Been a while - decidedly more active on Twitter at the moment, and on the MediaCity Posterous blog (if I find something interesting to share...) Still, a happy new year 2010 to everyone! I can't help but think that this will be the year when we see massive upheaval somewhere in the world - what…Read more Happy new year 2010
It’s not what we do, it’s who we are.
...or, "My take on social media, pt II".See, it occured me the other day, that people have been for a very very long time defined by what they do. Sure, there have been royalties and icons, celebrities and famous people, who have reached a pinnacle where what they did didn't really matter anymore, just THAT…Read more It’s not what we do, it’s who we are.
Conference AHOY!
The Eyes on UX conference will kick off tomorrow in Vasa, Finland, with quite a renowned lineup of speaker (including your humble servant, myself that is). Read more about it at the conference pages. Dr Jeffrey Cole promises to be quite interesting tomorrow morning. Looking forward to that. Not only will I do a small…Read more Conference AHOY!
NaNoWriMo
With all things going on in economics, with the world ending in 2012 or so... it's good to do something completely different once in a while. Spurred on by how fun it was to do the #BBCAWDIO writing thing on Twitter, I decided to try my hand at NaNoWriMo, the annual writing effort where you…Read more NaNoWriMo
BBCAWDIO thoughts
(Another slightly off topic post)#BBCAWDIO musingsWhat if… What we are seeing is a power struggle in another universe, the mirror world. The key to the power struggle – which could be between a) the Queen, the Prince and their cohorts and b) the Resistance, fronted by Finnegan, perhaps the original Puppet, perhaps Pinman etc –…Read more BBCAWDIO thoughts
BBCAWDIO loose threads
(first of all, this is a kind of off topic post, since I'm involved in the #bbcawdio venture on Twitter - look it up, it's great fun! This is just a place to put loose threads and I'll delete this and coming posts later. You probably won't make much of what is written here unless…Read more BBCAWDIO loose threads
When developing cross media content…
....remember that the story that is being told is the single most important ingredient in the whole of the project. It MUST be compelling, nice, engaging, entertaining... and suitable for 360 exploitation. Now "exploitation" is not a nice word in itself, but exploitation is exactly what a cross media concept needs to be just that…Read more When developing cross media content…
Required reading, and some other stuff
With a lot of people going on about "GREEN SHOTS" and a recovery in the financial industry, please read the following article by Karl Denninger which pretty much sums up the situation.If you can't be bothered to read it, please just take this advice - exit the stock market you're in, NOW. There's no point…Read more Required reading, and some other stuff
If you read anything today…
...read this, required reading for anyone interested in a) the economical collapse, b) their own strategies for the future and c) getting themselves fired up with righteous anger a little bit. Read Karl Denningers ticker from yesterday here.Hedge your positions, plan for the future. Be safe.
Not the easiest of times for a format developer…
...seeing as I was, before vacation, wondering why Distraction Formats hadn't returned any of my previous mails. The last exchange was them explaining how we could proceed, with them distributing some of our formats - especially a football quiz show, GAME ON, that some of their clients were interested in.I had replied and was awaiting…Read more Not the easiest of times for a format developer…
Simon Staffans // Evolving Media 