Click to download a short interview with Jon Snow at the Media Guardian Changing Media Summit (see Mediabites.com for coverage). I asked him about his view that the media should collaborate with bloggers.
The mbites.com podcast this week looked at how digital music is impacting both on music fans and the artists themselves. The guests (pictured) were Laura Lee Davies, former editor of Time Out magazine in London and a music journalist of 20 years experience, and Ben Drury, founder and managing director of 7digital.com, which provides digital downloading services to many leading brands and artists’ web sites. Download the MP3 file here
The mbites.com podcast this week looked at how digital music is impacting both on music fans and the artists themselves. The guests (pictured) were Laura Lee Davies, former editor of Time Out magazine in London and a music journalist of 20 years experience, and Ben Drury, founder and managing director of 7digital.com, which provides digital downloading services to many leading brands and artists’ web sites. Download the MP3 file here
I’m developing an event for New Media Knowledge on the new area of IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) on 25th May. I’ll be looking for speakers, participants, delegates and sponsors, so get in touch if you fall into any of those categories.
A perfect online storm is gathering against newspapers, and the editor of The Guardian knows all about it. Alan Rusbridger spoke to the Royal Society of Arts in London last Thursday night on the subject “Newspapers in the age of blogs.” The Guardian’s editor is almost certainly unique amongst British newspaper editors as having regularly supped with start-ups and Web 2.0 companies in Silicon Valley. He is trying to figure
This week Mbites.com hosted its latest “Bitecast”, featuring two guests: Alfie Dennen (left), co-founder of Moblog UK and Chris Skinner (right), co-founder of Podcast User Magazine. Download the MP3 file here (approx 19MB, 20 minutes long) or subscribe to the podcast feed and download it automatically into your favourite podcasting software and/or mobile media player device. The second in our regular series of podcasts (chaired by journalist Mike Butcher) looked
Watching coverage of the recent IPTV Forum in London, I was struck by the extent to which the telecoms industry is poised to make the same mistakes it made during the Internet boom, this time in the realm of TV. To explain. Major telcos like BT, France Telecom and others have a slight problem. Local loop unbundling has brought a number of new players into competition. Revenues from voice calls
Andrew Burke, CEO, BT Entertainment Division spoke convincingly about BT’s approach to IPTV. He noted that there is 5% growth on voice calls, but it’s swamped by what’s going on online. 60bn emails a day, 10bn SMS, 6bn instant mesages sent a day. Ultimately, this may move to the TV. Business case for IPTV is : with broadband penetration IPTV is more possible. 35% of households in the UK now
mbites has a new project. My wife had a baby boy on Friday March 3rd (yay!), so our ‘new project’ will be taking up a little time this week. Expect only light posting on this blog this week… Update: A photo from my cameraphone (a Treo 650).
Microsoft’s Origami is a joke. Does Gates really think we are going to walk around with this VAST device, as if it were a mobile? Check out the advert. Check out the guy gaming on the device on a tube station. How long would it take him to get mugged? I’d say about 10 mins in some stations in London. It’s bad enough with mobiles. As the BIMA event (note: