The Communication Ideal
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Books, Broadcast, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Research, Ethics, Generation C, Law, Marketing, Mobile, Music, Networks, Participation, Society, Strategy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »I met Jonathan MacDonald whilst working on the launch of Blyk last year. You might say it was love at first sight. I can remember on one occassion a particuarly charged group meeting, with J-Mac sitting on my shoulder egging me ...
The future of intellectual property on the Internet
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Posted in Darwin, Ethics, Law, Media, Trends | No Comments »The data flow wars [2]
Friday, July 4th, 2008 Posted in Ethics, Law, Media, Web/Tech | No Comments »In my post The data flow wars I wrote ...data, and the extraction and refining of that data to support commercial communications is about to become mainstream - this new currency will becme the black gold of the 21st ...
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 | 1 Comment »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 ...
The Experts vs. the Amateurs
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | 2 Comments »An interesting debate this one. A tug of war over the future of media may be brewing between so-called user-generated content -- including amateurs who produce blogs, video and audio for public consumption -- and professional journalists, movie makers ...
1968 and all that
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Posted in Culture, Generation C, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Television, Trends | 3 Comments »In my speeches that I give, I often refer to how societies values change as the economy of that society develops. 1968 was a big year - the Paris Riots, Berlin, Prague, Chicago, Rome, Mexico City and even London. I ...
New Media and the Creative Industries In the UK
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Economics, Education, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Networks, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Television, Trends, Web/Tech, iPTV | 3 Comments »The Culture, Media and Sport Committee report Opening paragraph of summary The pace of change is so rapid that solutions to some of the problems that we sought to address have already begun to emerge. However, at the ...
Scaling the database wall in the age of engagement
Monday, December 17th, 2007 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Law, Media, Mobile, Networks, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Nice bit of thinking from Dave Winer in Amazon removes the database scaling wall Today, when a company raises VC, it's probably because their app has achieved a certain amount of success and to get to the ...
Corporate Ownership of Mass Media Degrades News
Sunday, December 16th, 2007 Posted in Culture, Ethics, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Society | 1 Comment »The U.S. mass media ?is controlled by a handful of very large companies? such as General Electric, Disney, Westinghouse, CBS and Fox that ?are under very strong pressure to make a lot of money? and do so ...
Its broadcasting but not as we know it. Nordic Broadcasting Summit
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Law, Media, Mobile, News, Strategy, Television, Web/Tech, iPTV | No Comments »John Ranelagh VP at TV2 Norway, was in touch recently after reading our book and asked me if I would work with him to co-ordinate a day in which we could bring together some very interesting people to look at ...
