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No dead trees

Since the beginning of the year I have been running an experiment to see if I can consume all my print media digitally. That means only buying Kindle books and getting my morning news fix exclusively on one of my tablets or my phone.

So far, with two caveats that I will return to, [...]

February 3rd, 2012 | Category: New Media | 5 comments

Social media, a powerful force for good

Every so often I feel the need to write a post about the democratising effect that social media is having on the world, and on the back of what has happened in Egypt over the last week or two I want to write one today.  For the first time since the industrial revolution just [...]

February 11th, 2011 | Category: New Media, Social networks | One comment

Some emails are more equal than others

You might have seen the news today that Google launched a priority email feature within Gmail.  I am still using Microsoft Exchange for the vast bulk of my emails so I haven’t been able to experience the power of Google’s offering myself, but Jason Kincaid on Techcrunch thinks ‘it’s fantastic’.

This is a feature I [...]

August 31st, 2010 | Category: Content, New Media, Social networks | Leave a comment

The last flourishes of physical media

Earlier this week the Beatles back catalogue was released to huge success and the Beatles Rock Band game became the talk of the town.  Then today I read about Microsoft and Tesco teaming up to offer free online only content to people who buy physical DVDs.

To me these are little [...]

September 11th, 2009 | Category: Content, New Media | Leave a comment

Big companies get blind spots – which make space for startups

It is often the case that large companies and even whole industries lose touch with what it is that their customers like about them.  When this happens they often develop their own incorrect hypotheses about what it is that their public like (or should like), and then when they see startups beginning to take [...]

May 19th, 2009 | Category: Content, Mobile, New Media | 13 comments

Newspaper transition to digital

There are a couple of interesting posts on this topic this morning.

First paidcontent reports the following: John Ridding, CEO of the Financial Times and FT.com, says his business makes 20 percent of revenue from online Tim Brooks, MD of Guardian News and Media, paidContent:UK’s parent company, said it was 15 percent for [...]

March 10th, 2009 | Category: Business models, Content, free, New Media | 10 comments

A reminder: We are part way through a social revolution

I just watched all 55 minutes of this video from digital anthropologist Michael Wesch and it is awesome (you may have seen his earlier Information R/evolution). I don’t think I have ever sat through 55 mins of a YouTube video before. I love this one for the way it captures the hope, passion, excitement [...]

July 31st, 2008 | Category: New Media, Social networks, Video | 11 comments

The history of media tells us the web will change the world profoundly

I am reading Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody and the following passages are stand out reminders of the scale of the revolution we are living through. We are living in the middle of the largest increase in expressive capability in the history of the human race. More people can communicate more things to more [...]

May 22nd, 2008 | Category: New Media | 15 comments

Content wants to be free

In the internet world content needs to be free. This is a theme I have addressed tangentially from a couple of different angles (e.g. Content atomisation and in-feed monetisation or Free ad-supported music coming closer to reality) but this Guardian piece from Vic Keegan takes it head on from a historical perspective (thanks to [...]

April 9th, 2008 | Category: Music, New Media, News | 4 comments

Twitter is paying my rent…

There is a lot of negative chat about Twitter – broken business model, river of crap etc. etc. so I thought it was interesting to post this excerpt from Twitter is paying my rent over on Marshall Kirkpatrick’s blog:

People laugh at Twitter, and they can go ahead and laugh for all I care, [...]

January 31st, 2008 | Category: Blogging, New Media | 6 comments
 
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