Like you, I’m a sucker for those books which identify an emerging area of economics or sociology and boil it down to some zeitgeisty theory. Most of us would like to say we can pinpoint the exact trends affecting society, business and bookshelves alike for the next three to six years. Somewhere within my own [...]
If you’re interested in online privacy issues, you may have read about Phorm, the company that gets your web usage data from ISPs in order to show you contextual advertising. Recently I’ve been contributing to a blog called Future Music Lab along with some colleagues from the music, media and online industries. One of my [...]
2 February 2009 – 9:45 PM
Have you tried Spotify yet? Tucked away in today’s post on Spotify’s own blog is a file listing newly included recordings by some of my favourite labels and artists. Labels represented on the list today include: Rough Trade, Poker Flat, XL, Rhino/Elektra, ECM, Universal, Pressure Sounds and more… Artists on the list from today include: [...]
19 January 2009 – 9:30 AM
Quick intro to my working situation. Native is a business that helps you with online media, based in Cardiff, Wales. It’s a two-headed partnership, of which the heads are me and Tom Beardshaw. At the moment we are meeting loads of people for coffee: old friends, new friends, clients, potential clients, people who create stuff, [...]
31 December 2008 – 8:14 PM
I’m setting myself a few New Year’s Resolutions for 2009. They’ll also be New Years’ Resolutions. Note the apostrophe placement because some of these things are just too good for only one year. One of them relates to email. Email is a blessing and a curse for me. Recently – OK, for the last few [...]
20 December 2008 – 7:16 PM
After the Bush/Shoe incident, anyone who’d spent even a few moments in eccentric corners of web knew there would be a creative response online. And it came. Wired has a summary of the shoe-inspired games and animations. So Sock And Awe wasn’t the only Flash game based on the Bush/Shoe event. But it was the [...]
14 October 2008 – 7:08 PM
Is it me or is this possibly the worst PR ever? This clip has been broadcast today by TV and covered by loads of media – and counting. It’s a great example of how NOT to communicate. Whatever you think of Ringo Starr as a musician, he has worked hard over a span of five [...]
