Still not much interest in #diana1love on Twitter. I still think Diana Ross version of One Love in My Lifetime could be a hit.
But there is no Motown promotion apparently. Can't find anyone who answers.
I saw an audience with Diana Ross on UK TV quite recently. But checking Tivo it turns out to be ITV3 and the Wikipedia informs me the original was 1999. So I may be a decade out or so.
Also found Innocence from 1992
80s fans please note 1992 is not really the 90s, it is late 80s in some cases.
I may have been half asleep when I heard the Today prog this morning. But I thought I heard Evan Davis advocating the low hanging fruit of amazing broadband in central London and not to worry about the countryside where there is not even a prospect of gas.
No mention of the proposal to change the use of spectrum for broadcast television. This may have come up later but I don't remember it. Thing is, this could change sound media quite a lot, as well as print tv and whatever else.
I have been trying to promote #EX1to4 as a search tag. Used with global media such as YouTube this could work quite well. Or any other search term based on a locality, real or imagined. Twinity islands are of interest for some people even the new ones trying to get round copyright on map data. I guess the House of Lords has an interest in the old counties, but postcodes seem a good place to start.
They do include some accurate info about UK broadband.
Like other technological advances, broadband has inspired devoted evangelists and we received evidence from a number of them. To their disappointment, when it comes to the most highly quoted broadband league tables, the UK does not—on most indices—have a place on the podium. Take average connection speed; according to the most recent Akamai ‘State of the Internet’ report, the UK ranks 16th in Europe and 25th globally.3 Some who contributed evidence to this inquiry have lamented that the UK is therefore “achieving speeds more than three times slower than South Korea.”4 Moreover, in the UK, 14% are receiving speeds of less than 2 megabits per second (Mbps),5 regarded by the Government as the minimum speed which allows you to use the internet reasonably effectively.
Let us see an end to the unconvincing claims that the UK will be best in the world for broadband by some mysterious date in the future. Accurate figures please of what is currently available and how it compares.
But the main news is around Para 141.
We recommend that the Government, Ofcom and the industry begin to consider the desirability of the transfer of terrestrial broadcast content from spectrum to the internet and the consequent switching off of broadcast transmission over spectrum, and in particular what the consequences of this might be and how we ought to begin to prepare.
The consequence would be fairly disruptive for the organisation of media. Local broadcasting could compete depending on what the audience was looking for. Of course the view from central London is always interesting.
There has been a comment on previous post with this diagram.
I can just about see that. Generalisition and management respibility is the one I find most difficult. I suppose it is theorising the general purpose? but presumably in Kolb it is theorising about the instrumental aspect of whatever the action is for as well.
John Burgoyne
So I'm encouraged to continue with this. Some of the words will be different and need to be explored. Turning the diagrams round may be confusing. But I will try to relate this to the Deming SIG project on a Model of Sustainable Organisation and the third conference on Management Theory at Work.
"Scientific Leadership" appears to be not the same words as "Management Responsibility" but if we understood the process a bit better they may turn out to be related.
How to do a blog? Especially with topics that relate over various spaces, and the content often comes from long ago.
Previous post on theory and media, but here are some topics that may come up during August.
YouTube takes ages to find anything. That's what I experience anyway for clips I post. I have tried to load Marnie and the Fallen Apples ahead of Sidmouth but they still have very few views.
The Pyrates will not be in Sidmouth this year but I did record them recently at the Sorry Head in Exeter
I think there will be some R&B at Dukes. The Mama Stone house band for example. And the Sound of the Sirens.
Meanwhile I am getting nowhere on promoting the Diana Ross version of One Love in My Lifetime. Still think it could be a dance hit but I may be out of time by a decade or so.
If the weather is good the Wild Show may explore the Exeter canal etc. this week or next. the Cozmic Meadow is a track we played from Rafel Rodney. It could be in Exeter or anywhere, maybe the Lee Valley. The Cozmic Meadow in Sidmouth is on the Eastern side by the river, a scenic route to the Volunteer. There is plenty of space for a blowup Stonehenge.
Future Wild Show may discuss Any High Street continuing at RAMM. Is Exeter really like Weimar Berlin, Hogarth London? Or has there been some tinkering with the source material?
August probably is a good time for moving outside of time and space. It seems to happen anyway. Most people are on holiday so there is more input from the archive and accidents.
In September there will be Cross Media Live. I think this could be a significant shift for print culture. For a start it is organised by the same people as IPEX. But also it seems to be covering digital ok.
I work with #mosocoop , a project to update Deming , and #mtw3 on management learning. Both could contribute theory and learn from technology. So far there are no dates or arrows.
