Archive for the ‘Newspapers’ Category

Its not online or offline, it’s blended reality

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 We acknowledge that digital communication tools, fixed broadband, mobile, convergence, open source, cheap production tools have changed our world. And we have shown that we are reluctantly accepting that by using the word digital ever more frequently. Digital natives vs. digital ...

The media, censorship and democracy in Ecuador, UK, US

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Very relevant article about media and censorship that deals with recent events in Ecuador and Argentina but also relates that perspective to media and democracy in the US and the UK A key point ...reasonable people may differ on what is the ...

Journalism looks like this in the networked society

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 Fascinating piece on the reinvention of journalism. A blended reality approach is absolutely necessary Of course, developing an active social media presence through Twitter and a Facebook Fan Page is critical to developing a readership. But for hyper-local journalists, face-to-face community ...

What do magazines look like?

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Dear Rupert Murdoch, a lesson in networked media creation

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Tom Taylor gave a presentation at the Do Lectures, Printing newspapers, hacking analogue technology and connecting into the this wired up world was powerful stuff, and resonated with my talk which argued that we need to use a new language ...

Ahem google in case you don’t know sharing drives commerce

Saturday, December 5th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4768" align="aligncenter" width="379" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16230215@N08/4066005402"][/caption] WHY is Google winning? And what does it tell us about the future?A fortnight ago, Rupert Murdoch told Australian Sky that he would stop Google from indexing all of his content, preventing it from becoming a ...

Murdoch, news, the truth and something inbetween

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 Jay Rosen pointed to this on twitter - a great article about Rupert Murdoch, When Rupert Murdoch speaks, he's either lying or filibustering. The only sensible time to listen for him is when he's running silent. I agree with everything that Jack ...

SMLXL: business and communications innovation

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 I am often asked what we do @ SMLXL here's a film that provides a brief overview of the SMLXL philosophy, and some examples of the type of work and projects we have undertaken over the last few years. From Interruption ...

A reality check for augmented reality

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 After posting about mobile augmented reality here and here I came across an article in New Scientist I disagree, with the wobbly start headline, but I liked the reality check. Something that was reinforced recently by AR specialist Robert Rice, he ...

Falling out of love with mainstream media?

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 As we often argue, without trust you are nothing in this world. Now that has always been the case its just in the networked society the stakes are just that little more higher. Nearly two-thirds — 63 percent — of Americans ...