Yesterday I did the kick-off presentation and workshop at a strategy planning session of a major online media company. The intent was to provide some different perspectives on trends in digital media as input to their deliberations. One of the many topics I discussed was the rise of contextual search. Looking back over the last […]
On December 30 Gulf News published a compilation of local and worldwide media personalities’ forecasts for the media industry in 2011. Contributors including Bertrand Pecquerie, Director of the World Editors Forum, Kris Viesselman, President and Creative Director of San Diego Union Tribune, and Gilles Demptos, Director of Publications at WAN-IFRA. This was my contribution: Ross […]
There is an interesting Quora discussion going on What are the distinctions between Social Business and Enterprise 2.0? As in most Quora discussions some of the top people in the field have weighed in. I had to chip in myself – here is my comment. Business terms have a life of their own, just as […]
As you no doubt know, the delightful word “Zeitgeist” comes from the German, meaning ‘spirit of the times’. And in these extraordinary times it is useful to distill the spirits of the day. As such we have re-created our Zeitgeist for 2011 as a slideshow, as it’s an easier way to digest the 11 themes […]
I just did an interview on the industries that will grow and shrink this decade – I’ll provide a link to the story when it comes out if the magazine puts it online, or if not write it up as a blog post later. It made me remember an interview I did a couple of […]
This is a classic. The One Ronnie show on BBC has an awesome skit playing on how current technology is so often described by fruit. I laughed until I cried.
I’m back writing on my blog after 2 1/2 weeks break. For the first time ever for my personal blog, I’m using a WordPress interface. I’ve used several platforms for my blog since I launched in 2002, with the last three years on an increasingly dated version of Movable Type. So over the holirday period […]
That’s it – work done for the year. We’re heading off to Melbourne for Christmas with Victoria’s family, then up to a cabin in the rainforests of the Dandenongs for a week. I’m back to work on January 10, and looking forward to a fabulous 2011! I’ll be occasionally checking email or you can always […]
Excerpt from the list of ExaTrends of the 2010s: EVERYTHING MEDIA What we knew as media has exploded far beyond its traditional boundaries to encompass most social activity, how organizations function, and indeed the creation of almost all economic value. Even as newspaper extinction proceeds apace, the best media operators will thrive.. See the full […]
I just caught up for a coffee with Nick Love, head of MySpace and IGN Australia. I haven’t been following MySpace closely for a while, so it was interesting to hear how it has repositioned. Here are a few thoughts and pointers from public information. As it happens AllThingsD yesterday put up an interesting article […]
