Entries by Ross Dawson

The News Limited perspective on tablet media

I’m at the Woodwing Tour event in Sydney, where Alan Oakley, Group Executive Editor of Digital at News Limited is speaking on the topic of Tablets Change the Game. Below are live notes from Alan’s presentation, showing some interesting perspectives on how News Limited thinks about tablets, underlining in particular their belief in this channel, […]

Further explanation and answers to 6 questions on the Newspaper Extinction Timeline after one million views

Well the Newspaper Extinction Timeline we launched a couple of weeks ago has certainly made an impression. Given the 50,000 views we’ve had on my blog alone, plus the extensive uptake by mainstream media around the world (a partial list at the bottom of this post) it’s a pretty safe estimate that it has been […]

Making an Impact in the Digital and Social Media Communications Era: Panel at Ketchum Global Media Network in New York

I was recently on a panel at Ketchum’s Global Media Network meeting in New York with Chrystia Freeland, Global Editor-at-Large at Reuters News and former US editor of Financial Times, and John Mervin, head of the BBC News bureau in New York, moderated by Nicholas Scibetta, Partner and Global Director of the Global Media Network. […]

Jeffrey Cole at Ninemsn Digital Marketing Summit on the future of digital media

I’m at the NineMSN Digital Marketing Summit today, checking out what NineMSN, the Australian online joint venture between television channel 9 and Microsoft, is telling the marketing industry in Australia, significantly related to Microsoft’s vision.  The biggest drawcard of the day for me was Jeffrey Cole of USC Annanberg School Center for the Digital Future, […]

BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) plus Indonesia are where internet and mobile are exploding

Doyen of internet analysis Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley has provided some great data and insights in her presentation at Web 2.0 today. She has framed it around 10 questions Internet executives should ask themselves (and answer). The full deck is well worth going through – I have put that at the bottom of the […]

The variety of connection speeds around the world – it matters!

I’ve written several times about internet bandwidth across countries and why it matters, including some interesting research back in 2007 correlating time spent on PCs with bandwidth and a more recent post on bandwidth and economic growth. Now Royal Pingdom has compiled a nice list of real connection speeds in countries around the world, using […]