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 ...
Evolution of SMLXL
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Books, Broadcast, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Education, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Generation C, Government & Politics, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Networks, News, Newspapers, Participation, Philosophy, Politics, Retail, Science, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs, iPTV | No Comments »In 2002, I founded a company called SMLXL - short for Small Medium Large XtraLarge. Its focus was and still is - how do businesses and organisations meaningfully engage in a commercial or social agenda with their audiences. We were some ...
Classical Music - that was so yesterday
Sunday, January 20th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Music, Networks, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Trends, Web/Tech | 2 Comments »Oh no its not - I came across a New Yorker article by the esteemed Alex Ross - who writes a blog The Rest is Noise And he writes about how the blogosphere has helped drive a renewed interest ...
Why Console Games will be bigger than Rock’n'Roll
Sunday, January 13th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Gaming, Media, Music, Participation, Society, Web/Tech | No Comments »Commissioned by Youth Music and written by Andrew Missingham, this report has sought out young people?s views about music-games, and aims to provide an insight into how music-games may develop and how the music sector could make the most of ...
Kids and the future of media
Monday, January 7th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Music, Newspapers, Philosophy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »In his post What My Kids Tell Me About The Future of Media We get simple but useful insight into children, their media consumption and what they mean for us. OUr VC writes I was reading a ...
Doohh
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Distribution, Economics, Generation C, Media, Music, Social Networks, Trends, Web/Tech | 2 Comments »I am a big fan of John Naughton who writes for the Observer, he is also a founder of Cambridge Visual Networks His musings on out digital world I always find inspiring. His latest outing last Sunday really ...
Radiohead embraces the digital age - Part 2
Sunday, December 9th, 2007 Posted in Culture, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Music, Trends, Web/Tech | 2 Comments »The Internet had already witnessed much of the gestation of ?In Rainbows,? as Radiohead tested songs in public, knowing they would be bootlegged immediately. ?The first time we ever did ?All I Need,? boom! It was up on ...
A trip down memory lane
Saturday, November 17th, 2007 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Mobile, Music, Networks, Philosophy, Society, Web/Tech | No Comments »Funny when you write words they feel so different. It's so easy to say "A trip down memory lane" When you write it, one wonders where such a term came from? Alan Fletcher once wrote "with a clich? you stroke it until ...
From Scarcity to Plenty : The Principles of Community Digital Economics. Start with a Laugh and Work Backwards
Thursday, November 15th, 2007 Posted in Citizen journalism, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Music, News, Newspapers, Participation, Social Networks, Strategy | 1 Comment »So today I fly home from Tokyo, and I am rifling through my paper stack of tear sheets. Old habits die hard. As my friend once said I was born a digital immigrant but I don't speak with much of an ...
Swedish Post: Smart Communications
Friday, November 9th, 2007 Posted in Music, News | No Comments »Yesterday I was in Stockholm speaking at the Swedish Posts last event on Smart Communication. It was good being back in Stockholm, and it was great to take people through my Old World New World presentation, and then be ...
