http://www.chrisdymond.com My (probably quixotic) attempt to track the important trends in digital culture and innovation Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:52:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I saw a tweet from Laurence Lessig this morning pointing me at a YouTube video by Julian Sanchez ('Normative') in which he discusses developments in remix culture... and it got me thinking: I was never much of a believer in Gen X's "postmodern eclecticism", but I do understand that as cultural ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalNoveltyWatch/~3/Bld8xXuz_2M/ http://www.chrisdymond.com/2010/02/remixing-is-important-and-not-important/ There are plenty of things I can think of that the Internet doesn't do very well yet, as far as I'm aware at least. So in the hope that blogging about them either causes someone to go "Oi, what about this brilliant thing over here?!" or prompts someone with more ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalNoveltyWatch/~3/ZTUEr2QTads/ http://www.chrisdymond.com/2010/01/things-the-internet-is-missing-1-a-central-way-of-managing-my-stakes/ So, the UK Top 40 is probably going to start including listens using streaming services like Last.fm, Napster, iMeem and We7, meaning that streaming services are starting to account for a significant proportion of UK music consumption. And the record labels have finally reached a decent compromise deal with the online ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalNoveltyWatch/~3/GkVQuORRMVQ/ http://www.chrisdymond.com/2009/07/the-music-piracy-war-is-over/ Can anyone spot why this review of an app on facebook: Best flickr app on facebook that I could find - Zuport is flakey, the official one is even flakier. One thing I'd change: the info box is a good idea, but instead of listing all the groups you're a member ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalNoveltyWatch/~3/VJGuHDNAEos/ http://www.chrisdymond.com/2009/06/sometimes-facebook-just-smacks-you-in-the-face-with-bad-usability/ Seeing as the media (especially the news media) doesn't really do what I'd like it to do yet, I've been thinking about what kind of media world we're going to inhabit once the next round of this revolution is over. Here's what I think is going to happen... 1. All Media companies ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalNoveltyWatch/~3/uKodX16m3Rw/ http://www.chrisdymond.com/2009/06/observations-on-the-state-of-media/ So Don Tapscott says: If markets are the best mechanism for determining how goods and resources are allocated, why isn’t everybody an independent contractor at every step along the way in production? The answer is collaboration costs. Because the web drops collaboration costs, consumers can now produce. ...and I think he's quite ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalNoveltyWatch/~3/9vKNiQqDtCU/ http://www.chrisdymond.com/2009/06/wheres-our-journalist-discovery-engine/ Over the last ten years, I have spent countless hours ripping CDs to mp3 files and tagging them up. As well as transferring from CD, I have bought digital music files, I subscribe to Napster and I have a Last.fm account as well as one for Deezer. Each of these ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalNoveltyWatch/~3/u665-mk4wt8/ http://www.chrisdymond.com/2009/06/whats-wrong-with-digital-music-collections/ Summary of a talk by Ian Ayres at the London School of Economics on the 13th September 2007 on the subject of his book "Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to be Smart". Ian Ayres is an economist and lawyer, and is the William K. Townsend Professor at Yale ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalNoveltyWatch/~3/twFkPxC1Ymo/ http://www.chrisdymond.com/2009/01/ian-ayres-super-crunchers-why-thinking-by-numbers-is-the-new-way-to-be-smart/ Panel discussion on the subject of Innovation technology conducted at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in February 2007. The speakers were: Richard Lambert (Director General, CBI) Professor Mark Dodgson (Technology and Innovation Management Centre, University of Queensland) Professor David Gann (Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London) Peter Bressington ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalNoveltyWatch/~3/GOMSSCEcsi8/ http://www.chrisdymond.com/2008/10/innovation-technology-panel-at-the-rsa/ Summary of a talk by Clay Shirky at the RSA on the 18th March 2008 on the subject of his book “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organising without Organisations”. Clay Shirky is a writer, teacher and consultant on the social and economic effects of Internet Technologies. He is adjunct professor ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalNoveltyWatch/~3/b4I5_iS56Cc/ http://www.chrisdymond.com/2008/09/clay-shirky-here-comes-everybody-the-power-of-organising-without-organisations/