Kodak news illustrates state of print media #winterlude3

This year so far is not giving me much expectation that print magazines will continue all that longer for business to business.

The news about Kodak is definitely news.

But WhatTheyThink is not active till Monday. The website has a link to Reuters. Maybe this link was placed by a robot or there may be somebody actively in edit mode.

By the way, WhatTheyThink has no print version. It is just a website.

Printweek will not have a printed version till Friday next week. Meanwhile there is a news item partly based on a report in the Wall Street Journal

This has several comments that look at the probable consequences in terms of products available for the print industry. So forms of citizen journalism still have a future.

Of course the print version of Printweek will have something to say when it arrives.

The news of 2012 could well turn out to include further moves online at Haymarket and reduced pages in the printed Guardian. 
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Myriad from Phonic FM to home video via CES #winterlude3

I enjoyed the Wild Show today on Phonic FM. We can switch on the Myriad system if the next presenter is not arriving but I don't understand how it works, It must be possible to influence what it chooses in the gaps between actual presenters.

Checking out the CES show next week I find that Myriad will be there and the companmy covers most mobile devices as well as radio stations. This video is about extending the TV at home.

So eventually listening to radio / watching TV could be either setting up the robot at home or connecting to the robot in the studio. Presenters shuffle keywords at some point.

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Adobe not at BETT, schools will have to go to Las Vegas

Adobe not at BETT this year, maybe because the marketing spend is now on tablets, Flash video etc

not the sort of thing you should waste time on during school

but maybe there is an educational benefit from Las Vegas and consumer electronics? 

more in this blog later, sometimes i just put things in the find what the spiders will connect it with

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Michael Gove at BETT, will the UK get much mindshare? #winterlude3

I have been searching blogs and websites for any news on what Michael Gove or the Department for Education has 

to say about BETT. He will definitely be there and he is sometimes positive about technology. For example-  

Michael Gove on technology at the Policy Exchange this morning:
‘ICT has a huge role to play. I think technology will be playing a larger and larger role in how we make our schools work more effectively in the future. I will be saying more about that soon.
But it’s absolutely right, yes, that both our teachers and students can work from home with the imaginative use of technology and I hope in the future we will be able to make it clear how with the best use of technology we can help parents become more involved in their children’s education, help children learn faster and make sure assessment is better designed to be in their interests.’


However since BECTA was done away with I don't get the impression that there is a UK policy on technology for education. The UK presence at BETT seems a bit weak. The BBC was told not to compete in this space by media such as the Guardian. The BBC continues to have a role but it is not recognised at an event such as BETT.

However other countries are promoting themselves. Korea Digital has the Science Cube linked to a take on science.    

http://www.sciencecube.com/Eng/index.asp

The Supreme Education Council - Qatar is on Stand T34  

http://www.english.education.gov.qa/

Media Development Authority of Singapore is on stand D101
www.mda.gov.sg

apologies for the formatting going awry

anyway my point is that BETT may end up like Wimbledon, a jolly good show with Cliff Richard once in a while if we are lucky. Of course I could be wrong and Michael Gove may announce some convincing policy that will secure a future for UK education. But a blog or links is sometimes useful to follow up an event.

 

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@gifted_giraffe Catchup on 2012 so far, forgot image issue resolved short term

Hello Gifted Giraffe

You tweeted to ask what sort of image I needed. I forgot that actually a short term fix was discovered at the end of last year.

This shows a giraffe, maybe not you exactly, but at least an indication of how you might look in the Phonic studio. You can tweet us between 10 and 12 on a Thursday morning. Or we are in the cafe for a while afterwards. If you wandered over to the steps somebody would notice and find us. Actually Facebook for the Wild Show is better as we check this before the show and sometimes lose track, even of answering the phone.

I am interested in social media and how culture changes. Galleries seem to be dealing with social media but some conventions stay much the same. Current show at Spacex may be about mobile phones or mobility but I was not able to record sound at the intro talk or photograph the speakers or any visual content. I heard that the artists may have been at RAMM on a Tuesday but could not find out how to attend.

