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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.
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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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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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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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CMYK Embroidery

By Ian Delaney | Published January 20, 2010

I want to remember this: (via Swissmiss), the CMYK embroidery project.
CMYK embroidery is a hand-made printing process, based on computer generated halftone screens.
Images are halftoned according to conventional screen angles: Cyan 105, Magenta 75, Yellow 90 and Black 45. Dot screens are the transformed into cross-stitch screens, printed on paper and marked for embroidery. I [...]

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News Comes From Newspapers Shock

By Ian Delaney | Published January 20, 2010

When people were asked where they found out about news stories in a new Pew Research Center project, their answer was old media, predominantly newspapers. This is the headline table:

Sector From Which New Information Reported (Six Key Storylines)

Sector
% of All Stories

Print
48%

Local TV
28

Niche media
13

Radio
7

New media
4

Source: Pew Research Center, January 2010

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The Social Economist

By Ian Delaney | Published December 21, 2009

The FT reports that The Economist plans to make headroads into social networks:
The Economist newspaper plans to acquire 500,000 fans on Facebook and 750,000 followers on Twitter within six months, in another sign that traditional publishers are looking to social media as a substantial source of web traffic and new readers.
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Places and Spaces

By Ian Delaney | Published August 6, 2009

We call the Internet a place. We go to sites. Marketing people talk about destinations.
But that’s rubbish. The Internet is with me, and increasingly with most people, all of the time. It follows us as we go to other places. Increasingly, it helps us to navigate those places. You have probably seen it already, but [...]

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Sweded

By Ian Delaney | Published October 15, 2008

Just watched Be Kind Rewind on PirateCity. In the interests of research, I tested an illegal video service that streams movies for free. The quality is fairly poor – somewhere between YouTube and Vimeo. And not ideally, I watched this widescreen movie in 4:3. Jack Black seems a lot slimmer nowadays.
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The Future of Newspapers

By Ian Delaney | Published October 7, 2008

I’ve been thinking about the future of newspapers a fair bit over the last few weeks, because we’ve been preparing a panel event on just that topic. It’s involved a range of reading and on-record and off-record conversations with a load of people involved with newspapers – readers, editors, pundits and the man on the [...]

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