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Report recommending ‘Google Tax’ seems rather confused

March 15th, 2010 · Comments

I’ve had to find time to try and make sense of the argument presented by The Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society, but going by an article on Paid Content, it’s going to be a fruitless task.
It seems that ‘Making Good Society’ will warn against recycled news and that the Government has [...]

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Tags: Digital Publishing · newspapers

A look at the future, or just some concept hype…

September 9th, 2009 · Comments

Quite intrigued by the new video of Nokia Mixed Reality:

I’ve been following Augmented Reality pretty closely, and how it links with wearable computing, and particularly smartphone usage – hence inventing the term ‘Moborg‘. The idea being that ‘wearable computing’ in the past always required wearing half a laptop strapped to your arm, and that we’re [...]

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Tags: augmented reality · technology

Some reactions to Digital Britain…

June 17th, 2009 · Comments

I haven’t been able to fully digest the Digital Britain report to be able to dissect it and add anything to the commentary already online, so I thought I’d share the thoughts of those people who I value enough to have in my RSS feed every day:
Digital Britain Scorecard: So how did Lord Carter do? [...]

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Tags: Digital Culture

The messy future for magazines

June 3rd, 2009 · Comments

Two stories on the Mediaweek site today perfectly illustrate the complexity and confusion in the publishing world.
At 7.30am it was suggested that Bauer Media (Disclosure – I worked for Bauer Media/Emap until earlier this year) would be reviving The Face, with an all-digital proposition one of the possibilities. While I’m not alone in wondering why [...]

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Tags: Digital Publishing