A Year in Reflection

October 1st, 2008 by Ben · No Comments

Dear friends, some brief, disjointed and trivial reflections and forecasts on my last day at R*M.
*sobs
It is often casually said that time flies when you’re having fun but that’s not the whole story. This last year since I started working here certainly has flown for me but equally it feels like my first day was [...]

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Capitalism and the Internet - are We Just Looking at Another Bubble?

October 1st, 2008 by Ben · No Comments

In my rangy gambollings over the reaches of the web, I stumbled over this little gem of a blog post by Irving Wladawsky-Berger at IBM. He eruditely compares the current balls-up in the financial industry with the Dotcom Bubble, about which he was well placed to know a thing or two, running as he was [...]

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Audience Research: Marmite – love it or hate it?

September 26th, 2008 by Ben · No Comments

A quick look on Clusty will end one of the most enduring debates of the modern world. After “yeast extract”, Clusty rates the top issue for a search on “Marmite” as “love”. “Hate”, on the other hand, is nowhere to be seen in the top ten issues.
Case closed.
More grand questions answered here on Ryan*MacMillan. Next [...]

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A Peace of TV History?

September 12th, 2008 by Ben · 1 Comment

Bob Geldof and chums at Ten Alps, in conjunction with Norweigan media and human rights organisation Point of Peace, have just launched a new online TV platform, Peace Channel.
I say “just”, it was launched 22 minutes ago.
I look forward to seeing where this goes. There is clearly an increasing prominence of niche channels such as [...]

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MeasurementCamp - One More Step

June 6th, 2008 by Ben · 2 Comments

I joined up with MeasurementCamp again on Wednesday, this time hudddled in a sweating mass in the upstairs of a cafe in Soho. Alright, so the social media industry may not be run from leather armchairs in smoke-filled club rooms but the croissants were first rate.

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