On LinkedIn I am contributing to Cross Media Live discussions about newspapers/magazines shift to online, Adobe, and Google TV. Probably I will stick to these headings.
the Financial Times, which barely competes with the Mail or the BBC in the attention stakes, now has 301,471 digital subscribers according to its parent company Pearson. That is more than the FT's headline printed circulation of 297,225 – which includes 30,000 freebies
So there are precise numbers but Dan Sabbagh apparently considers the FT a special case, not a model for other news organisations. Still, the dates when digital numbers compare with print are of interest in various situations.
About the Guardian itself there is not so much info, except that digital advertising revenue was £14.7m , up 26% on year to March. Sabbagh estimates the Times income from the iPad at £19m after Apple's cut. The implication seems to be that a future of global advertising could be a better bet. But ABC numbers about UK print are not the whole story.
Also in print there is an interview with NBV anchor Al Michaels. No mention of the Twitter #nbcfail comments on broadcast delay and edits, but I don't know when this was written. The web page is different but for me the interesting comment is from Jeff Jarvis in Buzzmachine
By the way I still don't know the actual date that the Guardian formally stopped the arrangement for a regular Jeff Jarvis contribution in print. I noticed they became less frequent but I still can't get any direct info.
James OReillyThe product/service arrow was flipped around in your diagramme, so the process remains the same in the inner domain. The above is the ISO 9001:2000 diagramme including Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) processes interfaced to Customer requirements (input) and satisfaction (output)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen This group addresses the full ISO model.
I have had another look at a diagram I saw during the week. On Facebook there is some detailed discussion on virtual worlds, learning and quality. I can't really follow which group covers which aspect but I can see how it could connect with other groups on LinkedIn for example.
Here is my revised collage and the diagram ( see previous posts ) I change the direction of the loop to fit better with what different people expect. #mosocoop is a Model of Sustainable Development based on Deming ideas. #mtw3 is a third conference on Management Theory at Work. Search on # for more. I will put some links back to this post.
The original diagram is about learning so I have pasted in the stages on quality where they seem to fit. Words could change but something like this could work as a way of connecting ideas.
"Scientific Leadership" could be a process based on measurement. It would be roughly where Management Responsibility is on this.
Page 30, mostly about Penguin, but then the FT.digital subscriptions up 31% in first half of year to more than 300,000. But no clarity on how many of these are outside the UK. "Across print and online, the FT said its total paid circulation stood at 599,000 up 2% on the year." Some Googling finds Press Gazette for May. FT uk nespaper sales 300,584 ; -17.12% So UK print and global digital could be both about 300,000. One growing more than 20% , one declining more than 10%. The Guardian shows numbers for the Guardian combining digital and print that make not a lot of sense without detail.
Earlier today I posted about Google TV and a topic on the LinkedIn page for Cross Media Live.
This afternoon I checked out the Sony Centre on Exeter High Street and the box has definitely arrived. This is not a rumor from the Consumer Electronics Show. This is actual observation. It seems to be working ok and is designed to fit any TV, not just a Sony. The box uses Google software with Flash and the apps come from Google Play. So Google should try to keep them up to date. I guess YouTube will be well supported. I liked the keyboard on the back of the remote.
Also in Exeter there are Samsung smart TVs at Richer Sounds and specialists for Panasonic and Bang & Olufsen. Lots of other shops as well. Virgin Media have a shop that shows their YouTube app and web browsing. But this Sony kit is interesting as a more direct link to Google. Apple shop also has a box but now rarely displayed.
I definitely think that local media could be possible through a tag such as "EX1to4" or any other one depending on what local means.
I will check this later in Exeter High Street. If the report is true there could be a Sony device available.
Meanwhile
This video is probably a fake. There is a box from Apple that works with existing kit. But if there is a plan to release a tv anytime soon then the share price is not reflecting this.
But wait, there's more. What if there could be massive losses on the launch of Apple into a low margin market? They could sell 200 million units this year at a loss. And then there is the cost of buying ITV and rebranding as something else. The share price could reflect that there are plans for Apple TV but they are not expected to work out. We just don't know. This is probably the most sensible blog post about Apple this week.
On the LinkedIn group for Cross Media Live I have been commenting on the possibility that the Guardian will move to weekly publication or cease print publication. It has been pointed out that print machinery might not be viable for use once a week, but I don't think this will stop the trends.
Several publishers will be involved in the talks. Ahead of this I am looking on blogs etc to find out what they are doing. Reading the Guardian you just get a fairly short claim that they have the largest combined web and print quality audience in the UK. But which market are they in? Is it a global online market? What to think about UK print?
very interesting stuff based on definite event, B2B mag moves online. Chris Rand writes that "People love print magazines, but not enough to pay for them, especially when they're full of two-week-old news."
On Haymarket what I found was my own blog from a while ago, draft story for OhmyNews. Could Printweek move online? Why not?
