Uncertain Knowledge

We know less about the future than we’ve ever done. Because I just turned up on technology voices I though this argument needed a revisit this time for a technology audience.

Tomorrow’s Post

Won't be much of it – I'm in a briefing from Microsoft on Vista and the Office launch. But will get back to you with news on Wednesday.

But hey, in the meantime take a look around, click the tag cloud or browse the categories. The site's starting to take shape.

Podcasts

Pluggd podcast community launched today

Seattle based start-up Pluggd opened their podcast directory for public use today; the company aims to make podcast listening easier for nontechnical users.

That’s the take from TechCrunch. Interesting how podcasting is getting organised. I’m hoping to launch my own podcast series next week which is part of the reason I’m spending a day in Dublin, sitting in with Microsoft Vista developers and then with podcastingireland.ie sorting out the pod.

As a journalist I never did radio but like everybody else now there’s nothing stopping me.

technorati tags:podcasting

New Advertising Models

San Francisco based GoodStorm will soon launch a new program called MeCommerce that will allow bloggers to insert product listings in a javascript and iframe box on their sites and keep 50% of the retail mark-up for themselves.

TechCrunch » Blog Archive » GoodStorm to offer e-commerce widget with 50% revenue split for bloggers

Just shows that nobody and no model is invulnerable. Good Storm is surely a threat to Amazon which gives paltry affiliate fees, and to the affiliate model which Amazon spawned. Companies that use affiliate programmes and performance-based advertising (the current buzz) will have to rethink their margins.

technorati tags:advertising

New Blog Site Update

I'm having problems with column alignment on the new blog site, so please do not go there yet. Hoping it will be remedied by tomorrow.

New Media, Old Values

The internet mob builds a worldwide web of punishment. Judicial forms of humiliating offenders have long been banned but they are making a sinister return online, says John-Paul Flintoff

The internet mob builds a worldwide web of punishment – Sunday Times – Times Online

I was struck also by the report above. I've said before I think the motivation for content co-creation, user content and all the rest, at least for an older age group, is to seek a return to a more moral period in our history. So new technology, old values.

What the Sunday Times records here is going a bit far of course but it does underline the fact that we need to understand change across a wide range of activity and values, which also goes back to something I've written on earlier, the need for the old guard in the IT industry to open up to new values.

technorati tags:values, content

Go Here: www.mediangler.com

I'm trying to transfer the blog over to a dedicated host/domain. The reason is so I can get more control over the look and feel and add in tag clouds and related stuff. Please go here and re-book mark the site. I'll keep this blog up for a few weeks yet and run the two concurrently for a few days at least.

Old Media’s Decline

This is from yesterday's Sunday Times in the UK. Now the Sunday Times is ultimately owned by a competitor of ITV so scepticism is warranted. Still ITV has shipped half its audience over the past twenty years and is now sacking staff.

"Investors switch off from ITV. Falling audiences and ad revenues put channel boss Charles Allen’s future in doubt, write Louise Armitstead and Dominic Rushe."

Investors switch off from ITV – Sunday Times – Times Online

As well as sacking people it's looking at reducing programming budgets. The response is typical across old media companies, reducing capacity in an era of media expansion. In the what we're seeing is companies being allowed toconvey an impression that they are under threat when in reality the are failing to seize opportunity. Who deserves firing?

technorati tags:old, media, new, media