Month: November 2009

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    Living In Streams

      This presentation, about information flow through networked media by Danah Boyd at the Web 2.0 Expo, is so rich with challenging thinking it's difficult to know where to start. The best place is probably to go read it yourself, but I'm writing it up here if for no other reason than to help me…

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    Remembering To Forget

    I went to a talk by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger at the RSA yesterday about his new book – 'Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting In The Digital Age'. The talk focused on how the digital age is one of perfect remembering. A characteristic that empowers, but which can also have unforeseen consequences. Once it's on the web…

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    Convenience And Experience

    There's a pretty insightful but controversial column written by David Hepworth in the latest issue of The Word suggesting that in spite of all the hype, the current crop of e-readers ain't all that. And he gives some compelling, human-centred arguments why not. E-readers are of-course, full of promise – we love new gadgets, and…

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    Farming On Facebook

      So, gaming is huge. $50Bn huge. And it just gets bigger. This week's release of Modern Warfare 2 sold almost 5m copies (or $310m dollars worth) on it's first day. The producers are saying that it's the biggest entertainment launch of all time. But apart from MW2, the big story this week was about…

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    The Socialisation Of TV

    Predicting the future of media is a bit like herding cats but like Faris, I believe that a key trend for communications is/will be the socialisation of 'mainstream' media. Simon wrote a rationally-minded post last week with 5 predictions about the future of TV including how the majority of viewing will remain passively consumed, linear-scheduled…

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    Post Of The Month – October ’09 – The Winner

      Well, this months vote rather turned into an AKQA / BBH face off but after a spirited race I'm delighted to announce that the winner of Post Of The Month for October '09 is Ben Malbon and Greg Anderson for their post on Adaptive Brand Marketing for BBH Labs. Well done both. You get…

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    Post Of The Month – October ’09 – The Vote

    Thanks everyone for some great nominations this month. Couple of notes:- thanks very much to Michael for nominating one of my posts, but I've not included it in the shortlist this month solely because we had such a long list of nominations – this is not done out of false modesty, but only because I'd…

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    Post Of The Month – October ’09 – Nominations

      More great reading to be had in the month of October, evidenced by my starting five nominations below – please do nominate any good posts that you've read that were posted in October in the comments and I'll stick them all up for a vote in a few days. A nomination from Charles (thanks…

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    Making Content Pay

    "We're not going from a world of Business Model A to one of Business Model B, we're going from Business Model A to Business Models A to Z." Clay Shirky Every now and then you read a post that really stays with you. In early January last year, Ian Rogers (ex Head of Music at…

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