Tomi and I started working on a project called Communities Dominate Brands - today the very things that wrote about have become - well mainstream. Its a crowded house these days. So - here's another road-sign for ...
Flow
Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Generation C, Media, Networks, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »I was speaking to a good friend of mine earlier this week about the concept of FLOW It is one of the principles of Engagement Adam asked me where I had got to with the idea of flow - ? ...
The Age of Unreason in the Age of Networks
Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in Citizen journalism, Culture, Generation C, Government & Politics, Humour, Media, News, Social Networks, Society, Television, Trends | 2 Comments »I came across this today A book and idea which requires some reflection anti-rational government is not the product of a Machiavellian plot by ?Washington? but is the inevitable result of ?an overarching crisis of memory and ...
