My Diet Friends Pulls the Odd Surprise
I was unable to get to the recent Barcamp in Waterford where I would have talked about a surprising finding we have with Mydietfriends.com. Mydietfriends was set up as a user-generated content site for people who want to talk about eating well. As this is the era of user content it seemed like a no-brainer. […]
Boomers Get Segments
I’m an avid follower of the baby boomer market. Call it an age related ddisease. For decades boomers have been htought of as one group but suddenly the marketeers are starting to divide them into targetable market segments. The reason has something to do what a widerrecognition that this age group have teh spending power […]
Art in Web Time
What normally grips computer geeks is raw computing power but at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas a week ago they were focused on the visual impact of machines. The show was choc full of new interfaces and good looking screens, the pathways and techniques we use to interact visually with computer processors. But […]
I’ve Seen The Future of Advertising
The dismaying aspect of Web 2.0, which I take to be a democratising of communications, is the perversion of how we think and discuss by the very existence of gatekeeper sites and the recent legacy of celebrity culture. For newbies it works like this. Want recognition for your site: be seen in the TechCrunch comments, […]
Forget the Processor - Feel the Width
What normally grips computer geeks is raw computing power but at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and as Apple presented the iPhone in San Francisco, this week they became unusually focused on the visual impact of machines. The computing industry is gracefully converging with the consumer electronics industry (Apple is no longer […]
Content is King - Make That Queen, Jack. Content is Unimportant
Regular readers will understand that controversy is at least half the fun when it comes to picking out the right answers. Ajit Jaokar and Tony Fish, in their book Mobile Web 2.0, say “Content is King” is nonsense. A few years back, before the dotcom boom, financiers used to say Cash is King, and […]
Short-Form: The Current Content Craze on the Web
How is content changing, and how is it changing us? That’s a theme I’ve been writing about for a while. What’s the significance of short form content? For Sale. Childs’ Shoes, Never Worn. That’s a six word Hemingway, perhaps the stand-out masterpiece of the ultra-short. This is a long article I wrote for the Irish […]
Are Memories Made of This Any Longer?
Part of the fascination of reading blogs is asking what are they replacing? And as instant, regular and throw away thoughts become more prevelant and interact with formal creative dramas like 24, Lost, Desperate Housewives, and reality driven narratives like Survivor, questions go begging. For almost ever drama and art have been about memory […]
Drama in Blog Time.
I loved the first series of 24, yet after a determined attempt to watch series 2 felt I’d already got it. 24 and me haven’t connected since. Similarly with Desperate Housewives, we, my wife and me who never make an appointment with the TV, were there every Tuesday evening. Having just seen the first two […]
Post-Moore’s Law - Is There a “New Technology Futures”?
When George Orwell sat down to write his account of a dystopian future, 1984, he had in mind the combination of cynical, polarising politics of post-war Europe and the growing art of information technology. George Orwell managed to make the eavesdropping, surveillance-heavy future enabled by technology full of social, psychological and philosophical menace. In fact […]