As someone who combines an obsession with motorcycling with a love of social media marketing and tech, I picked up on a post back in July when Dave Winer met multiple world champion and motorcycling legend Valentino Rossi. One pioneered blogs, RSS, podcasting, and more, and the other has won eight motorcycling world championships, including [...]
Motorcycling and the art of social media
August 31st, 2009 · Comments
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Why the entertainment industry might hate getting social
December 8th, 2008 · Comments
Just a theory, but could it be that the business side of the industry, in control of the finance, business strategy, distribution etc could be worried about letting the inmates take over the asylum?
After all, the creators – the writers, directors,musicians etc seem to have had a rough idea about leading a tribe of passionate [...]
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Still kidding yourself that being social is just for ‘the kidz’?
November 25th, 2008 · Comments
I first came across ‘The School of Life‘ via the excellent Mark Earls. It’s apparently ‘ a new cultural enterprise based in central London offering good ideas about everyday living.’ And that includes: ‘ evening and weekend courses, holidays to unexpected locations, stigma-free psychotherapy, secular sermons, conversation meals, a floating faculty of experts and a [...]
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Will this be the Christmas of the MP3? Or could convergence save record shops?
November 25th, 2008 · Comments
With some time to kill before a meeting, I took the chance to browse round the Oxford Street branch of HMV, looking for inspiration for what to buy with a gift voucher I’ve had kicking around, and also to get ideas for Christmas presents.
Aside from reminding me how difficult it can be to find unusual [...]
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