So I have posted a YouTube clip of some sound from the Wild Show. I am becoming a sound artist as well as a Photoshop trainee because then I can mess about with sound and vision as journalism or at least blogging. The proper art has a lot of issues around it I find.

As I understand it the Ghostwriter project is a phone scheme where you bring your own hardware and dial in. Not an app and no mp3 to download. No samples available at whatever short length as could be used on radio.

I can understand that if there is a watercolour on loan from the Louvre you might not want to pass it round in a cafe. But a show about mobility and phones could be different. 

Don't worry about anything urgent. There are talks coming up in the next couple of months so maybe some of this is under review.

If you do find some images or sound files, please have a look at Creative Commons. You could reach a wider audience.

Hope 2012 is ok so far.

This tweet is extended via Posterous.
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txt continues, In Our Time txt tech stopped with Gutenberg #winterlude3

Still listening to Melvyn Bragg on txt etc.

I think the rest of the week is on science, religion and literature. So today may be the end of general tech.  It seems to have shifted from the process of writing to the wonders of the book itself. So my guess previously that Wordstar and after would get only a few minutes was way off.

Nothing on industrial paper making or the paperback. Maybe they will turn up as science.

Two and a half hours of radio, quite a long time.

I may try to find other bits of sound. So far most of the links on the BBC website are to Cambridge and the British Library. Radio is changing to include social media so there could be contributions from further away.

The process of writing changes with tech such as read / write web. Radio is moving more quickly even though the files need more bandwidth. Maybe the organisational structures are a larger issue.
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Consumer Electronics context for video, social media, txt #winterlude3

http://technologizer.com/2012/01/02/the-more-ces-stays-the-same-the-more-it-changes/

Link found through Twitter

also this one

CES is often a sudden shock that announces a new year and that the holiday is over.

The archive shows that television has always been there. The MediaWeek report shows that watching video online is still growing. A guess could be that slower growth is because of better boxes like TIVO so the social media mix continues.

Local television experiments in the UK are still on a broadcast model. I think bits and pieces on YouTube etc could still work out as something.

Expect dramatic announcements from Las Vegas that relate to actual products in Exeter High Street UK sometime in the next year or so. The John Lewis store is not really ready but there is a Richer Sounds at the far end of Sidwell Street.

#winterlude3 continues to the end of Jan. 
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Creative Commons conversation is also about journalism @BBCClick

So far Click on BBC World Service has not objected to the extracts fro the Click podcast in my recent Wild Show. I don't thin k it should be a problem. The Click shows are available for download and the podcast mentions the mashup as a form that is not to be discouraged. 

I think the Wild Show could continue to explore Creative Commons during the year. When Dan Jarvis MP visited we talked about Creative Commons and later Cllr Paul Bull commented on the benefits of Creative Commons for public figures and public debate.

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How to finance music production is a continuing issue. We have broadcast some of the Phonic Xmas Party on the Wild Show. Conversation will continue through the Analog2Digital event. The sound recording of the Wild Show can be available after brodcast in various forms. BBC Click are welcome to use any of the interviews as they turn up. Also anyone with opinions is welcome as a guest or to suggest links.
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why radio relates to #winterlude3

Previous post tagged as #Winterlude3 but not explained as such.

The Winterlude is a period of reflection that seems to get longer. This year continues to end of Jan with Learning technologies and without frontiers.

During the year I will continue promotion for Deming secrets and management theory at work #mtw using social media. It turns out that sound can be mixed with YouTube ok for music and speech so why not for conferences?

I might try to interest Chris and JD and the Phonic email list in a) system review b) dynamic capability if these are the best terms. Not sure dynamic capability has any proscription to offer but going back to learning organisations is also possible. Leadership is very distributed at Phonic as far as I can tell. 

more later, shopping window till the next pause.

