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Video Killed The News Story

Here’s some recent headlines from a few technology and marketing websites. Both are about different stories, but the headlines all effectively say the same thing. Online video more popular than blogging and social networking Video Marketing Tops Search Marketing as a #1 Priority for Brands and Agencies in 2010? A lot of stories like this [...]

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Economics and Ecology

I’m a big fan of the VlogBrothers, two brothers who make daily youtube videos addressed to each other (but also to a wider audience). In today’s video one of the brothers, Hank, attempts to give the other brother – and the rest of the viewers – a quick overview of “Ecosystem Services“. To quote Hank [...]

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Murdoch’s Paywall

There has been a lot debate online recently surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s change of mind about paywalls for his online newspapers. I’ve been reading a huge number of arguments on both sides (including a 40min video interview with Rupert himself) and am sad to say that most of them seem to be missing the point. Earlier [...]

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Content is the Advertisement

This is an idea I touched on in a previous post called signs. The post was about a nice short film, which centred around a guy and a girl falling for each other through a series of short messages (it’s well worth the watch). I suggested that this kind of short film could have been [...]

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Using Downtime to Upskill

For reasons that I don’t need to explain, many people are finding they have a lot of free time on their hands these days. If you’re out of work there are many people giving great advice on using social media and the internet to upskill yourself and get back in the game. I think this [...]

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