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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
The new ordering of information: An assault on the edge
I've added a new post to /Message about google's Knol and Sir Tim Berners-Lee's proposals for certification of digital content. Join in?
Monday, August 04, 2008
Testing qik live from a glider!
I've been playing with qik recently as anyone who has caught any videos from me will know.
Qik allows you to broadcast live streaming video from your mobile phone. There's usually a small delay before it'll appear in my live channel (see latest from the channel below) but it's close to live.
This evening from 6.30pm (UK, BST) I'm going gliding - and I'm taking my mobile and qik with me. I managed to broadcast on just a couple of bars of 2G signal recently from a forest in Norfolk. I reckon hundreds of feet above the Cambridgeshire countryside should offer an even tougher challenge! Here's what I've written about qik before.
UPDATE The rather disappointing outcome appears below:
Qik allows you to broadcast live streaming video from your mobile phone. There's usually a small delay before it'll appear in my live channel (see latest from the channel below) but it's close to live.
This evening from 6.30pm (UK, BST) I'm going gliding - and I'm taking my mobile and qik with me. I managed to broadcast on just a couple of bars of 2G signal recently from a forest in Norfolk. I reckon hundreds of feet above the Cambridgeshire countryside should offer an even tougher challenge! Here's what I've written about qik before.
UPDATE The rather disappointing outcome appears below:
UK's top 20 Marketing Blogs
A new month and a new top-of-the-pops moment for marketing (kinda) blogs - and this time FasterFuture is officially listed in the top 20 UK marketing blogs. Hurray for us! (that means you.)
Listings show (from left) UK ranking (movement), Global ranking (movement), link to blog.
Big thanks to the guys at spinning around (no14 on your list) for compiling this from the Adage Power 150 list.
Listings show (from left) UK ranking (movement), Global ranking (movement), link to blog.
Big thanks to the guys at spinning around (no14 on your list) for compiling this from the Adage Power 150 list.
| 1 (-) | 41 (-4) | russell davies |
| 2 (+2) | 51 (11) | Blogstorm |
| 3 (-1) | 53 (-5) | David Airey |
| 4 (-1) | 58 (-2) | NevilleHobson.com |
| 5 (-) | 76 (+1) | adliterate |
| 6 (-) | 85 (+11) | Only Dead Fish |
| 7 (-) | 97 (+5) | Crackunit |
| 8 (-) | 109 (-6) | PR Blogger |
| 9 (-) | 128 (-9) | The Engaging Brand |
| 10 (-) | 144 (+13) | Welcome to Optimism |
| 11 (-) | 176 (+4) | HERD |
| 12 (+1) | 184 (+10) | Make Marketing History |
| 13 (-1) | 214 (-23) | A PR Guy's Musings |
| 14 (+4) | 216 (+11) | Spinning Around |
| 15 (+1) | 220 (-) | Blog Till You Drop |
| 16 (+1) | 221 (+1) | Modern Marketing |
| 17 (-3) | 226 (-27) | PPC Blog |
| 18 (+1) | 232 (+10) | Fraser's Affiliate Marketing Blog |
| 19 (-4) | 243 (-35) | Crenk |
| 20 (+2) | 261 (+44) | Faster Future |
| 21 (+2) | 267 (+51) | SEOCO Blog |
| 22 (-2) | 280 (-2) | greenormal |
| 23 (-2) | 286 (+9) | Hobo SEO UK |
| 24 (+4) | 312 (+38) | Drew B's take on tech PR |
| 25 (NEW) | 315 (NEW) | The Ad Pit |
| 26 (-1) | 316 (+8) | Wadds' tech pr blog |
| 27 (NEW) | 318 (NEW) | Collective Conversation |
| 28 (-2) | 322 (+7) | Beyond PR |
| 29 (-5) | 323 (-2) | Life Moves Pretty Fast |
| 30 (+3) | 325 (+98) | Nick Burcher |
| 31 (-) | 338 (+44) | Simonsays |
| 32 (NEW) | 339 (NEW) | Brendan Cooper |
| 33 (+5) | 341 (+115) | Living in a digital world |
| 34 (-5) | 346 (+13) | Interactive Marketing Trends |
| 35 (-5) | 366 (+9) | 50-Plus Marketing |
| 36 (-9) | 368 (-19) | livingbrands |
| 37 (-3) | 381 (+45) | Brand Strategy Magazine Blog |
| 38 (+1) | 386 (+88) | The Way of the Web |
| 39 (-7) | 389 (+10) | mediations |
| 40 (NEW) | 399 (NEW) | Direct response marketing observations |
| 41 (NEW) | 403 (NEW) | General Marketing Blog |
| 42 (+4) | 404 (+135) | London Calling |