Formal learning not much disruption , informal learning rapid change. Can quality theory keep up? note to come back to. 
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Wild 11 the archive is taking shape #winterlude3

The holidays continue but I had to concentrate when Chris asked me to fill in for the Thursday Wild Show. As it happened he turned up during the second hour and it should be normal next week. I did not rave on with my own opinions for ninety minutes or so but I did comment on two extracts from Click. This section is now on Soundcloud so could be found

Previously the Wild Show had a visit from Dan Jarvis MP and later Councillor Paul Bull commented on the advantages of Creative Commons for content from public figures. Copyright for music and radio continues to be discussed.

I hope this clip can continue on Soundcloud. Over the holiday I tried to use Soundcloud to get round the problem that Phonic presenters are away from Exeter or prefer to stay home or whatever the reason is that the music stays on autopilot. There ought to be some way for people anywhere to send in an hour or two of sound. How the management works out what is broadcast I don't know.

The collection from the Phonic Xmas Party and Stan Hacking loaded ok on Soundcloud. It is all live recording. But an Otis sequence was rejected. It started with a Jay Zee track edited to just half a minute or so. The language rapidly oversteps the OFCOM guidelines. But this was enough for a Def Jam objection. My guess is that most of the Otis catalogue is not that heavily protected as there is almost no stock in record shops. But once sampled by a current artist, things may change. Not sure about this. I just wanted to find a way to get options into the Phonic system. A playlist on YouTube is ok.

By the way two years ago we played a track from Aretha -  This Christmas and spoke about it then put the sound on YouTube with a very short extract from the track, mostly just saying it was available. An objection from Warner meant this could not load. I don't fully understand this as I think there is no UK distribution for This Christmas or A Woman Falling Out of Love but maybe Aretha's voice is recognised by the system and Warner has first choice on what to do next.

Anyway, season's greetings to Click and the BBC World Service. Hope this clip can stay available and that conversation continues in 2012.

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Learning Without Frontiers from previously, continues at Olympia

 
Could be a keynote at Online Information. BETT is soon, then Learning Technologies and Without Frontiers in the same building.
 
So far I have only watched about five minutes of this. Seems about right for YouTube but I will come back to it. He starts with comparing the large effect of the internet on informal learning and the apparently stable situation with formal education. This is still the case. Academic journals continue on a print model even though the libraries now prefer the digital versions.
 
Will disruption be sudden if it ever happens?
 
Tomorrow I am doing the whole two hours of the Wild Show on Phonic FM. Previously I have either done short bits when Chris is there or JD has been in the studio with his excellent har disc that copes with any situation. So there may be some pauses. But I think sound is now where print is heading.
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#winterlude3 wake up to BBC Radio 4 but can't remember details on eBook etc.

Woke up this morning to Today onRadio 4. I think it was someone from Harper Collins but can't be sure. Anyway the point seemed to be that a lot of devices were given over Christmas so e-book sales will have another boost. Then there was discussion about how printed books are still wonderful and you would not want expensive gadgets in a messy kitchen. Actually I think there could be a screen in the fridge for restocking or next to the microwave with how things ought to look.

As this was part of the business news it is hard to find on the BBC Today page. A search on Harper Collins finds the New York Times and      a guess that this will have been another e-book Christmas. But the news seems to be that libraries are now the big danger to builing eboook sales on the gadget gifts.

Apparently Simon and Shuster have never allowed public libraries to stock e-books.

So this could be the next topic for the guardians of civilisation close to the Today studio and worried about The Book. For Public Libraries, it could be a difficult new year.

For #winterlude3 this is a step change. After Christmas is definitely different.

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The business news with Lesley Curwen.

if this can find it somewhere
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Radio links, Seasonal greet from Wild Show on Exeter Phonic FM

Couple of mp3s loaded to Soundcloud, the party one was broadcast on Thursday as part of an extended Wild Show.

not sure if they can be used during the holiday. Phonic and most radio should develop as an extension of social media but at the moment it needs someone in the studio quite often.

I tried to do another sequence round Otis but Soundcloud objected on copyright grounds. So here is a YouTube version-

more next year in various formats

or search on "Otis, Christmas"

hope all well
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after the Winterlude things may be different #winterlude3

The world seems to be closing down for the holidays. But things shift as well. Theere could be a lot of mobile devices as presents so thbis would sink in.

