Category: media
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With Great Data Comes Great Responsibility
I got back from holiday yesterday in time to witness the kerfuffle about Facebook's psychological newsfeed experiment (HT to this Quartz piece for the title to this post) which was a timely reminder of the sensitivities around the power that reach and data enable. The reality of-course is that most people have no idea about…
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Post Of The Month – May 2014 – The Winner
Delighted to say that the winner of this month's Post of the Month vote is Phil Adams, with his excellent piece on the many voices of planning. So well done to Phil. His post is entered into the hall of fame. Thanks as always to everyone for taking part.
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Post Of The Month – May 2014 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations for this months vote. So our shortlist is: The Case Against Sharing by Susie Cagle The Many Voices of Planning by Phil Adams How We Slowed Down the Connection Between Consumers and Creatives from Richard Huntingdon Deep Learning Business Models from Beau Cronin Everyone is Doing Strategy Right Now by Leisa Reichelt Advertisers and…
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Post Of The Month – May 2014 – Nominations
It's time to open up nominations for Post of the Month so if there are any posts that you've read and particularly liked and that were posted in May, please do nominate them either direct or by leaving a comment below. As always, I have a short starting list below but please add to these…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: An exceptional and very moving talk from writer Andrew Solomon (above) on how the worst moments in our lives make us who we are An antidote to the hype around the so-called 'sharing economy': The case against sharing “It turns out the Internet, like every other technology, doesn’t trend toward good or…
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Beyond Snowfall
Craig Mod has another excellent essay on interactive storytelling at the New York Times which (post the innovation report) makes a great point about the role that Snowfall has played: 'When we explore new ground (or re-explore old ground, forgotten ground) in new mediums, we often find it necessary to swing the design and…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourites from this week, curated by Fraggl: “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light”. Stanley Kubrick on why life is worth living An interesting talk from Tom Chatfield on the role of games in the workplace and the value of people at play I enjoyed this article on myths about Apple design, from an ex Apple designer.…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: An unusually good native advertising execution from Wired in the form of a Netflix sponsored feature (above) on the state of TV, authored by (friend of ODF) Grant McCracken. For a counterpoint to the hype around native advertising, Andrew Sullivan (of The Dish) had some forthright…
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On Social Media ‘Command Centres’
I've had a bit of a rant before about some of the language we use in our industry (particularly the military analogies). But one increasingly common phrase that still bemuses me somewhat is 'Social Media Command Centre'. For all the talk about social media being the great leveller, the egalitarian, democratic, more human face of…