In the most coveted awards of the digital publishing industry, Future was namedBest Digital Publisher – Consumer against stiff competition including Mirror Online, Hearst Magazines and Guardian News & Media. The judging panel said: “From its innovative approach to new launches, significant organic growth to reaching the tipping point where digital revenues offset those from print – Future is the deserving winner!”
The sunshine has started and it is time to relax. But ahead of Cross Media Live I will be looking for some info on what publishers are actually doing. And buying the Guardian on a Monday without expecting very much info about the Guardian itself.
This is a first attempt to outline a history of Adobe such that better sense can be made of the Cross Media Live event at the beginning of September. Previously I have speculated about future archaeologists finding two layers of mud, one with traces of Postscript and PDF, the other with mentions of Flash. But now things seem to have moved on again, though I don't understand how.
Recently I asked a question about PDF on the Cross Media Live LinkedIn page. My impression is that Adobe are no longer much interested in PDF. The release of Acrobat is delayed from Creative Suite when previously it might have been out before as some features were required and they had to be established. In reply I have been toild there will be a release in October and there has been no comment that this is not so.
Adobe will sponsor some of the talks. I don't know if there will be a stand. They appear not to have been at drupa, can't think of anything that was announced there.
I will try to put dates on this later but let's start with Adobe.PDF to include Postscript. This started when Xerox was not very interested and continues now but without much investment or promotion. Macromedia is not often mentioned but is the source of most of the web ideas. I think the cloud continues this. Call it Adobe (FLSH).
This clip explains marketing or whatever is happening now. Omniture bought in the last couple of years. Call it Adobe Analytics.
There is some connection from what Adobe thinks is happening with technology and what later happens with media. The timing is not often as expected. But I think they are concentrating on Adobe Analytics. If so it could be better explained. Postscripot and PDF are open standards. Is there an open source analytics which Adobe can add to?
And if PDF is not worth developing any further then the next stage would be for Acrobat prices to drop. Both Photoshop and Premiere have an Elements version with quite a lot of functionality. .
The news on criminal charges in the UK is so far different to what appeared possible a while ago that I have looked again for links to the story by Tina Brown.
Possibly I have just gone off into a belief that I am a presenter on a radio show when actually there is no audience except the friends in the studio.
Story so far. On Phonic FM Wild Show I have gradually discovered more about avoiding gaps of silence and get help on a complete show or half an hour sometimes so Chris can start a bit later. Last week and this the storyteller has a festival booking so I have taken over that as well. The theme is the new Joss Stone Soul Sessions CD. We have been playing tracks from YouTube including the originals where they could be found.
Main conclusion so far is that for dance music the Teardrops is going back in time so One Love In My Lifetime is possibly stronger except that Diana Ross still has the best version, especially in a remix by BabyBollox. So this could be a small hit till Warner UK sort something out, if they do.
I thought this was the sort of thing radio shows are supposed to do. But so far there is no interest at all. No retweets, nobody else using #diana1love . Maybe Diana Ross has been forgotten except in Devon UK. I shall ask in the studio again this Thursday.
I had thought that #diana1love would be about persuading Motown to do some promotion. But maybe there is no Motown, just various distribution deals for stuff the audience has to discover. Maybe there just needs to be more intereswt in the remix on YouTube. I don't even know if Motown paid for this.
So this tweet / blogpost is just about me. Obviously I am listening to Joss Stone, and also Diana Ross.
( Next week Al Green, Isaac Hayes to be continured )
I think I will retweet myself from the weekend. Maybe there is a Motown, but mostly weekdays 9 -5 .
I did some video at the Sorry Head on Friday. The new Pyrates are amazing. Now based in Eindhoven with a full drum kit. Mostly Captain Gallows is doing the same songs. The CD is not really indicative of the live performance. They can tend towards a guitar band depending on the audience. Apparently they have supported some metal bands and survived ok.
I did the first set on the Pyrates own camera but I'm not sure what happened to it. I met someone who claimed they would record the second set but then I'm not sure I saw him again. So I hope the Pyrates have the camera now.
These stills and the second set on Kodak Zi8. Lighting adjusted but to do similar for video will take time.
I expect there is a lot of other video and live sound recording in various places. So link info welcome. I am thinking about a movie called Next Year in Eindhoven. This is about a band faking documentary evidence that they were in Sidmouth the previous summer. This movie is called Last Year in Sidmouth. Fortunately the Sorry Head is very similar to the basement of the George Hotel on the Sidmouth Esplanade. So some of the editing will be quite easy.
upper bit is for txt on social media , in a triangle of quality, learning, communication. design science now added as mentioned by John Burgoyne ( #mtw3) and Diana Laurillard see recent book
Bottom triangle about learning. There will be an August event re right livelihood, more on this later.
