If possible I would love to put a bypass around the forthcoming winter. Lets be honest here Christmas is overrated. In January you will fail after 3 days to keep to an enforced health kick and only if you’re lucky February or March might involve a skiing holiday, but that’s pretty much it. So lets [...]

Over the last few weeks I’ve been using the BBC iPlayer via my cable TV service. Although it’s not so intuitive navigating with a remote, it’s still a lot nicer ‘on demand’ experience than watching on my laptop.
This creates an interesting overlap – I’m getting BBC content (which is currently paid for via the license [...]

Consider the above image. It’s an ad that we ran in the Sun today. Chances are there’s a technocrat journalist out there who’s been keeping an eye peeled for QR codes (see here, here and here for our previous posts about them) and is also a Lost fan. Hopefully, a tool intended to generate buzz [...]

Last night I was indulging in a bit of telly (misnomer, that; we should just call it “jamieolivervision” and be done with it), and during the ad breaks I found my eye regularly drawn to a small glyph, which was instantly recognisable as nothing less than the stigmatised 2012 logo, emerging now on our screens [...]

I love it when Music gets all progressive. It means that boundaries are being pushed. Recently we had the lovely Flickr Music Video Mash Up and then Prince stepped his album sales game up by offering it free with the Daily Mail, or with every purchase of a concert ticket. Then in swayed Radiohead with [...]

Today I’ve spent time with a company which has reinforced a view I’ve had for a while: The growth in participatory media is going to drive the evolution of products and services like never before.
Let me explain. The company I’ve been with today have a great product. Whatever way you want to measure it, their [...]

One trend that we’re loving at the moment is the final emergence of Urban Gaming (think flash mobbing crossed with a kind of competitive digital orienteering) as something almost mainstream.
Usually relying on a mix of online and mobile elements to push users towards some truly participatory entertainment it’s something that, while not appealing to [...]

My wife filled the car with wine this weekend (the boot, not the tank!). Usual weekend activity? Well, not entirely unusual, but in this instance she was taking advantage of Threshers 40% discount on wine and champagne with only hours to spare.
Now it has finished I can’t help but think this is one great digital [...]

OK, so it’s all getting a bit long in the tooth now, she’s even had a feature in Wired, but a quick Friday lunchtime visit to YouTube showed yet another Lonelygirl15 video making it to the first page of ‘most viewed today’ and reminded me what a phenomenon this continues to be.
Love it or hate [...]