Category: media
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Post Of The Month – October 2013 – Nominations
Time to nominate the best posts that you have read in the month of October for Post Of The Month. As usual I have a starting list below. This month you'll see I've combined three posts into one nomination – its unusual for me to do this but I think it makes more sense in…
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Google Firestarters 10: Planning For Good – The Event
//instagram.com/p/ffsOzAIuC3 Last week saw our tenth Google Firestarters event. I can hardly believe it's been over two years since we had our first event. Since then we've built some pretty significant momentum, had some amazing and thought provoking talks (too many to mention individually) and a real sense of community has built around the events…
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Post Of The Month – September 2013 – The Winner
A strong performance in this month's vote from Patricia McDonald's post on Why Big is Still Beautiful, but there was a clear winner in the end. So well done to Murat Mutlu, whose excellent post on why talented creatives are leaving (some) agencies won through. Murat is entered into the hall of fame and my…
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Post Of The Month – September 2013 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Why Talented Creatives are Leaving Your Sh***y Agency by Murat Mutlu Why Big is Still Beautiful from Patricia McDonald The Stacks, The Patterns and The Money by Matt Locke A Few Things I Learned Working in Agencies from Andrew Hovells How I Failed by Tim O'Reilly And you…
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Post Of The Month – September 2013 – Nominations
Time to open up nominations for September Post of the Month. Some good reads again this month so I have my usual starting list below, but please do add to these in the comments with any posts that you thought were particularly good and that were posted in that month. Once I have a good…
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What Makes Quartz So Innovative?
My obsession with Quartz continues. Thanks to Phil for pointing at this MondayNote analysis (the first in a two-parter) into their more 'digitally native' editorial practices. Quartz is interesting as an examplar of what the piece calls "the emergence of a new breed of smaller, digital-only outlets that are closing the gap, quality-wise, with legacy media".…
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Doing a Snowfall
The kind of richly designed multimedia article formats that I wrote about here have become quite the thing. Just check out this already lengthy and ever expanding open list of Snowfall-like features that typically use combinations of infinite and/or parallax scrolling, and text set against large images and cleverly integrated with other formats including audio…
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Google Firestarters 10: Planning For Good
We’ve never been afraid to tackle the big questions with Google Firestarters and for our tenth (crikey, tenth!) event we shall be addressing perhaps our most challenging yet: How can planning and marketing be more of a force for good? Is it realistic to believe that purpose beyond profit and social change can be embedded into the…
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The Value In Implicit Data
It was interesting to read about the new 8-strong Artificial Intelligence team at Facebook applying so-called 'deep-learning' techniques which apparently use simulated networks of brain cells, or the equivalent of 'neural nets', to process data. The application of these kinds of techniques can take machine learning beyond simpler explicit forms of data (like metadata or…
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Quartz – Email As Front Page
The shifting models in publishing continue to be fascinating. Buzzfeed, who base their approach on a ruthless focus on the spreadability of content recently announced that they'd surpassed 85 million unique visitors in August (3 times bigger than they were a year ago). Then there's Quartz, which has been growing rapidly over the past year. There's…