I discover that Haymarket will speak at an event about virtual events and hybrid. 

Strangely there is not a lot else online about this virtual event that I can find at the moment. But this is something to come back to in 2012. Will Haymarket be asw interested in hard copy business to business magazines?

Also to look forward to is the Higher Ed Tech conference day at the Consumer Electronics show

I won't be in Las Vegas myself but will be watching the tweets with interest. Much tech becomes consumer electronics and higher ed can benefit just like the rest of us.
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Test of Giraffe videoconference at Wild Show on Phonic FM

Really interesting Wild Show today. We had al ook at a transister radio. Sound will turn up later pn Facebook - Wild Show.

Meanwhile I have a new Twitter friend = Gifted Giraffe.

@gifted_giraffe

I am hoping for an image without any copyright problems, not always easy when a gallery is involved. It will have to be Photoshop or something, we are not going to fit a giraffe into the Phonic studio for an interview.

This collage has a photo by Chris / JD and Creative Commons photo from Chester Zoo,

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Deming Secrets / #mtw3 practice

The promotion for Deming Secrets and #mtw3 will include LinkedIn and other social media. ( see previous post for details)

Social media allows the same basic content in many formats - email text edited for print, fiction read aloud for mp3, video options on an e-reader. So references from a conference can go back to journals or contribute to future TV or in variations of loop.

Social media can exist on very low budgets, including almost free video. Phone cameras are getting better, especially the wifi options that make rapid uploads realistic. There is a budget constraint on broadcast video but this can be explored. It might be an option for the face-to-face version of #mtw3.

Twinity and other virtual worlds could offer linking clips between bits of video. Twinity London now covers a fairly wide area, including the Work Foundation and Cursitor Street, fairly close to the CQI. With a budget it may be possible to recreate the interior of both the CQI and the Work Foundation. Both have kitchens so another Twinity kitchen could serve as a location.

Meanwhile there is a Twinity St Pauls so Tent City University can be collaged with a virtual world. As I live in Exeter I am also looking at the Free University near Exeter Cathedral.

My guess is that Critical Management Studies (CMS) is now so widely citated in journals that it may be difficult to find representative content in social media. The conversations around Tent City University could be another route. The aim will be to maintain at least a balanced set of options through a range of media.

By the way, the Twinity interior for St Pauls is fantastic.
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Deming Secrets / #mtw3 - theory

I am helping to promote two events for nexdt year. Both exist online in varying proportion. Deming Secrets will be live on March 1st and is based on theMoSO model. There is a LinkedIn  page for a CQI subgroup. Management Theory at Work 3 ( #mtw3 ) continues conderences from arpoind ten years agao. It is currently a blog and LinkedIn group and a cloud on Cloudworks. There may be a face-to-face version ion September at the Work Foundation, now linked to Lancaster University.

http://mtw3.blogspot.com/

I did papers for the first two mtw conferences, on ISO 9000 and Deming. I think the "Deming Secrets" may turn out to be what Deming discovered in Japan, possibly described as HR rather than QA. I don't think Deming had just one set of ideas for ninety years.

I used to work in the print industry and it seems to me this is now definitely in a time of disruption. It is quite hard to tell because in the UK you need to read Printweek to discover how the Guardian print operation is re-organised and then read the Guardian to find out how Haymarket is gradually moving magazines online. But in general it seems the scope for continuous improvement is limited. Media organisations are part of a wider social context. Deming did explore this sort of situation but it is not often considered.

Quality theory is seen by academics as an application so not very interesting. The "new economics" can include a theory of the firm and why they close.

I hope there will be some connections between the conversations about learning and quality. One way to support this is by imagining a walk between the CQI near Chancery Lane and the Work Foundation near Victoria. In Twinity, a virtual world, this takes about half an hour if you run. There can also be still photos and collages for people not frequenting virtual worlds. And txt.

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