Category: media
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Post Of The Month – June 2010 – Nominations
Nominations are open for Post Of The Month, so please nominate your favourite posts from the month of June in the comments below. Seems like people have been using their Cognitive Surplus over the past four weeks to write some exceptionally good blog posts so it's been difficult to begin with only a few,…
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The Future Of News – Peak Journalism
"Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism." Clay Shirky According to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Entertainment and Media Outlook (2010 to 2014) another milestone is about to be passed with the internet poised to overtake newspapers as the second-largest U.S. advertising medium by revenue behind television. Contrast that with some bleak but revealing figures from…
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Post Of The Month – May 2010 – The Winner
After a strong showing for Rob, Charles and Ana, we had a runaway winner with Neel Kumar taking this month's plaudits. Well done Neel. You get the props of your blogging peers and are entered into the ThinkTank Hall Of Fame. Thanks again to everyone for taking part and don't forget to bookmark your…
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From Linear to Organic
"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution" Clay Shirky I saw Sir Ken Robinson speak last year in London. It was without exception the best talk I've ever been to. Witty, erudite, fun, insightful and hugely compelling. A version of it has just been posted as a TED talk…
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A Story About The Semantic Web
This is a fascinating 15 minute documentary on the semantic web, notable for its stellar interviewees including Tim Berners-Lee, Clay Shirky, Chris Dixon, David Weinberger, and Nova Spivack. Despite the massive potential behind the huge surfeit of data on the web, we still have to work hard to properly integrate and interpret it. The promise…
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Convergence
I'm giving a keynote at a YouTube event this week and as part of the prep for it I've been thinking about interfaces, prompted in part by John's excellent reviews of the iPad as TV, only more so. The launch of the iPad has already been pretty successful. Carl Howe asserted that, at less than…
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The Digital Universe
So this morning I read some quite astounding figures about the growth of digital content and data. Research by technology consultancy IDC estimates that the 'digital universe' grew by 62% last year to 800,000 petabytes (a petabyte is a million gigabytes). To put that into context, according to The Guardian that's enough to fill 75Bn…