The latest updates from my Tumblr blogs
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The latest updates from my Future of Business Tumblr Blog
The latest updates from my Green Futurist Tumblr Blog
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January 12, 2012
September 19, 2011
MUST WATCH: PressPausePlay Movie, related 9-minute excerpt of interview with me (future of music ++)!
I am delighted to be involved with PressPausePlay, a movie about digital creativity, funded and promoted by Ericsson, featuring people such as Hank Shocklee, Seth Godin, ZeFrank, Sean Parker, Larry Lessig and Mike Mesnick. And it's finally out and available! Here is what it's all about:
"The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world's most influential creators of the digital era"
You can download it via bit-torrent (free but painful) or iTunes US (paid but much swifter:)
From the blog: "we have had so many people ask "Where can we see your film?" and this week we are very happy to say our digital distribution has begun! PressPausePlay is now available online in many countries around the world, with more coming soon. You can now find PressPausePlay on iTunes US, iTunes Canada and iTunes UK. You can also purchase PressPausePlay on Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Vudu.com, CinemaNow.com, Xbox, and Playstation. Or put us on your Netflix cue where we will be coming soon..."
Please RT and spread the word!!
August 20, 2011
July 28, 2011
Check out my Future of Business blog on Tumblr
I started using Tumblr a year ago, and because of its easy use of viral tools and instant-post options via Instapaper etc I have build a pretty good following there, already. I usually post interesting snippets I find via Twitter, Flipboard or my 1000+ RSS feeds (no, I don't actually read all of them), and only the most crucial ones are presented. In other words, this is not a river but a drip-feed:) Check it out at Futureof.biz , on any mobile devices try the new Conduit-powered mobile app.
April 05, 2011
Check out my new Tumblr blog: Futureof.biz
Tumblr really rocks and makes posting short stuff so much easier and more viral than Typepad. Take a look.
August 03, 2010
Seth Godin and Tom Peters on Blogging - a must watch!
Since I get so many clients asking me why in the world they should blog - here's the answer, in a nutshell (couldn't have said it better myself). This is also why I will start blogging a lot more, again, very soon. Stay tuned.
February 12, 2010
Google kills some music blog sites - another story from within the dysfunctional music industry
Good coverage of this latest twist in 'change to digital' confusion, via Paid Content, below: Google has killed several blogs - hosted by the Google-owned Blogger platform - that were allegedly infringing on copyright by posting MP3 files. A long-standing tradition of music journalism online is severely endangered. To me, this is yet another example of why we urgently need new legislation in digital music, i.e. the creation of realistic, web-native standards and reliable permissions. Because this is the problem: while the marketing people at the labels love these blogs because they clearly spread the word very efficiently and reach the perfect target groups, the legal people at the labels file DMCA claims and want the sites to remove all MP3 files.
But to me, it also looks like Google is now, increasingly being forced to police blogger-powered sites for unlicensed music postings because executives across many sectors of the traditional media industry are now pointing their fingers at Google for the use of content that is not based on a clear-cut license, i.e. exists in what I call a gray zone - some use of content that is legally uncertain (yes, based on pre-Internet laws, mostly) but has become accepted social-cultural practice. Check out the debate via the Twitter Hashtag. Image: Gorilla vs Bear music blog.
"In what critics are calling “musicblogocide 2010,” Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has deleted at least six popular music blogs that it claims violated copyright law. These sites, hosted by Google’s Blogger and Blogspot services, received notices only after their sites – and years of archives – were wiped from the internet..."
via paidcontent.org
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January 24, 2010
My presentation on "Content 2.0 - Monetization Examples" at MidemNet 2010
Below
is the PDF from the presentation I just did at Midem 2010
in Cannes / France (Sunday January 24, 2010, 5.30 pm). My MidemNet blog
posts are here, and my presentation "Compensation not Control"
from MIDEM 2009 is here. Please click through to the Slideshare
site to download the PDF if desired. The video is now available, here,
as well. Download: Content
2.0 Gerd Leonhard at MidemNet 2010 Public PDF 15MB
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October 11, 2009
Nice bottom line by Hugh Macleod: "Bleed and Feed” (Gaping Void)
Hugh MacLeod is one of my favorite cartoonists that covers geeky web and technology stuff, over at Gapingvoid.com. Below is a quote from his blog that makes a ton of sense to me, so I wanted to share it with you.
