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 ...
Open Social: Google’s New Social Networking Platform - What Is It And Why It Matters
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Generation C, Media, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | 3 Comments »Robin Good - provides insight into networked API's While social networking giants such as MySpace and Facebook have been building huge online communities by utilizing proprietary approaches and protocols, a new group of companies led by Google ...
Map Making for the Masses
Monday, January 14th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Media, Networks, Social Networks, Trends | No Comments »Mapmaking For The Masses Websites such as Wikimapia and OpenStreetMap are empowering citizens to create a global patchwork of geographic information while Google Earth is encouraging individuals to develop appplications using their own data. ...
A new digital era: predicts Bill Gates
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Generation C, Media, Mobile, Networks, News, Newspapers, Retail, Social Networks, Society, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Funny old world. In CDB we wrote Generation-C stands for the Community Generation. The defining and distinguishing characteristic for Gen-C is the continuous connection to and responding to digital communities. This is very different from any other communities. ...
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 ...
Media - News - Trust - Morality - Ethics and Commerce: Uncomfortable bedfellows
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Networks, Newspapers, Participation, Philosophy, Second Life, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Get your facts straight mate In 1985, when asked whether news organizations "get the facts straight" or are "often inaccurate," 55 percent chose the former option and 34 percent the latter. This past July, when Pew asked ...
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 ...
Analogue = passive
Monday, December 17th, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Engagement Marketing, Media, Networks, Philosophy, Quotes, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »I Don't Want To Consume Media That I Can't Interact With That's the bottom line. When I come into contact with media, I want to do something with it. Tag it, post it, reply to it, comment on it, ...
Personal Curated Consumption @ the BBC
Monday, December 17th, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Networks, Society, Television, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs | 1 Comment »In When push comes to pull. The new economy & culture of networking technology waaaaaaaay back in 2006... I used a phrase curated consumption technology as we argue enables us to connect, work and collaborate ...
The Innovators Dilemma: From the Dark Star to Auntie
Monday, December 17th, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Media, Networks, Web/Tech | No Comments »Six months after leaving Microsoft, BBC future media and technology controller Erik Huggers has blogged on the BBC Internet blog that he actually had to leave Microsoft in order to innovate. Formerly the senior director for Microsoft?s entertainment ...