| 43 (-6) | 425 (+29) | Raw Stylus |
| 44 (NEW) | 432 (NEW) | Get International Clients |
| 45 (NEW) | 439 (NEW) | This Is HERD |
| 46 (-11) | 451 (-12) | rubbishcorp® |
| 47 (-11) | 453 (-) | Simon Wakeman |
| 48 (NEW) | 466 (NEW) | Blendingthemix |
| 49 (NEW) | 478 (NEW) | renaissance chambara |
| 50 (-9) | 495 (-) | Pudding Relations |
| 51 (NEW) | 502 (NEW) | Shiny Red |
| 52 (-8) | 508 (+13) | A Mountain Dweller in the Thames Valley |
| 53 (NEW) | 511 (NEW) | Event Manager Blog |
| 54 (NEW) | 531 (NEW) | Nicola Davies |
| 55 (-10) | 532 (-6) | Vincent Thome's Blog |
| 56 (-9) | 535 (+22) | Unleashed on Marketing |
| 57 (-17) | 548 (-71) | (Almost) Always Thinking |
| 58 (NEW) | 560 (NEW) | FreshNetworks Blog |
| 59 (-10) | 564 (+4) | All Things PR |
| 60 (-12) | 579 (-16) | Brandgym Blog |
| 61 (-18) | 581 (-78) | [Bluurb] stuff and things |
| 62 (-20) | 585 (-83) | The New Marketing |
| 63 (NEW) | 598 (NEW) | Measurement Matters |
| 64 (-12) | 602 (+4) | Indolent.com |
| 65 (-14) | 611 (-17) | PR Voice |
| 66 (NEW) | 617 (NEW) | 25 letters in the alphabet |
| 67 (-17) | 650 (-58) | In the Cowshed |
| 68 (-15) | 655 (-42) | Offer and Acceptance |
| 69 (-15) | 666 (-24) | Creative in London |
| 70 (-13) | 673 (+15) | From PR to Eternity |
| 71 (NEW) | 678 (NEW) | 10 Yetis PR Blog |
| 72 (-16) | 685 (-5) | Yet Another Planning Blog |
| 73 (NEW) | 689 (NEW) | Digital Examples |
| 74 (-19) | 716 (-50) | PRwordSmith |
| 75 (NEW) | 731 (NEW) | CarbonGraffiti |
| 76 (NEW) | 745 (NEW) | noticing |
| 77 (NEW) | 746 (NEW) | From the Cowshed |
I was not looking for Linda, Linda found me...
Delicious serendipity, the cocaine of discovery.
I was taking tea with Herd author Mark Earls in Camden on Friday (yes, we are in England, folks) when Mark spotted someone he knows. He called out and they had a brief conversation.
Turns out it was Pat Kane, lead singer of 80s pop sensation (I think that's the right phrase pop pickers!) Hue and Cry.
The delicious discovery? Pat is rather more than an ex-pop star. He, I discovered thanks to Mark, is a brilliant thinker and the author of the Play Ethic.
A quote from the blurb:
My takeaway so far (and I'm off to order The Play Ethic, by the way) is that people enjoy changing things, taking the mickey out of things, passing things around, playing with ideas, tools etc with a sense of joy. Being 'business serious' can be quite enough to kill ideas.
The gladiatorial my-idea-is-bigger-than-your-idea stuff that goes on in too many meetings is a fight to the death. The surviving idea doesn't come through better - it comes through with bits chopped off and toughened up so much that its now harder than ever to get it to trust a friendly hand when it reaches out (to collaborate, build on, share, co-create).
If the ideas were played with rather than fought over we'd find ways of making the game better, together. And this of course applies to the better digital tool sets groups are using to form with.
I like this very much. At least, I like the direction this chance encounter has prodded me in.
I was not looking for Linda, Linda found me? It's a Hue and Cry lyric. And a great description of how the Play Ethic discovered me...
I was taking tea with Herd author Mark Earls in Camden on Friday (yes, we are in England, folks) when Mark spotted someone he knows. He called out and they had a brief conversation.
Turns out it was Pat Kane, lead singer of 80s pop sensation (I think that's the right phrase pop pickers!) Hue and Cry.
The delicious discovery? Pat is rather more than an ex-pop star. He, I discovered thanks to Mark, is a brilliant thinker and the author of the Play Ethic.
A quote from the blurb:
"The Play Ethic shows how play is fundamental to both society and to the individual, and how the work ethic that has dominated the last three centuries is ill-equipped to deal with the modern world."Not a million miles from Stowe's high valuation of playfulness that he's been describing recently here at Reboot and here at WidgetWebExpo.
