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TheNextWeb produced a good quality video of my keynote at TheNextWeb Conference 2012, shown below. It doesn’t show all of my full motion graphics presentation, though it frequently cuts to show segments of the visuals through my keynote. I will create and share a full video of my motion graphics presentation along with the audio
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On Tuesday I was interviewed as part of a 30 minute panel discussion on ABC Queensland on the future of radio. The podcast of the program is here. It was a wide ranging discussion, and we covered a lot of territory. At the conclusion of the program, when we were each asked to give our
Continue reading The future of radio will be a personal mosaic of global and local audio
SOPA, The Stop Online Piracy Act, is big news in many ways, not least in marking what is likely to be a historical landmark in the battle between traditional media and a now-powerful new media, played out in political influence and the shaping of critical legislation. One of the most important ways to beat SOPA
Continue reading OPEN: Using crowdsourced legislation to beat SOPA
The latest issue of the annual publication Media Trends + Strategy magazine kicks off with a feature article I wrote titled The Decade Ahead for Media. Here is the article: The decade ahead for media The future of the media industry as a whole is extraordinarily bright. Alongside the extraordinary rise of social media and
Another quick selection of my most popular posts from 2011, this time on the topic of the future of media: 1. Predictions for media industry in 2011 Social news curation, crowd sourced journalism, multi-platform distribution, personalized advertising and tablet media will be just some of the key trends shaping the year ahead.
I’m officially on holidays, but back at home between a family Christmas and beach sojourn and doing quite a few interviews as I go, so I’ll slip in a quick blog post or two. Yesterday I was interviewed by Toronto radio station Newstalk 1010 about the future (or lack thereof) of newspapers, coming off the
Continue reading From news-on-paper to news-on-many-channels
For those who love rich data on the world of media and telecoms, the release of a report by UK telecommunications regulator Ofcom is always a cause for celebration. Last year I covered some of Ofcom’s report on key trends on communication and media usage. Here I will excerpt a few of the highlights from
Continue reading Fantastic international comparative data on media, social media, and mobile
Today we are launching my new book Getting Results From Crowds: The definitive guide to using crowdsourcing to grow your business! This has been, in all, many years in the planning and making, and I’m extremely happy with how it has come out. It is definitely my most useful book, and while it’s hard to
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Early this year I caught up for a coffee with Stephen Browning, Director of Corporate Affairs at News Digital Media and The Australian. During our conversation he told me about a weekly digest of what’s happening globally in digital news and paid content that he compiled for executives at News Limited, to keep them informed
Continue reading Open strategy: News Limited shares its inspirations on the future of paid content
At the Canon CIO event I spoke at last week, jazz trumpeter extraordinaire James Morrison and his band played music through the event. James also gave a brief presentation on the event’s theme of the future. He said that not so long ago music was not chosen by consumers, but pushed on us by record
Continue reading The liberation of music for consumers and musicians
The Newspaper Extinction Timeline below was launched one year ago today. It received plenty of attention, getting published in newspapers and other mainstream media in over 30 countries, and being seen well over a million times. Click on image to download full framework Today a commenter on the original post asked me if anything had
Continue reading Revisiting the Newspaper Extinction Timeline on its first anniversary
Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has just released some great research on how people use tablets (still mainly iPads) to consume news. The infographic below summarizes the findings – click on the image to go through to the original full-size version. The very short summary is that those who own tablets usually
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Mary Meeker, formerly of Morgan Stanley and now of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, continues to do her annual presentation at Web 2.0 Summit, providing an unparalleled compilation of research about the global internet industry. There is a lot to digest in the 65 slides of the presentation, so I thought it was
As part of News Limited’s launch of its digital subscription plans that I wrote about earlier this week, News has just launched the site Future of Journalism, (subtitle: A Discussion Hosted by News Limited). It includes videos, infographics (very clearly taking a cue from social media here!), and articles. The site says “We have gathered
Continue reading The latest on the future of journalism: where value creation means jobs
I am at what would not long ago have been unimaginable for News Limited: a briefing by senior executives for bloggers and social media. What is even more surprising is that social media are getting the scoop on mainstream media in being briefed first. The executives present include Richard Freudenstein, CEO of The Australian and
Continue reading Breaking: Details of News Limited’s digital subscription plans
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I recently wrote about social and participative TV, as one of the important aspects of how TV as we currently know it will evolve. Of course, this is not to say that all TV will become social. A key characteristic of the TV format is that it is passive, and that is what many people
For many reasons PR (or perhaps rather what PR could be) is close to the center of my interests. As we shift to a world driven by social media and influence networks, arguably the PR industry has the best background and capabilities to help organizations deal with the new challenges and opportunities that are emerging.
