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May 26, 2006

No more lectures, just podcasts

- NevilleHobson.com

The shape of things to come - a UK university lecturer says he will no longer deliver lectures to students and instead will offer them as podcasts: […] Dr Bill Ashraf, a senior lecturer in microbiology at Bradford University,... ›››

Category: Communication | Podcasting | Trends | weblogs

May 25, 2006

A Chat with Eric Mattson

- John Winsor

Eric Mattson of MarketingMonger is on a mission. His goal is to do 1,000 podcast interviews of marketers, bloggers, authors, designers, entrepreneurs, and social media innovators. So, yesterday Eric and I talked for podcast #27. If you're interested in... ›››

Category: Trends

Quote of the Day

- John Winsor

The major industrial country that gets the greenest the fastest, with the smartest technologies - that's the country that will lead the 21st century. We've got the innovators; we've got the venture capitalists. If only we had the government... ›››

Category: Trends

May 23, 2006

A Shopping Community

- John Winsor

Fellow Radarite, Alberto DeLaroca, pointed me to ShopWiki, a shopping search engine that combines "advanced Web crawling technology" with consumer-written wiki buying guides. It's an interesting mash together of tools.... ›››

Category: Trends

May 19, 2006

Quote of the Day

- John Winsor

"The Apple stores are selling digital experiences, not products Its stores can be seen as solutions boutiques. And that's the direction that selling technology to consumers, from cellphones to HDTV's, has to go to be successful." - Ted Schadler,... ›››

Category: Trends

May 18, 2006

An Overnight Sensation

- John Winsor

Kelefa Sanneh writes a marvelous article, How "Groundhog Day" Become an Overnight YouTube Sensation, in today's NY Times that gives some insight into the rapid growth in power of YouTube. What would happen if 2,000,000 viewers saw a video... ›››

Category: Trends

May 03, 2006

The shift in trust

- NevilleHobson.com

The BBC and Reuters published Trust in The Media (PDF) today: A major 10-nation public opinion poll exploring Trust in the Media has found that even though the media is more trusted than the national government in half the... ›››

Category: Events | Online Media | Trends | Web | mainstream media | weblogs

May 01, 2006

Further Blurring the Lines

- John Winsor

Joining Ford in further blurring the lines, Starbucks has hired a talent agency to help them find movie and book deals. After selling 3.5 million CDs in 2005, Howard Schultz has an opportunity to leverage his 7000 locations to... ›››

Category: Trends

Quote of the Day

- John Winsor

Alex Bodgusky was quoted today in the New York Times about Crispin's new Miller ads:"Beer is so tied in to male culture. And I think the tradition of sort of settling things over a beer and figuring out the... ›››

Category: Advertising | Trends

The multilingual blogosphere

- NevilleHobson.com

Everyone knows that the blogosphere continues to grow, still doubling in size every six months or so, maintaining a consistent three-year growth trend. But figures so far tend to relate to English-language blogs only. So it’s good to see... ›››

Category: Communication | Trends | Web | weblogs

April 28, 2006

Are You Ready for the Rise of the Neo-Greens?

- John Winsor

Being from Boulder, environmentalism and sustainability have always been a part of the local lexicon. Yet, as I have traveled, I noticed that if Boulder came to represent these movements, it was seen as wealthy, arrogant and a bit... ›››

Category: Culture | Trends | innovation

April 22, 2006

New Language

- John Winsor

It's breath-taking how quickly language changes as new words are developed. Here are two new favorites:1. "Freemium" as seen on Christopher Carfi's The Social Customer 2. "Disinhabition" as seen on Grant McCracken's This Blog Sits at theThese shifts in... ›››

Category: Culture | Storytelling | Trends

April 21, 2006

Transgenerational Spending

- John Winsor

Anna Bahney highlights an interesting trend, transgenerational spending, in the article entitled, The Bank of Mom and Dad, appearing in yesterday’s New York Times. Here’s a snippet: Middle-income parents earning less than $72,600 a year can expect to spend... ›››

Category: Trends

April 18, 2006

Podcasts growing at 15% a month - FeedBurner report

- NevilleHobson.com

In a report on podcasting to be published today, RSS feed management company FeedBurner say that their service is now managing just under 45,000 podcast feeds. Contrast this number with the 6,000 podcast feeds the company was managing at... ›››

Category: Business | Podcasting | RSS | Trends | Weblog Tools | weblogs </