Looking for a Writer

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 the

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Too Much; Too Young

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

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We, the Audience

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

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That Ad-​​Blocker Thing

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,

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Double Intimacy Score

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 poke them.

But I was wrong.

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Getting Ready for iDesign

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

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