There’s lot to appreciate about Lessig’s latest foray, “Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy” (Bloomsbury 2008); its released under a Creative Commons license, it has its own website, a page of all of the links referred to in the book, a wiki for critiquing, extending and commenting on the book and [...]
Jon Drori at Btween09: Botching relationships; a useful guide
June 14th, 2009 by Leo Ryan · No Comments
One of the most enjoyable presentations at the recent Btween09 conference in Liverpool was from Jon Drori on how to botch relationships between big (government / public body) entities and small businesses (independent social media agencies perhaps?). Jon is, amongst many other things, the former Head of Commissioning for BBC Online and with the Government’s [...]
Bombay Sapphire’s three cornered hat
May 22nd, 2009 by Leo Ryan · No Comments
I’ve been kicking around some ideas with Mat recently on the interplay between offline events, online discussion and traditional media coverage. This article in NMA on Glue’s activity with Bombay Sapphire gets closer to illustrating the idea.
The Dusk Bar at Somerset House feeds the online social media activity which is then written about in the [...]
Sustainable communications
May 20th, 2009 by Leo Ryan · No Comments
Arriving early at eConsultancy’s Social Media Showcase I was (easily) distracted by RIBA’s bookshop.
Flicking through the construction porn on the shelves there is a clear theme running through the industry’s periodicals; sustainability is an editorial obsession;
Icon: The Edible City
Architecture + Urbanism: Green Architecture
Dwell: Beyond Green
Domus: Natura design magistra
The implication is clear, the architecture profession is [...]
The death of search?
May 8th, 2009 by Leo Ryan · No Comments
In today’s Search Insider column, Chris Copeland argues that the logical evolution of search will lead to its extinction. Not just as a standalone business which he argues will be the result of either acquisition by media agencies or diversification of services by the remaining search agencies; but that the discipline itself will disappear. He [...]