New technology boosts the old
Tweet As cheerleaders for incumbent media often point out, the old is rarely replaced by the new. Newspapers weren’t killed by radio, radio wasn’t k...
Tag: books
Datafication
Tweet “Big data” as a term reminds me of “social media” a few years ago. It is in danger – through mis-use and over-use – of...
Why I finish books
Tweet Living with ebooks, as I have been since I bought my first iPad a few years back, has changed my reading. It’s also given me more ways of understand...
Hi-fidelity reading
Tweet The paperback book I am reading right now is The Big Sleep and Other Novels, by Raymond Chandler. It’s a lovely Penguin Classics imprint, thick and...
Book review: Culture Shock, by Will McInnnes
Tweet Disclaimer: I know Will. We work in the same town, in the same line of business and have evolved our approaches in parallel, you might say. We̵...
Long term trends: The Ngrams Viewer
Tweet “A database of intentions” is how John Battelle described Google. It is a thrilling concept, at times unsettling, that you can see into the se...
Holiday reading
Tweet In case you are looking for some ideas about what to read in the remainder of the summer, here are the books that have tickled my fancy over the summer mo...
Storytelling with sound, Paul Bennun and Nick Ryan – Notes from The Story Part 4
Tweet Another perspective on storytelling came from game designer Paul Bennun and sound designer and composer Nick Ryan, who collaborated most recently on the i...
Three beautiful storytelling approaches from the web
Tweet This is a post about three lovely things that are all about using technology to help tell stories in new ways. Storify In private alpha development at the...
Facebook vs. websites: sometimes Facebook is better
Tweet There’s a kind of web media theologians’ debate that goes on at the moment over whether brands should ditch their websites and move their web ...