By Ian, on July 11th, 2008 If you start a job as an oil rigger, then there’s a 50% chance you’ll have a reportable accident within the next six months. After that period, the risk drops to 5% or less, as you get to know the ropes. That’s quite frightening for potential oil-riggers and for people in the oil and gas industry who hire Continue reading Serious Games and Things By Ian, on January 19th, 2008 Thanks to DrewB for this invaluable reminder of my status, via Ffffound: I have three invitations to Ffffound, if you like pictures. First come, first served in the comments. By Ian, on January 8th, 2008 I’ve been tagged twice for this so here goes. I have also cheated and extended this out to two weeks… Telly: watched Extras and Dr Who over Christmas. Neither of them were as good as I’d hoped. Otherwise, I watched The Most Annoying People of the Year on BBC 3 through iPlayer, which was quite possibly Continue reading My Week in Media By Ian, on December 14th, 2007 Update: Had a good chat with Daryl Wilcox, and it looks like we’ve come to a sensible compromise that will allow Tim to do his job and Response Source to maintain its purity. All’s well, etc. My staff writer at NMK — Tim Hoang — works for the PR company, Rainier, as well. That’s always something we’ve Continue reading Conflict? By Ian, on November 8th, 2007 I am just back from the Digital Media Literacy Forum Summit hosted by Channel 4. Most of the people there — from the worlds of media, education and policy making — agreed that there was some need for action on digital media literacy (I guess none of us would have turned up, otherwise) but there Continue reading Digital Media Literacy? By Ian, on October 23rd, 2007 I was at a roundtable debate this morning about Citizen Journalism (update: rather ungenerous of me not to mention this was hosted by the excellent people from iStockPhoto). Everyone saying they want to embrace CJ as part of their forward strategy. I suggest that mainstream media is attempting to contain rather than embrace conversations. Me (to Continue reading Things I Wish I’d Said #1084 | 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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