Why Mobile Will Win in TV
Just attended an IBM briefing morning the primary purpose of which was to inform companies about the IBM/Venture capitalist initiative (Conor - might be worth contacting ACT Ventures or IBM direct). Though that was the purpose I was distracted by a comment from one of the presenters that mobile will be the winner in digital […]
Kav’s Comments
I thought kav’s comments on the last post were so strong I wanted to highlight them so I’ve put them up here. Hope that’s okay and thanks to KAV, who used to work in pharma compliance….
“One of the main problems as I saw it (and the reason I got out of the industry)
is that for […]
Lies and Stats
GSK have just been fined for making false claims about the Vitamin C content of their Ribena product in ads in New Zealand. Here is a very interesting case. And it reminds me of the BBC and Blue Peter. It’s a bit about health and a bit about journalism
First GSK is one of the world’s […]
How To and Why?
Review:
I’m writing a short feature on how-to videos and asking the question why in our sophisticated society do people need explanatory videos on subjects like how to unhook a girl’s bra, how to kiss properly or how to replace the battery in your iPod, is there a familiar theme that links the apparent lack of […]
Politics Rumbling
I won’t bore you with the details but I just finished reading a book review by the up and coming UK politician - possibly the next PM, David Miliband. M reviews a new book by ex-Director of the London School of Economics (LSE) Anthony Giddens. Giddens for those who don’t know is an English academic […]
More Scandal for TV Comps
I picked this up on Tastetv. It’s not a definite but a possibility, a strong one, that another TV competition was found to be less than straight up with its details. This ran back in Jan/Feb beginning on laeater.
“Has Food & Wine magazine, one of Top Chef’s sponsors, inadvertently revealed the reality show’s second season […]
But What About This?
“For Wired News this is an experiment in changing the face of journalism, specifically through bringing the power of citizens into the mix and encouraging a new era of transparency in story development,” said Evan Hansen, editor-in-chief, Wired News.
Via Journalism.co.uk
Newspapers are Hot
This is from IWantMedia.
Foreign investors are eyeing India to launch TV channels, newspapers and magazines. India’s media and entertainment industry revenues grew 20% last year, and they are on track to more than double to $22.5 billion by 2011, according to a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Sadly, evidence of this is the launch of Hello! […]
Crowds, Wisdom and Politics.
This too via IWantMedia:
“Slate, the online magazine owned by the Washington Post Co., is launching a 2008 Political Futures database, which aims to harness the “wisdom of crowds” to forecast the outcome of 2008 U.S. Presidential and Congressional races. Slate will publish hourly updates of key data.”
Problem is according to the book Freakonomics most elections […]
YMOGEN
This is from Ymogen, a UK mobile web community builder. I find it fascinating:
As part of the mobile and web community CMS development, an exploratory research project is being conducted with BBC Innovation Labs and Nokia, using location-based story-telling and its implications for citizen journalism.
Tell us more.