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What you know, what you do, and what you own. 21 Mar 2013 | 12:00 pm
I was discussing what we do at Storythings recently with Ben Lunt, and we were talking about a interesting pattern we’d seen in some of the agencies and companies we really admire. Traditionally, crea...
What we do we mean when we talk about ‘TV’? 19 Mar 2013 | 12:09 pm
This could be a slightly obvious and pedantic post, but something keeps niggling at me when I read reports about changing audience behaviours around broadcast media. A lot of reports are using the wor...
Spooky Family At A Distance* 13 Jan 2013 | 03:15 am
I don’t travel abroad for work a lot, but when I do, it tends to be for a fair bit of time – at the moment, I’m away for a fortnight in New York. One of the hardest things about travelling is missing ...
What BARB’s error reveals about the bizarre world of TV ratings 4 Oct 2012 | 02:33 am
BARB – the organisation that measures ratings for UK TV channels – has admitted that there were errors in its tracking system, and as a result some Channel 4 and ITV shows have ended up with false rat...
The 30 year switch 3 Oct 2012 | 08:31 am
When I started working in broadcasting in 2001, the idea that digital technologies were changing the media industries was pretty much a fringe debate. Most people had barely any experience of the inte...
Is Youtube a TV Channel? 20 Sep 2012 | 02:01 am
In an interview with Broadcast Magazine last week, Simon Cowell suggested that Youtube could soon be considered competition for traditional TV Channels: “There’ll be a point in the not-too-distant fut...
The Groupon Shop 7 Dec 2011 | 01:24 am
The Groupon Shop Just around the corner from where I live is this shop. Its in a small parade opposite Portslade train station, along with a couple of barbers, a greasy spoon cafe, a bric-a-brac shop...
The New Patterns of Culture: Slow, Fast & Spiky 2 Nov 2011 | 01:42 am
A few weeks ago, I was asked to talk on a panel about Marshall McLuhan in Bristol. One of the other panellists was Paul Morley, someone I greatly admire and who created many of the culture and ideas I...
Life inside Seven Days 7 Oct 2010 | 12:37 am
[This is a piece I wrote for Broadcast Magazine, about Seven Days, a cross-platform project I'm working on in my dayjob. Posted here as its behind a paywall on their site] Something very interesting ...
The common ground between TV and Gaming 1 Sep 2010 | 02:47 am
I’ve just had an interesting email conversation with Nicholas Lovell, the excellent games consultant and Gamesbrief blogger, prompted by his appearance at the Edinburgh TV Festival on a panel about th...
