By Ian, on May 31st, 2007 The fantastic news about the last.fm deal surely proves that you don’t need to be in Silicon Valley to score big time. Well done to Martin Stiksel and his team, and screw the naysayers who claim London (and the UK) can’t support Web 2.0 projects. Those guys slept in tents on top of the Continue reading Yay for London — and the UK By Ian, on May 30th, 2007 I’ve been told-off by proper, real-world people twice in the last week or so for not blogging enough. Sorry. Writing about digital media at work seems to have decreased my desire to write about digital media some more once I get home. (To counter some objections, NMK has a ‘beta’ RSS feed here). However, my Continue reading Blogging 2.0 By Ian, on May 17th, 2007 The other very good — but slightly scary — thing about last night was bumping into Duncan Gough. Duncan and I go way back. I was his English teacher at college. Now, it seems, he’s a proper grown-up with a wife and child and everything. How old does that make me? He’s not just a grown-up, however. He’s Continue reading The Wrinkles Bit By Ian, on May 17th, 2007 I was delighted to attend the Chinwag Live event on widgets last night — perhaps especially since we’re having our own event on the topic next week, it was great to have the opportunity to hear what people are thinking on the subject. The event was extremely well attended and there was some good Continue reading Widgets and Wrinkles By Ian, on May 10th, 2007 Pesky beggars. Haven’t thought about them a lot since I left teaching ten years ago. Anyway, I just wanted to express some appreciation for Channel 4 and Steve Moore from policyunplugged for organising today’s In The Wild event. It was about how Channel 4 Learning might develop interactive content to replace (in the main) its terrestrial broadcast content. The Continue reading Children By Ian, on May 1st, 2007 Spent the morning at Internet World and will be back tomorrow. However, for anyone who didn’t go today, let me give you the benefit of my initial reconnoitre: Don’t arrive first thing. Such was the excitement that greeted the opening of the doors that there was a real scrum to get through, akin to Top Continue reading Internet World: Traveller’s Notes | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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