A nice little toy to play with down below which has resulted from a few recent think streams. I have been thinking hard about the potential millions of formats that can be created by mashing the many traditional media forms with even more new media forms - endless combinations of genre, platform, structure, intention and [...]

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I find this really interesting and a portent of the future. I am sure you remember the context to the films Bladerunner, chasing down sneeky renegade bots. Then there was AI with its ‘Flesh Fair’, (humans destroying orphaned robots), then the agents in Matrix, what is real and who is not etc: All come from [...]

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I did a short presentation at the Australian Communications Media Authority ICE conference last week. It was at the end of a plethora of panel presentations about regulation, media literacy, digital privacy and converged business models. There was also a range of keynotes that were pretty generic, about attitude to change eg: Steve Vamos (Microsoft [...]

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I have posted prolifically about MUVE’S (Multi User Virtual Environments) in the past, concentrating mainly on the ever customisable Second Life. It is interesting to watch the buzz spreading and consider if virtual worlds are really web 3.0, I think so. A quick look at the evolution of the intraweb from the mid 90’s. From [...]

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What goes around comes around. Google picks up where many have failed in synchronising TV and web 2.0 - “Google developing social and interactive television applications for ‘mass personalization” is the ZDNET header.
About six years ago, just at the dawning of interactive TV in the UK a few companies were trotting their cross-media wares to [...]

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Over the past 11 years in my frequent capacity of training traditional producers in the craft of emerging media production I have used a variety of tool/s, representations, diagrams, exercises, metaphors etc: that have helped them grasp a little of the complexity. There are some taxonomies and schematics in the attached wiki (formats) which are [...]

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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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…you gotta make the adverts last”. (you have to sing/think that in Simon and Garfunkel mode of course). In a world of on-demand - whether via (1) synch’d Personal Digital Recorder (eg: iPod, PSP), (2) broadcast capture (DVR, TiVo) or (3) straight forward server pull (cable, dsl, broadband) - advertising as we currently know it [...]

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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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An article in the New York Times that is presumably cited in a million blogs already about Googles video ’store’. In the item “Trash Mixed With Treasure” , David Pogue goes at great lengths to talk about the chaos that is Google Video vs the relative calm we get in iTunes video store. As [...]

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A great article from Teckrati entitled “The Personal Internet Will Subsume Mobile Internet Assumptions” that talks about a new paradigm, that of the personalized internet, particularly from a mobile perspective. As we know mobile devices at the moment are the most personal in that they ‘live’ with you and contain most of your personal information [...]

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Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft (The big three) are relatively open in recent posts about the fact that behavioural targeting & personalization is now high on their agenda and part of an on-going strategy. Microsoft’s press announcement yesterday was picked up in MediaPost, amongst many others, their plans to follow up on Bill Gates’s CES [...]

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