The Future of TV at ETMA

A couple of weeks ago I was invited to join a panel to discuss the Future of TV as a part of the MBA course at the European Television and Media Management Academy in Strasbourg.
The panel moderator was TV industry journalist and analyst Kate Bulkley and the other two panelists were Jonathan Sykes, ex-head of [...]

#sxsw Robert Scoble’s six things wish list for organising his tweets

In the SXSW twitter tools session Robert Scoble suggested 6 things he’d like to see twitter develop to enable him to make sense of his twitter flow.

Bundling, putting similar themed tweets together (and with other media; youtube videos, flickr photos etc)
Reorder the tweets so I can put them together in away that makes [...]

New ways of working

Simon made the point the other day seems that if you continually work in the same way you run the risk of producing much the same work. His advice was to hunker down in the reading room at RIBA. Due to filthy weather and a lunch time meeting close the agency I decided to stay [...]

Laptopdance takes to the floor

Thursday night saw the 2010 rebirth of Laptopdance; a networking, info sharing, drink sipping geek-out. The Laptopdance events have had a varied past ranging from four of us in my basement flat eating a rather fine monk fish saffron paella to 120 of us at the Forrester Marketing Forum in London and pretty much everything [...]

At #Interesting09 pimping the BIL Unconfernce, TED’s unruly younger brother

Last weekened Russell gave Henry and me the opportunity to speak to the Intersting Conference attendees for 1.00 minute.
In a packed afternoon of inspiring and provocative talks it was a great opportunity to announce a Call for Assistance for BIL, the un-conference we’re working to promote for next year.
BIL started when Bill Erickson and 2 [...]