New Eras Take Time To Dawn

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

The first television broadcasts were nothing more than a camera placed in front of a radio announcer. The first films ever made were shot through a proscenium arch to replicate the theatre experience. New art forms tend to lag behind the introduction of new technology.

So it should come as no…

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One At A Time, Please

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Check e-mail. Facebook. Read the paper. Tweet. Check voicemail. And all of that while watching TV.  We are increasingly becoming defined by connectivity.  Work and home life mingle as a result. Multi-tasking extends now into most of modern life.

Is that what we really want? Well, many people…

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Innovate Or Stagnate

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

This week NESTA published a report which boldly stated that the only ways to trigger economic growth and job creation were innovation and high-tech industry expansion.

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Youtube, Advertising And Multi-tasking

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

YouTube announced this week that it streams more than two billion videos a day. Yes, you read that correctly – two billion.  Just last October, on the third anniversary of…

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Such Tweet Sorrow

Friday, April 30th, 2010

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s micro-blogging treatment of the most famous love story of all has been running for more than ten days now. Enough time to pass judgment on a genuinely innovative take on Romeo & Juliet.

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How Social Media Is Revolutionising Disaster Response

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Africa’s problems always seemed too great for the worldwide web to solve.  Even with Web 2.0, innovation seemed to flow strictly in one direction – philanthropically from developed to developing world. 

Now a social media mash-up developed in rural Kenya has reversed that.

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Communicating The Biggest Behaviour Change Of All

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

It’s probably the biggest challenge faced by mankind. And communications is the key. But somehow communications has yet to really step up to the plate to play its (critical) role in engaging people on climate change. 

Last week I went to hear Lord (Chris) Smith, Chair of the Environment Agency…

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