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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Are we already past the tipping point? Google’s ad revenues in the UK overtake that of Channel 4s. If that isn’t enough, 16-24 year olds in the UK are watching 7 hours TV less a week than the average.

I am not sure why traditional broadcasters still say that the web is there to support and [...]

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Update article: Networks in crises - from the Australian about the tsunami about to hit Oz shores, a region entrenched in the old advertising model…
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Two articles about the fraught changes in advertising caught my attention this week that reinforced many things that I had been talking about during a major curriculum review at the [...]

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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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Not quite open doors, more a slightly ajar gate, the BBC was acting out of character in openly having ideas pitched from indies, in this very public forum. I was reminiscing with Ferhan Cook who organises Milia how interactivity across TV and the internet (this pre-dates mobiles), was relegated to a small stand less than [...]

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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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All this in the last week only - my head hurts trying to track it all! In case you haven’t noticed TV and video being made easily available for commercial download over the internet is continuing unabated. Since its early beginnings in the last quarter of last year things are really starting to accelerate, on [...]

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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
So I made it through the end of year celebs, family and big ‘life’ changes that inevitably seem to happen to me around this time – and here I heads down and almost back into the blogosphere. What to start the year with? Well I missed the end of year upsum (due [...]

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A report for the UK government I co-wrote with Scott Gronmark and Jonathan Marshall on metadata provision for the UK to enable national video-on-demand and time shift using TV-Anytime has finally been published on the Department of Trade and Industry site. You can download the 1.25MB PDF here. The paper is 73 pages long and [...]

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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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Who would have thought a web site that started as searches for text strings could start to worry the biggest corporations on the planet? Well the New York times today in the article “Just Googling It Is Striking Fear Into Companies” points out that as more and more people are becoming active searchers (and in [...]

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Searching for anything over broadband web and advanced TV systems is going to have to evolve. We are still in the dark ages when it comes to getting relevant content, being forced to type in ‘keywords’ seems to me at least, such a crude, clunky way to get to stuff. I sit at computer and [...]

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