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Occasionally I have some existential epiphany, which mainly revolves around lying on a beach. The rest of the time, I work as a consultant in the media, mobile, advertising and transport sectors. I am interested in innovation. I have worked helping people dream, design and create innovative products and services. These include the first mobile-phone-integrated public screen technology, Vodafone live!, some of the BBC’s first websites and educational multimedia delivered via satellite. I have also worked as a management consultant for Deloitte helping media companies with their operational strategy.

Pay wall

Was thinking a little aboutMurdoch’s pay wall.
Ultimately there are only three revenue models; advertising,subscription (pay per view) or transaction based. What the traditional and new media companies have to do is find a balance of the three . With the cost of access and production becoming negligible the value trad media companies provide are around […]

The revolution in real time -From the intimate to the objective

Amazing photos coming from the  pro Mousavi demonstration in Tehran. (All of which seem to have disappeared from twitpic)What is incredible is how you can consume the story across the the Internet. The channels to access the story are in , a positive sense, fragmented. The fragmentation is not particularly the medium although that is […]

7 minutes to re-invent the Internet

Seven minutes to re-invent the Internet
Series of talks , 7 minutes each , held at Y&R. Video is from rob norman.
2. Rob Norman, CEO, GroupM Interaction Worldwide ” All about me”  3 concepts:

social gyroscope

How we rotate around our social connections, gathers our contacts around the particular identity one has at that time
contextual discoverability

Ensure relevance […]

What the … variable parking rates

Parking today I was faced with these tariffs.  My best price per minute was 2p (for 20 minutes), next best was 40 mins or 4 hours at 2.5p per minute, worst was 3.3p for 2 hours.
What the …

Do brands matter in a recession

Interesting definition of brand as being about reality . How brand’s interact with everyday life, how they enhance our lives. When well formulated they are what we engage with e.g. Tesco’s “Every little help” .
Some of the more aspirational, attitudinal brands will be shaken out by the recession as demand for their product declines. The […]

Long Tail becomes a blockbuster

The IAB has just released a trailer for the long tail.. really says it all. This is the IAB’s description
“Analysts estimate there are as many as 1.2 million Web sites that support themselves by selling advertising, through their own sales forces or ad networks. Most of them constitute the vaunted “long tail” — small sites […]

Convergence 3.0

photo credit: mangpages
Was reading some of MIT Convergence Culture Consortium writings (ended up buying Henry Jenkins book; “CONVERGENCE CULTURE: Where Old and New Media Collide” ).  Three main drivers are identified “
“These new relations are underpinned by three key concepts: transmedia entertainment, participatory culture, and experiential marketing.”
Which are blurring the lines between consumer and producer, […]

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