Archive for June, 2006
Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Two contrasting but related events in the past couple of days.
Yesterday at Pact’s Rights Lab (which was one of the projects I funded through Creative London) the discussion was much the same as at Broadcast Live last week: what are the opportunities for independent producers to do business in the ...
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Came across 'Open Space Technology' as a result of meeting Steve Moore of Policy Unplugged who is working on an InSync event we're doing about the Olympics. He was persuasive enough about it as an approach to structuring meetings that I ordered Harrison Owen's book on how to use it.
First ...
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006
At the Broadcast Live show at Earls Court, all the hardware sales pitches seemed to be about HD; all the panels were obsessed with how to generate revenue in an IPTV, video on demand world. One speaker, can't remember who now, suggested that it will be increasingly difficult for the ...
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
I made the mistake recently of 'upgrading' my phone to the O2 XDA exec. It's an appallingly designed piece of equipment. I have this naive faith that the perfect handheld device: phone, PDA, games platform, music player, hand-warmer is just about to appear on the market. I knew that the ...
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
Occasionally I'm reminded what a great project Artec was.
I met Mervyn Jarman today; he was a trainee at Artec in about 1996 or '97, one of a group that set up Mongrel with Graham Harwood.
Mervyn's major project over the past 5 years or so has been 'the Container Project': "a ...
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