I’m spending nearly all my time on NMK sorting out events, courses and commercial deals – the stuff that actually brings in money – so I need a junior writer who can catch up with internet statistics and research stories, report on events going on in digital London and to talk to key players, so [...]
September 26, 2007
My colleagues at MusicTank are putting on an event next Wednesday (3/10/07) called ‘Music’s New Conundrum: Too Much Choice?’. MusicTank, if you haven’t come across it before, is a knowledge-sharing network for the music industry, in much the same way that my own outfit, NMK, is a knowledge-sharing network for the digital industry. I [...]
September 25, 2007
A report in the recent McKinsey Quarterly highlights some rather interesting figures for believers in social media. You’ll recall the one percent rule – that only 1% of the visitors to social media sites actually contribute original content, and only 10% contribute anything whatsoever. According to research conducted across a number of projects, one percent is [...]
September 21, 2007
I sort of realised what I meant to say in the Ad-Blocker debate: If your business model doesn’t work any more because technology has changed, then you need to change, too. Blaming the users/consumers/the technology isn’t going to change a thing. Stop whining and start being more interesting. Daft video du jour is, appropriately enough, ‘Daft Hands’ [...]
September 19, 2007
I’ve been fairly unimpressed by Facebook apps. By and large, I haven’t seen the point of them. A lot seem to just add some sort of gimmick – I don’t want to ‘high five’, add a fish, zombify or stroke the pet of my Facebook pals. And, in the main, I don’t want to [...]
September 14, 2007
If you’re in town on Tuesday (18/09/07), then do please book to come to iDesign. It’s a one-day conference about interactive design, organised by my colleagues at dynamo-london, in association with NMK (my outfit) and AIG. Tickets are nearly all gone, but there are probably still enough left for the readership of this blog. Hi [...]
September 13, 2007
You’ll recall the Million Dollar Homepage, the buy-a-pixel-for-a-dollar site that actually managed to raise a million dollars from astute marketing gurus looking for an exciting and original way to gain exposure hapless buffoons with more money than sense? You’re probably also aware that there have been various rip-offs since then that haven’t done quite as [...]
September 12, 2007
I use Ad-Block Plus. I have done since I first heard of it, a couple of years ago. I think it’s brilliant. I think ads on the Internet are annoying and intrusive and that they fundamentally don’t work – I either don’t look at them, or I want them out of my face, or I [...]
September 10, 2007
I came across a great paper today called Vernacular Web 2, which is about two things in particular: The golden age of the ‘Welcome to my web page’ sites: the ones with the starry backgrounds, midi music on autoplay and animated gifs. These expressions of folk art were reviled by designers and internet intelligentsia alike throughout [...]
September 3, 2007
By complete coincidence, I came across two new visualisation tools in my morning reading today. The first is TouchGraph, a Java application that creates a graph showing the relationships between any web address and the rest of the Web. It does this by grabbing the list of related sites from Google – the same list you’d get [...]
September 27, 2007