Archive for the ‘Television’ Category

Alan Moore speaking @ sxsw 2010

Monday, January 11th, 2010 This weekend I was invited to give a keynote @ sxsw 2010 based upon my submission in August last year. (watch the 2.5 minute film) The topic is Straight Line Thinking Stops Here, something that I covered at The Do Lectures ...

Networked television – we’ve only just begun

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 Sang the Carpenters, all those years ago. The next decade will see the continuing transformation of television, with video becoming more personal and democratic as new networks subvert and transcend the broadcast model. Dr William Cooper of the convergent communications consultancy ...

Alice Taylor a Doer speaks @ Do

Sunday, December 20th, 2009 Alice Taylor commissions cross-platform educational content for 14-19 year olds, aiming to get useful, life-helpful information to teens via their most favoured platforms and formats. She specializes in videogames and virtual worlds, and Channel 4 Education’s 2009 slate includes Routes, ...

What has happened to creativity?

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Something has happened to Britain's creative community and there's no better way to understand this than to go back to a speech that Graham Greene, one of the most admired novelists of his day, gave in Germany in 1969 "on ...

Mandleson, ethics, culture, commerce and copyright law

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4715" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="The architecture of authority (photograph Richard Ross)"][/caption] Just as the leaks predicted, the UK government has offered up its Digital Economy Bill, which includes massive changes to copyright law, including the power of the government to effectively ...

The end of TV as we know it: hyperland

Friday, October 9th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4521" align="aligncenter" width="413" caption="TV the culture hearth of the family home?"][/caption] If found this post over at Russell Davies's gaff online. Russell has such a lovely turn of phrase dontchya think? Although as someone also said to me. 'sometimes Alan ...

Communities Dominate Brands – prescient

Saturday, August 1st, 2009 Tim Harrap in a twitter post mentioned a conversation @ Marketing in Australia that identifies Communities Dominate Brands as being – prescient. We have become linked to what is now commonly called Social Media - thought I still prefer the ...

Digital Britain loses the plot

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Recently a conference took place to discuss Lord Carters report on Digital Britain A while ago I asked David Bollier who had worked with the Aspen Institute for 15 years to help draft a response to the Digital Britain report - ...

television channels are history

Monday, July 27th, 2009 says Time Berners Lee The man credited with creating the web says that television channels will be history and that the internet should be able to offer a random access library of anything that has ever been broadcast. Twenty years after ...

Creating economic value in; content, social communication and Mobility

Friday, March 27th, 2009 Was the guts of Gerd Leonhards presentation at the Nokia Siemens Transformation conference in Cologne this week. Fascinating stuff, and I was very glad that we got to shake hands and have a good chat too. Gerds argument is that the global ...