The ‘End of the Web?’ 4 threats and 4 opportunities

So Wired is predicting The End of The Web.

Using data from Cisco the Wired graph shows not just a decline in Web based traffic and email but also a concurrent phenomena of traffic going to apps and other off web locations. As various commentators have pointed out, and Boing Boing graphically illustrate, the story is [...]

Archaic BARB: a backwards approach to the present

Having followed the back and forth between BARB and Broadcast Magazine’s correspondent Kate Bulkley, I sent the following letter to Broadcast and it was published today. Unfortunately all of their content is behind a paywall but you can see Bulkley’s articles on her blog. The gist of the narrative is Bulkley wrote a piece explaining [...]

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 [...]

My new iPad; a few UK frustrations but a lot of fun

A few weeks ago I found myself in Chicago having breakfast with a colleague from the Draftfcb Chicago planning team. Ross and I had already met in Austin a couple of months earlier so he knew my weakness for technology. Timing his reveal perfectly he waited until I’d consumed all of my bagel and double [...]