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 shock of the old
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Books, Culture, Economics, Philosophy, Society | 2 Comments »The leader in the Observer this weekend on the Hay-on-Wye book festival raised some pertinent points of interest for me. Old technology has a noble history of refusing to die. For decades, vinyl has defied the march ...
The economics of abundance and human behaviour
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in Culture, Economics, Retail, Society, Statistics, Trends | No Comments »What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention. Said the economist Herbert ...
Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Books, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Ethics, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Trends | 2 Comments »Says Stephen A Marglin Economists celebrate the market as a device for regulating human interaction without acknowledging that their enthusiasm depends on a set of half-truths: that individuals are autonomous, self-interested, and rational calculators with unlimited wants and ...
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. ...
Everything’s Not Lost: in the world of traditional media
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Media, Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Print media is struggling with a digital future and are Newspapers embracing the digital age? The New York Times once epitomised all that was great about American newspapers; now it symbolises its industry?s deep malaise. The Grey ...
Everything’s Not Lost: in the world of traditional media
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Media, Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Print media is struggling with a digital future and are Newspapers embracing the digital age? The New York Times once epitomised all that was great about American newspapers; now it symbolises its industry?s deep malaise. The Grey ...
Everything’s Not Lost: in the world of traditional media
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Media, Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Print media is struggling with a digital future and are Newspapers embracing the digital age? The New York Times once epitomised all that was great about American newspapers; now it symbolises its industry?s deep malaise. The Grey ...
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 ...
Gutenberg and Flow
Saturday, April 26th, 2008 Posted in Distribution, Economics, Networks, Society, Statistics, Trends, Web/Tech | 3 Comments »So I posted about Flow and then Gutenberg Of course Gutenberg was the first to unleash the flow of knowledge, ideas and communication. Today the projection looks like this The unleashing of such data flows are the equivalent to ...
