Design

It is 30 days to the opening of the new gallery – focused on digital art, or art where the artist has managed, dealt with or transformed imagery with technology. It won’t be the first gallery in the world that focuses on images and technology but I hope it will become one of the […]

American Morality

I was picking through the new Granta list of young American novelists having got there by way of US aggregator site netscape, creators of my first favourite browser (I also did a stint as an Open Directory editor because I believed in what netscape was). This line from the Guardian coverage caught my eye.
“Several […]

More on Newspapers

On an early morning browse I came across this article, from Grade the news, which seems to me one of the most articulate reflections on the issues facing newspapers. By inference it provides insights into what the start-up community needs to know about old media pain. Here’s an extract:
“!Today’s newspapers are stuck in the old […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

An Equal Share of Anger and Amusement

Today started writing about food ethics, gave up with a headache and went in search of…. Went in search. Went ruminating on the trade. It took me across the water.
I find there’s an equal share of things to amuse and cause me anger. Reuters have funded a new journalism institute and it works in conjunction […]

The Internet Paradox

I’ve been having a little discussion wtih Conor and before him Shel Israel. I thought I’d post some to the front page see if anybody wants to join in.
In the summer I met with Rick Segal (the friendly venture capitalist) and Shel Israel who wrote Naked Conversations, along with Robert Scoble. I don’t know why […]

Does Anybody Know

What’s happening with the media. For about six months I tracked changes in the online media religiously but then got bored. The boredom coincided with the big media players taking a stake in various media companies. Not just Google and YouTube, News Corp and MySpace. I was bored by the fact that the big media […]

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