Author Archives: Ian Delaney

My name is Ian Delaney. I’m a technology journalist based in London.

Mass Media Trends for the Tweenties

By Ian Delaney | Published February 9, 2010

A presentation I wrote for a meeting today about where our media are heading in the next 5-10 years. It doesn’t make a lot of sense without my accompanying narrative, I realise. Nonetheless, I wanted to keep it safely bookmarked and you might enjoy a round of Powerpoint-Karaoke against it.
Also, no image sources are acknowledged [...]

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Hell Freezes Over: Google and the Super Bowl

By Ian Delaney | Published February 8, 2010

While the UK slept last night, it appears there was some sort of sporting tournament across the Atlantic and that the world’s most-used search provider advertised its search capabilities and new(ish) browser. It’s quite a nice advert, telling a (cliched) story in an original manner with a clean style.

The excitement over Google advertising Chrome and [...]

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Real-World Objects as Infographics

By Ian Delaney | Published February 4, 2010

via fast company. I LOL’d but then realised literacy of infographics and data visualisations has become mainstream. Which makes me even happier.

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Taming the Spirit of the Times

By Ian Delaney | Published February 4, 2010

On most news organisations’ websites, you’ll find a widget called ‘most read’, ‘most shared’ or ‘most commented’, possibly all three. The Guardian’s Zeitgeist experiment suggests an interesting alternative.
Typically, the content found in the most-X sections provides a salutary – if depressing – reminder of humanity’s baseness and stupidity. What tends to get flagged is not [...]

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The Word: Publicy

By Ian Delaney | Published February 1, 2010

You’ll have seen this word flying about recently and it’s time for some explanations.
Err… don’t you mean ‘publically’? ['publicly' if you're American]
No. Well, in some ways, yes, I do. Let me explain.
In the past, there has been an assumption that privacy was the default state of human existence. It was only when you, someone or [...]

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Digital Marketing Outlook

By Ian Delaney | Published February 1, 2010

In mitigation of my not being able to think of anything interesting to write about today, I shall pass on several thousand words by other people, published by The Society of Digital agencies (SoDA). It’s a survey and editorial on what members of the society think 2010 holds for digital media marketing.
It’s a 70-page PDF, [...]

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Growth of Social Networks (or Not)

By Ian Delaney | Published January 27, 2010

New data from Nielsen confirms what you probably already know. Traffic to and time spent on social networking sites has boomed over the last two years. As the charts below show, people across the world are spending around five-and-a-half hours per month on social networking sites compared to just over two hours at the end [...]

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Memesurfing: iSlate and Social Media

By Ian Delaney | Published January 25, 2010

There is a fever of anticipation over the imminent release of a tablet-style computer from Apple – let’s call it the iSlate [Thursday Update - actually, let's call it the iPad - I stand by everything else in the post, though].
Nobody outside the company knows very much about how it works or its specifications, but [...]

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Wonky Rungs

By Ian Delaney | Published January 22, 2010

Groundswell – the Forrester Research social media blog – has produced an update to its engagement ladder diagram:

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Making is… Making?

By Ian Delaney | Published January 21, 2010

My estwhile colleague, the excellent David Gauntlett, has posted a new video about the work towards his next book Making is Connecting:

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