A fabulous upsum range of articles from the Economist on our beloved media industry (mostly in the user, participatory domain) and the evolution, revolution and chaos it is going through. “Among the Audience” - Get it here.
This survey will examine the main kinds of new media and their likely long-term effects both on media companies [...]

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A fabulous, clear page from David Sifry on the growth of the blogosphere as at April 2006. His exec summary:
In summary:

The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months
It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day
19.4 million bloggers (55%) [...]

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There must be something in the air. I have been in identical conversations in the past week with folk I have been lecturing, professional content makers and colleagues. The problem of what to do about the tidal wave of content coming over the horizon and how to get noticed. I put to them that a [...]

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Update: The vanilla Razr 3G handset I bought now voted best 3G device 2006 Gadget envy/showoff begins…
This post is partly due to my being the chair the first day of the Australasia Mobile Content World Conference in June and partly because I recently bought into Oz 3G, to immerse myself more in mobile content [...]

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Make sure no one is listening, I am going to give an opinion now. Having this blog trawled for my views on products and services which end up making money for third party companies - without my consent, is not a good thing for the general perception of profiling and personalization. So it is with [...]

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or get your fix when you want it…This post is a preface to a series of posts about the on-demand revolution that is truly just around the corner - prompted by a small but significant event in the TV industry that happened yesterday and a visible second wave of Advanced TV hardware and networks (Broadband [...]

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While browsing some gadget sites the other day with my partner we came across a company called SmartAdds who seem to be inextricably attached to the almost defunct Gizmondo, convergent device. The device is/was interesting in itself, phone, GPS (plus navigation), games console, video player, MP3, bluetooth etc: but the service partly bundled with the [...]

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It has been quite a few days since my last post and was expecting to have a great deal to write about but there seems to be a bit of a lull in some of the end of 2005 developments. The exponential rise in mobile rich media, broadband TV and web 2.0 has stalled slightly. [...]

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RealMedia and Microsoft have had their knuckles rapped once already and it seems that the normally tread-carefully Apple have started to upset a few folk with their ‘collaborative filtering’ methodologies via iTunes. The BBC article ” Snooping fears plague new iTunes” points out that Apple is watching you. Every time a viewer visits the iTunes [...]

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Against all other research it seems that Nielsen and Nickelodeon have managed to pull out of the bag some figures (noted by the Progress Report) that shows kids are actually watching ‘more‘, yes more TV now than at anytime in the last 20 years! Excuse me while I dip my index finger and thumb in [...]

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Sorry for the gap in posts, been finding out how and why Australia’s media landscape is the way it is at this years inaugural ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority) conference in Canberra. Will post some of my thoughts about it over next few days – needless to say not a bed of roses. Before [...]

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A short post but primarily to keep this blog inside it’s personalization remit (not that there is a remit, just…well…). If you have read any of my previous posts specifically in the ‘personalization’ or ‘media personalizing’ categories you would have realised that as we move from straight search to this area we can expect big [...]

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