About as far from Ryanair as air travel will ever get…
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Lovely network analysis visualisation of the US senate
BARACK OBAMA’S visit last week to the Republicans’ issues retreat in Baltimore was a pretty daring move. To envision how daring, it’s useful to take a look at this visualisation of the Senate’s social graph over the past 19 years, posted back in May by Andrew Odewahn, an information-design expert.
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“i” symbol will raise fears about advertising, but increase web literacy too…
The icon will be used in online ads that go to users based on demographics.
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A mockup of an ad that includes the Power-I icon.
Trying to ward off regulators, the advertising industry has agreed on a [...]
By me on the iCrossing Connect blog: How engagement measurement will change the world
Last Friday I presented at the NMAlive event* on Online Engagement Demysitified event, running with the hopeful title “How Engagement Measurement Will Change the World” (see slides above).
As ever, it was a good opportunity to revisit the theme of engagement measurement and think about how we talk about it at iCrossing.
We’ve effectively spent the last [...]
Online media: Finding balance between stock & flow
I’m grateful to Lloyd Shepherd for the point to a post by Robin Sloan called Stock & Flow. Recalling studying for his degree in economics, Robin recalls:
There are two kinds of quantities in the world. Stock is a static value: money in the bank, or trees in the for est. Flow is a rate of [...]
Five Things I know about journalism (news:rewired)
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Adam Tinworth (of @adders fame on Twitter) is head of blogging, social etc. at Reed Business Information, and one of the real pioneers of online journalism.
In this slide show he shares five of the most important things he has learned in the past few years. They are simple and compelling rules [...]
Photos from Likemind Brighton January 2010
I seem to be getting to Likemind Brighton more regularly these days, which is great. It’s monthly gathering in the Redroaster coffee shop, sometimes with a theme – January’s was bringing ?an object that made sound.
You never really know who you’ll meet or what you’ll talk about but I always come away after an hour [...]
The Bad Science of scaremongering stats about music downloads
You are killing our creative industries. “Downloading costs billions,” said the Sun. “MORE than 7 million Brits use illegal downloading sites that cost the economy billions of pounds, government advisers said today. Researchers found more than a million people using a download site in ONE day and estimated that in a year they would use [...]
Nice 2010 trends slides and links from Dan Calladine of Carat
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Really enjoyed this presentation from from Dan Calladine of Carat’s Next Generation media series.
I enjoyed it as a link-smorgasbord of interesting sources that fit into various digital trends.
Particularly pleased for the prompt to take a look at stories like:
Twitter predicting the success of the movie New Moon (implies that people’s reactions on [...]
