Category Media
Hybrid journalism: mixing pros and amateur-generated content
MacArthur launches $50 million digital media and learning initiative
Samsung’s DigitAll brand magazine on greatness in the digital era
Bob Jacobson on advertising and experience design
Bob Jacobson is one of the more thoughtful thinkers on experience design and the commentary he provides on his Total Experience blog is therefore frequently cited on Putting People First. Yesterday he analysed how the advertising profession has opened a…
Fabrica at Centre Pompidou, Paris
Established in 1994 on the initiative of Luciano Benetton and Oliviero Toscani, Fabrica is a communications research centre whose range of activities extends from graphic design to cinema, taking in industrial design, writing, interactive media, photography and music on the…
Schools and universities setting up shop in Second Life [USA Today]
Living a second life [The Economist]
Yahoo! study on the internet, Family 2.0 and the 43-hour day [Reuters]
Google’s VP of user experience makes cover of Newsweek
Yahoo! teams with Current TV on viewer created content [Techcrunch]
Philips unveils innovative Lifestyle Home prototype
Design to the people! [International Herald Tribune]
Portable content not connecting with consumers [Reuters]
Ars Electronica on simplicity
BBC Wap use flourishing in Africa
Africa, in particular Nigeria, is dominating international mobile phone access to the BBC’s website. According to July’s statistics, 61% of the BBC’s international Wap users came from Nigeria and 19% from South Africa. Africa is the world’s largest-growing mobile phone…
‘Digital natives’ changing office culture and news organisations
Most UK youth on social networking sites [Financial Times]
Swisscom study on how we use communication means [Business Week]
Digital diversity – the end game?
David Gyimah, a video journalist and the director of the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC), has written a thought-provoking article on the future of diversity in the rapidly developing world of the net and connected mobile devices. “If the net…