Synesthesia

One ex-colleague points to a CIO Magazine article about another - Paul Cheesbrough’s decision to migrate users at the Daily Telegraph from MS Office to Google Apps. It’s an interesting choice, one I’ve pushed people to think about, and I can identify with the collaboration benefits that Paul has identified. But will it suit all of [...]

A podcast and related blog post from Dave Winer [via Doc Searls] makes some important points about the true impact of DRM on the media industry, and led me to start thinking about the strategic forces at play in the current "Internet will eat the Media" debate. In this post I summarise his key points, and then build on them to produce a value net analysis of the media industry from the perspective of the current incumbents. In later posts I will look at the analysis from the perspective of the people who create the content and devlop some thinking on the strategies open to both parties.

Tom Coates has posted the slides from Reinventing Radio: Enriching Broadcast with Social Software - the presentation given by him, Matt Webb, Paul Hammond and Matt Biddulph at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies conference

IBM have released an interesting view of the Media in 2010 but it still assumes there is a role for "trusted brand" intermediaries.