Powerful structures for product-driven organisations
There's an interesting story being reported about a Pennsylvania mother called Stephanie Lenz who received a letter from Universal Music because a clip she uploaded to YouTube had a prince song in the background ('Let's go crazy'). The clip is 29 seconds long, of very poor quality, and the song in the background is barely audible. However… Continue reading Let’s not go crazy
The whole phrase is 'Now we know what the future looks like, what would we like to do with it?' For the second post in a row I'm afraid I'm in a rather idealistic mood. But it seems to me, now, that we look at the structure of business and marketing as it's being done… Continue reading Now we know what the future looks like
I know it's a sort of liberal utopian wet dream and I keep going on about it, but a number of things today have pushed me towards the view that our future will move significantly away from mass media, and that the change will happen much faster than most people currently expect. Indeed, the speed… Continue reading The life of Riley
Damien Mulley is a fabulous Irish blogger who came over to London to attend Interesting 2008 recently. On his way there, he stopped off at Conchango (where I work) to talk to us about the effect blogging was having on newspapers in Ireland. It was an interesting presentation, although - for me at least - the most… Continue reading Dead bloggers’ society
Ken Robinson (presenter of the excellent TED talk 'Do schools kill creativity') has recently appeared onto the web in another presentation at London's RSA on how paradigms need to change in education to keep up with the changing circumstances we face in society. (It's a long talk at 55 minutes but well worth setting aside the time). This… Continue reading Taught out
Just a few more thoughts on yesterday's Interesting 2008. The more I think back to it, the more it feels as if there was a bit of a weird 'otherness' to the day. Almost like a kind of mass hallucination or mass hypnosis. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Russell Davies is running… Continue reading A bit more (on) interesting
Today was interesting. It was Interesting 2008, the Russell Davies 'unconference'; in its second year and continuing rude health. The underlying thought appears to be the same: the first step in being interesting is being interested. Accordingly a very large bunch (maybe 400) cogniscati gathered in an incredible (and extremely well buntinged) hall – Conway… Continue reading A little bit (of) interesting
An interesting comment on the last post came back to a topic which I seem to be asked, or ask myself, more and more often. If social media increasingly leads to closed groups, and tomorrow's media consumers are increasingly avoiding the mass media, what will happen to mass-participation media events, and don't we as a culture lose… Continue reading No one to hear you scream
I wrote a piece a few weeks ago called 'the structure of advertising revolutions'. That was all about the way in which we should expect the advertising world to deal with changing paradigms, based on how the scientific community does. It was inspired by Clay Shirky's video, blog and book, pointing out that the new… Continue reading The implication of advertising revolutions
Remember the first website you built. I remember doing them at university a bit but they were really awful. And then I did one for the company I worked in. And then, rather suddenly I was running a company that made them. And in the start people would argue about everything. Should there be persistent… Continue reading Ins and outs – a redefinition of digital marketing
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