Archive for February, 2006

Creativity and the Internet

The beauty of the internet is its low barriers to entry. In practice, anyone can create a website, state an idea or build a community. Its democratic nature means that interesting, funny, terrible or world-changing ideas can be flagged and spread in the click of a mouse. In the past you would have needed relationships [...]

UK Goes MySpace Mad

Now obviously as i’ve just talked about it, MySpace has become a cross-over hit and you can’t go five minutes without some media outlet talking about. This means it’s now officially uncool. Always the danger of mainstream media acceptance, as the Daily Show neatly demonstrates…

Moyles Joins MySpace

MySpace is the acclaimed social networking site that the kids just love. It’s grown very quickly and, more importantly, seems to have gained real traction with the audience, everyone’s got a profile. Its movement from underground hit to mainstream star happened initially with its purchase by NewsCorp for a mere $580m, since then everyone’s getting [...]

Oi! Leave It!

My friend Helen got scared by the length of my blog posts and the fact that they didn’t tell readers what I had for lunch. This, you see, is what Helen equates with top blog posting. So, today’s lunch was chicken pie, veg and a potato-y thing. It was prepared by the good people in [...]

Broadcasting to Communities

Smash! Hits, a magazine I always liked, but never bought, is closing. When asked about it, Mark Frith, an ex-editor and now Heat’s head honcho says “Today’s teens want faster, deeper information about music and can now satisfy their hunger by accessing information on a whole range of new platforms including TV, the internet, mobile [...]