He says that as a working artist, he divides his day into two parts: “Bleed and Feed”.
"The Bleed Part. Taking care of business. Doing work for my clients. Working on new Cube Grenade ideas etc. Trying to find new clients etc. Trying to get my bills paid etc etc.
The Feed Part. I go and make drawings for myself. Completely non-commercial. Often no more than doodling in my sketchbook. Just me and a pen, trying to feed my well. Often accompanied by a nice glass of red.
I try to do both every day. “Bleed” gets my morning and afternoons. “Feed” happens mostly after dinner, before bedtime.
Yeah, I guess this is a variation on The Sex & Cash Theory. It’s all good.
All successful artists “Bleed and Feed”, in their own way. The ones who don’t– who just try to do one or the other– tend to burn out rather quickly. That’s just Reality"
via gapingvoid.com
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July 01, 2009
Kwout: a nice tool for sharing web content, and quoting
Lorraine at Rostant Advertising in Trinidad send me the link to an interesting Web 2.0 tool called Kwout. They provide tools that allow you to take a snapshot of any piece on any webpage - mostly for quoting purposes I would think -, make a widget out of it, and re-use the quote, intact will all links etc, on your own page - pretty cool, even though the image quality could be better. Talk about Sharism!
Below is a snippet from one of my favorite essays called 'Better than Free' by Kevin Kelly, and from a blog post by me that is based on the same concepts... check it out.
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June 12, 2009
This is how I blog now... Going Micro.
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“Apple looks towards digital media sharing during iPhone calls http://ow.ly/dKJS Yep, that's the holy grail. It's ALL about SHARING. Getit.”
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May 22, 2009
Audioboo - yet another way to Podcast and share thoughts - now via the iPhone
Audioboo is a pretty cool new app that allows you to record something on your iPhone and then upload it to your page on Audioboo.com, as well as syndicate it via widgets - as it says, it's an iPhone blogging app. Interesting? Check out my first 'Boo' below.
May 19, 2009
Sponsored Conversations - yes, no, maybe?
I have run across the sponsored conversations concept via Josh Bernoff and via Techdirt's Mike Masnick before (see Techdirt's sponsored conversation example here), and found it very interesting yet a little hard to align with a more 'seriously independent' blogging approach. I am not sure that I would personally want to engage in having my blog or my tweets sponsored by someone that wants to reach my readers or 'followers' (and yes... there have been offers), but I still like the concept and will investigate it further. It seems like there is a nice package to be made with good old Word of Mouth, web-native Word of Mouse, and Sponsored Conversation - or what do you think?
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April 13, 2009
Podcast of my Authors@Google speech in San Francisco: The End of Control and the Future of Content
MP3 file is here Details are here. Some snippets: Bottom Lines: The fight for Control was
a fight for Distribution. The flight for Attention is a fight for
Trust. The beneficiaries of Control were Monopolies. The beneficiaries
of Trust are those that Collaborate. Advertising 2.0:
Information becomes Conversation. Interruption becomes Engagement.
Annoyance becomes Entertainment. 'This is an Ad' becomes 'This is
Content'. The Sharing Economy Logic: Sharing...the
Output (i.e. publish, re-mix, co-create, life-stream...) the Input
(i.e. remuneration in cash, attention, reputation...) ... the Thruput
(i.e. usage data, meta content, attention trails >> New Data
Economics)
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March 24, 2009
All my short blog posts will now move to Twitter. If you get my blog feed be sure to subscribe to my Twitter RSS feed, too
Image by photopia / HiMY SYeD via Flickr
I used to blog short stuff all the time - usually a link to a great story or resource somewhere else, and maybe add a few comments. That was then, and this is now: this kind of activity has now almost completely moved to my Twitter account (main) (others: Futurefeed & DailyWisdoms), because it makes a lot more sense there. Blog posts will be a bit less but more substantial and more carefully crafted - as they should be, imho.
So, if you are already subscribing to this blog's RSS feed but have not been sucked into the Twitter universe quite yet - and don't really want to (yes, I know you people are still out there!) - please be sure to also subscribe to my Twitter RSS feed, as well as my Friendfeed RSS, that way you can be sure you keep getting all the goodies, regardless of what you use. Both of those RSS feeds can still be read even if you are not logged-in to either of them. Hope that helps?
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