My takeaway so far (and I'm off to order The Play Ethic, by the way) is that people enjoy changing things, taking the mickey out of things, passing things around, playing with ideas, tools etc with a sense of joy. Being 'business serious' can be quite enough to kill ideas.
The gladiatorial my-idea-is-bigger-than-your-idea stuff that goes on in too many meetings is a fight to the death. The surviving idea doesn't come through better - it comes through with bits chopped off and toughened up so much that its now harder than ever to get it to trust a friendly hand when it reaches out (to collaborate, build on, share, co-create).
If the ideas were played with rather than fought over we'd find ways of making the game better, together. And this of course applies to the better digital tool sets groups are using to form with.
I like this very much. At least, I like the direction this chance encounter has prodded me in.
I was not looking for Linda, Linda found me? It's a Hue and Cry lyric. And a great description of how the Play Ethic discovered me...
Friday, August 01, 2008
Putting Context Collapse into Context...
If you watched this from Michael Wesch, you might be interested in the further explanation of the Context Collapse he describes.
The context here is the moment the vlogger faces the webcam to record something (for youtube for example) and realises that they are about to share with whoever may ever discover it on the web, for all time.
Daunting.
Some pause for thought to try to let that sink in...
Most just crash on without thought for the ever-more or the endless variety of audience for their piece-to-camera.
Rather helpfully the prof has penned this.
Here's an illuminating excerpt:
The same weight of history applies to our blog posts (even these words as I write them...), your comments, forums, the pictures you share on flickr, the relationships you share on social networks...
As I asked Mike in the comments on his post: "Assume you make the distinction for video (as compared to our words and pictures in blogs, forums and social networks) because of the lack of ‘face-work’* in those contexts?
I guess the weight of history rests upon the very words I type now. But the process of writing has been one we are used to performing without direct and real-time feedback.
Out of interest, I wonder if Mike has done a comparison with how people reacted to home video when it first emerged (ie video that was never likely to be shared with history?)
Do you remember the first time someone shoved a video camera in your face? Could you guess who you were presenting yourself for?
The webcam, I think Mike is saying, puts us in a place where we can no longer make that guess.
A MESSAGE TO THE FUTURE
POST SCRIPT: This inspired me to record a message to the future on qik. If you have one, post it where-ever you like (youtube, seesmic, qik, whatever) and, please, post a link to it in the comments on this blog?
I'll add it to our list.
Alan Moore's message to the future:
Rebecca Caroe's message to the future:
The context here is the moment the vlogger faces the webcam to record something (for youtube for example) and realises that they are about to share with whoever may ever discover it on the web, for all time.
Daunting.
Some pause for thought to try to let that sink in...
Most just crash on without thought for the ever-more or the endless variety of audience for their piece-to-camera.
Rather helpfully the prof has penned this.
Here's an illuminating excerpt:
"Context collapse: an infinite number of contexts collapsing upon one another into that single moment of recording. The images, actions, and words captured by the lens at any moment can be transported to anywhere on the planet and preserved (the performer must assume) for all time. The little glass lens becomes the gateway to a blackhole sucking all of time and space – virtually all possible contexts – in upon itself."
The same weight of history applies to our blog posts (even these words as I write them...), your comments, forums, the pictures you share on flickr, the relationships you share on social networks...
As I asked Mike in the comments on his post: "Assume you make the distinction for video (as compared to our words and pictures in blogs, forums and social networks) because of the lack of ‘face-work’* in those contexts?
Mike Wesch: "*Face-work is a complex collaborative dance in which all participants and their every word, wink, gesture, posture, stance, glance, and grunt take part. In short, how we present ourselves (and by extension, who we “are”) depends a great deal on context; where we are, who we are with, and what we are doing, among many other factors.
I guess the weight of history rests upon the very words I type now. But the process of writing has been one we are used to performing without direct and real-time feedback.
Out of interest, I wonder if Mike has done a comparison with how people reacted to home video when it first emerged (ie video that was never likely to be shared with history?)
Do you remember the first time someone shoved a video camera in your face? Could you guess who you were presenting yourself for?
The webcam, I think Mike is saying, puts us in a place where we can no longer make that guess.
A MESSAGE TO THE FUTURE
POST SCRIPT: This inspired me to record a message to the future on qik. If you have one, post it where-ever you like (youtube, seesmic, qik, whatever) and, please, post a link to it in the comments on this blog?
I'll add it to our list.
- David Cushman's Message to the Future
- Mark Earls Message to the Future.
Alan Moore's message to the future:
Rebecca Caroe's message to the future:
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