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Opencast Project - a blog
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Online magazines, content and big things
I have every admiration for a media publisher that is pioneering its ‘engagement formats’, fully rounded on print, events, online… Perhaps this is an ‘of course’ moment to say that they track the film industry… and therefore are first-hand witness to the transformation of media into digital. C-21 Media aren’t just innovative with their format,...
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Global Web trends
These stats just dropped out of my copy of New Media Age today – it’s about social media uptake. The US has 92million Facebook users and 80m are uploading photos, 18m write a blog and 11m use Twitter. The UK has 16m users, almost everyone uploads photos, 5.5m write a blog and 5m use Twitter. India has...
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Happy New Year – Snow forecast
We’re now in our third week of snow under foot. We’ve got fresh supplies of grit and salt. Here’s a lovely photo of the character of the place… with cosmic thoughts for 2010: I’m chuffed that Paul J White took three photos of the yard for his 365 study of a photo per day for...
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Predictions 2010 – Next big things
What’s gonna be big in 2010? 1. Cross-platform Convergence has always been a big story – it’s a nirvana like ‘the paperless office’ which has never quite happened, but keeps everyone thinking. The world of TV, film, games, internet and mobile… there really is a fertile ground now for interplay. It was great to see...
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Next bit thing: media roll-up in the legal world
I’ve build my own various media empires – whether at Uni with Sophie Raworth, or journo college with Mark Simpson, Robert Nesbitt and Oliver Holt, or afterwards with Joel Harrison or Simon Waldman. These have been magazines, events, exhibitions, club nights, newsletters, databases… I’ve explored media issues with the likes of Tony Elliott (man, I...
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