In this final video in the series of ‘futurist conversations’ between myself and Gerd Leonhard of The Futures Agency, we discuss the future of Nokia as a keyhole on where the mobile phone market is going. Here are a few of the points we make in the conversation:
The distribution of music taste and consumption has shifted dramatically over the decade years, and will continue to evolve significantly in coming years. Back before a dozen years ago, radio and MTV exposed people to a limited range of music from label playlists, and the cost of records and CDs made it hard to experiment
Continue reading The implications of the new broader, flatter distribution of music taste
Continuing our series of conversations between fellow-futurist Gerd Leonhard of The Futures Agency and myself, here is our session on the future of newspapers. Here are a few notes from our conversation:
The music industry has struggled for over a decade as it tried to push back against inevitable change and maintain the status quo. While there has been some good experimentation over the years, we are now reaching a phase where the old structures have pretty much died and all that remains is experimentation to build
Continue reading Exploring new formats for music (and revenue): Björk releases inspiring “app album”
Continuing our series of conversations between fellow futurist Gerd Leonhard and myself, here is our session on the future of television. Here are a few of the ideas we share in the session:
Continuing our series of conversations on the future between Gerd Leonhard and myself, today’s session is on the future of music. Here are a few of the points we made:
While Twitter started in the US, it is now a global activity. Below, courtesy of Twitter Grader’s Top Cities, is the list of the current top 100 cities in the world on Twitter, based on the total number of users who put that city in their location setting. We have color-coded it to make it
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Much ink and many pixels had already been shed on Britain’s super injunction laws before the last week, but the Ryan Giggs case has pushed this into the stratosphere. In case you’ve been hiding in a closet, Manchester United star Ryan Giggs was awarded a “super injunction” from British courts, forbidding the press to report
After watching the documentary Gasland my wife Victoria has become incensed about the practice of fracking, as hydraulic fracturing is commonly known. The issue has received global attention, but is also being practised close to home for us near Sydney’s water supplies. Victoria has been wondering why people don’t seem to be paying attention to
Continue reading Music videos are the new journalism: learn about fracking!
The opportunity for television is to become a truly participative media. Over the last year or so my views on the future of TV have significantly shifted, to be far more optimistic for the media. Last year I gave the opening keynote at the Regional TV Marketing conference, and subsequently wrote how The Future of
Continue reading The rise of participative TV (hint: that’s better than social TV)
I’m in Beijing next week to do the keynote at the AICD conference on How Technology is Transforming Business and guest lecture at Beijing Foreign Studies University on The End of Newspapers and Future of News. While I’m in Beijing I’m keen to catch up with any local folks on Twitter/ Weibo/ social media and
Continue reading Beijing social media/ future of media meetup on May 19
When I’m in Beijing next week I’ll be doing a guest lecture at Beijing Foreign Studies University, China’s premier international studies university, where many of the country’s foreign ministers have studied. I will be speaking on The end of newspapers and the future of news. While many are familiar with my Newspaper Extinction Timeline, that
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The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has recently released some very interesting research on Navigating News Online, digging into how people navigate to news sites and what takes them away. Among the interesting insights was data on how news website traffic comes from Google and Facebook, shown below.
I wrote up some brief notes from the Gallery of Modern Art’s recent panel discussion on the future of the 21st century. Radio National’s Future Tense program subsequently broadcast the discussion and provided a full transcript for those who would like to see more of the content. One of the many interesting topics of discussion
Continue reading Making sense of and filtering information overload
Yesterday I completed co-presenting the three-part Ketchum webinar series on Tapping the Power of Mobile. The feedback was excellent, with record audiences of Ketchum clients and staff for the series. Here is an overview of the content we covered over the three webinars. The final session was on Where Mobile is Going, which looked at
Continue reading 6 uncertainties that will shape the future of mobile operating systems
This definitely counts as big news. Osama Bin Laden is dead after over a decade of trying. Interestingly, in many news outlets the fact that the news leaked on Twitter before President Obama’s announcement to the nation almost rivals the news itself. Just in following my own Twitter stream I knew the news (or at
Continue reading Telling the story of how the Osama news came out on Twitter first
The rise of news on tablets such as the iPad is one of the defining themes of our times. This was foreseen by some, even down to the language that we use. The following video, created by Knight-Ridder in 1994, describes their vision of the future of tablet newspapers.
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