Archive for the ‘Television’ Category

BBC abusing the trust of its stakeholders

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Nothing matters more than trust and fair dealing with our audiencesSaid Mark Thompson Director General of the BBC referring to the scandalous exposure of the phone in and voting scandal initated by that old favourite ...

Communities Dominate Politics

Monday, July 9th, 2007I was asked recently "what comes after Communities Dominate Brands?" and I answered Communities Dominate Politics.No more is this clearly demonstrated than perhaps in the US, although Gordon Brown seems to understand that giving up control is a way, is ...

The death of Public Service Broadcast

Sunday, December 24th, 2006Regulator presses on with plan for new digital operatorOfcom chief executive Ed Richards yesterday vowed to press ahead with plans for a "public service publisher" - a new digital operator - to compete with the BBC and ...

Experience, media and engagement in the networked economy

Friday, December 8th, 2006The Financial Times reports that BSkyB and Google have agreed an advertising alliance. Well documented in the pressThe partnership will at first see Google provide its user-generated video, e-mail, search and targeted advertising tools to customers of BSkyB?s ...

The revolution of the connectedness of all media

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006[caption id="attachment_3249" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="French Revolution - Delecroix"][/caption]The day before his James Murdoch's Barcelona trip, he warned the Interactive Advertising Bureau that advertisers were not grasping the opportunity of new technology by treating the Internet as a separate marketplace. "This ...

The tagged, described, organised, discovered, linked economy

Friday, November 24th, 2006Every day we collect 10,000 gestures for videos outside Dabble and 10,000 within Dabble. Let's say 5 percent of the videos we are getting every day have some gestures associated with them. [ed's note: each video can have ...

Opening Pandora’s Box

Monday, November 20th, 2006[caption id="attachment_3150" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Pandora's Box"][/caption]New Media likely to play a crucial role in French poll Financial Times 18 November 2006A furious row that erupted this week over the posting of an unauthorised video of Ségolene Royal on ...

Is British Television at a tipping point?

Sunday, November 12th, 2006Powerful comment from Will Hutton... British TV must be saved for the nationBritish television is at a tipping point. Every night, our screens are filled with programmes that represent two conflicting traditions. On the one hand, we see ...

An archive moment – Tomorrow’s World

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006I was sorting out the office today and throwing away a load of papers.And I came across an article from 2001 - entitled Tomorrow's World. What will television schedules look like 10 years from now? Will we all be ...

Video online and networked

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006Light hearted, insightful, usefulForcing media to changeI love change. It's sometimes frustrating, but it's a fact of life in business - change or die. With lots of young, talented, caffeine-filled programmers cranking out daily updates, the landscape has changed ...

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