http://keepfakingit.com media . sport . content . stuffedowls . ee-k-er! Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:33:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tony Juniper, the director of Friends of the Earth is stepping down this year. He writes at length in the Guardian about the issues he's faced over the past 30 years and those still in front of us. This final analysis stands out:In order to solve global problems, we need ... http://keepfakingit.com/2008/07/16/tony-juniper-global-problems-solutions/ David Kaplan at PaidContent.org looks at a skeptical report on the ability of magazines to profitably transition to digital. Nothing particularly surprising, but it is incredible to think of just how few magazines have moved successfully to the web. Magazines publishers employ a ton of smart, creative people. Why can't ... http://keepfakingit.com/2008/07/11/magazines/ There's always been new media. McLuhan traced the rise and fall of the Roman Empire to shifts in adoption, usage and availability of papyrus. Gutenberg, to paraphrase David Cameron, was the future once. So simply hailing or blaming new media for your particular organization's respective good or bad fortunes ... http://keepfakingit.com/2008/06/25/syndicate-the-conversation/ Looks like Steve Ballmer and Keepfakingit are pointing in the same direction on this broadcasters-treating-their-viewers-with-contempt theme we've been banging on about recently. Except Steveo is coming at it from a different angle. IP he says is the delivery method that will transform all media not just TV. Ballmer notes to the ... http://keepfakingit.com/2008/06/07/steve-agrees-with-keepfakingit/ Summing up keepfakingit's previous post: Broadcasters have for years in the UK shown nothing but contempt for their audience. Despite their audience paying their wages, the corporations have insisted that the AUDIENCE PAYS (through SMS, premium rate calls etc.) every time they communicate with the broadcaster. This is ridiculous. Let's examine ... http://keepfakingit.com/2008/06/06/listen-up-yall/ The BBC are in trouble again today over what is essentially information flows and how they communicate with their paying public. The Daily Mail and other fine institutions of British journalism are claiming that the Match of the Day "Goal of the Season" result has been rigged. Their evidence, a ... http://keepfakingit.com/2008/06/04/goal-of-the-season-start-respecting-us/ I'm halfway through Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's Forrester backed study on social technologies "Groundswell". Their definition of groundswell: A social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than from traditional institutions like corporations. 100 pages in there hasn't been anything earth ... http://keepfakingit.com/2008/05/31/social-media-toolsets-the-us-vs-uk/ Keepfakingit writes one post on the impact of technology on society and then along come a whole bus-like fleet. So keepingitbrief, here's quick comment on Jeff Jarvis' post this week on the subject of media singularity. Jarvis makes a couple of points. 1. The internet is not a medium but a place. 2. ... http://keepfakingit.com/2008/05/29/media-exclusion-is-plural/ A week ago I was on a web seminar call with Nick Carr, journalist, dismisser of corporate IT and author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the world from Google to Edison. Having just finished reading said TBS I was looking forward to getting up close to Carr's ideas. The seminar was ... http://keepfakingit.com/2008/05/28/the-dangers-of-social-exclusion-via-social-media/ Big thinking critical technology theory, yep, that's what it takes to shake Keepfaking it from its slumber. Well that's what we're looking for in life and we've found plenty of it at Clay Shirky's shirky.com. But before we get into the heavy stuff, what is it with Gilligan's Island? Talk TV ... http://keepfakingit.com/2008/05/17/social-surplus-are-things-really-going-to-get-better/