One of my favourite books of recent years has been Jonah Lehrer's Imagine; it turns out that he made some of it up. To be honest, I don't really care; it's a great book, there is lots of value in it, I'd still recommend you read it, and I for one know that you shouldn't … Continue reading Big ideas and the reality of ambiguity
Category: Themes
There was a fascinating article published last week on the Cult of Mac website last week which, if you look away from the sensationalist headlines gave an interesting viewpoint on some of the challenges of the use of skeuomorphic design within MacOS (and comparing that to the "authentically digital" design patterns within Windows 8). A skeuomorph is "a … Continue reading Skeuomorphism and the power of metaphor
In simpler days it would take quite some effort to spread nonsense around the world. The costs associated with the transmission of information were such that mass media were generally only accessible to the rich and the professionally trained (journalists). These days, with the world of media being completely disrupted by digital technology, and as … Continue reading How the blogosphere bends the news agenda
We're about to get the first floor of our house rewired, and it's made me have to think about what we do today, and what we might do in a few years time. The house was built at the turn of the last century, and then had extensions added in the 1920s and the 1980s. … Continue reading Home infrastructure
The chart above is taken from the recently published Ofcom report, The Communication Market 2012, and shows some interesting analysis of the consequences of smartphone ownership... that people spend less time using other devices and media when they own a smartphone. It's not exactly rocket science, that - we only have a certain number of hours in … Continue reading Substitutions
Back when I chose my university study subjects, the combination of Media & Communications, Criminology and Computing seemed somewhat disconnected to many. With the joy of hindsight, I'm sure now that most can see the intrinsic connections between, say, the first two and much of what has been reported out of Lord Leveson's epic enquiry, … Continue reading The UK Communication Market…
News emerged last week that the newly incorporated reincarnation of the Glasgow football club Rangers would be starting the new season in the fourth flight of the Scottish football league system. If you are not aware of the background, Rangers (one of the two big clubs that play north of the border) went into administration … Continue reading The curious case of Scottish Football
Achievements this week included: - great meetings with Topic Logic, Imagination, @andrewdotcom, Em Stone, colleagues in A&O, and my old boss Tim - delivered the first Creativity workshop to colleagues - some innovative thinking about how the marketing influence work moves forward - progress on recruiting into the evangelism team Next week: the subtle, low-key … Continue reading Weeknote 107: in to motion
I heard on the Today Programme this morning that this afternoon will see a milestone in broadcasting history as the BBC World Service makes its last transmission from its headquarters in Bush House in advance of a move back to Broadcasting House. If you know me, you well know that the BBC has a very … Continue reading Bush House
One of the great things about my current job is it gives me the cause to go and have conversations with people that I probably wouldn't otherwise get to meet. A couple of weeks ago I took a trip up to Oxford to meet Baroness Susan Greenfield, an academic who specialises in the physiology of … Continue reading Privacy for the digital natives
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