Category: media
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E-Paper (2)
Regular readers will know I've long been following the development of e-paper. Until recently it's been in very much in beta – an interesting but slightly clunky interface that has slowly been developing in usability and application. But I think it's just turned a big corner. Early next year, Plastic Logic, a company that was…
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E-Paper
I've been following the development of e-paper for some time. It's story has been one of slowly emerging promise but more recently it's taken several interesting leaps forward. Use of sophisticated plastics to make flexible displays like the bracelet media player pictured below are rapidly making e-paper look more like the kind of thin, flexible…
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The Art Of Media
Media – it's all about the numbers, right? Accountability, reach, frequency, coverage, weight, strike rate, ratings, spots, eyeballs, impressions, click-throughs. If you like soup, there's always a good soup of numbers surrounding media you can drown in. And digital just compounds this. Numbers are important – they show what works, they create standards, they are…
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Interesting Snippet
I like this from Lynette Webb (who works at Google). Seems to be in tune with a lot of what I've been saying recently. About how people's relationship with content is changing for good. And that's all forms of content, not just news provision. If you haven't seen Lynette's Interesting Snippets it's well worth a…
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Disarming Britain
I saw this for the first time this morning. It’s the full length version of the promotional film produced by Channel 4 to support their ‘Disarming Britain‘ series of programmes which begins on 30th June. Bravo is all I can say.
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The Cloud
Boy the world is changing fast. A couple of months ago I wrote about distributed computing models (so called Cloud Computing). Amazon are very serious about it, and at the beginning of the month Google and IBM announced a partnership to deliver massively scalable networked cloud services. Initiated by an informal call from Sam to…
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Blended Measurement
Online is sometimes a victim of it's own accountability. It can be hard to navigate in a blizzard of metrics, and putting measures against social media is even tougher. In the old world, our measures were constant, controlled, fixed, familiar, steady. Social media is fluid, moving, changeable, unexpected. Campaigns used to be nicely packaged entities.…
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New Journalism
Image courtesy The web works in such counter-intuitive ways to traditional media that everyone has to get used to new ways of doing things. Take journalists. They once enjoyed a gloriously monopolistic approach to distributing news and content but are developing the understanding that their role is changing rapidly and that they are no longer…