Simon @ December 1, 2008 # 7 Comments
I was asked recently to speak at the Campaign/ APG Battle of Big Thinking. A few publisher types such as myself were tagged on at the end of a day of agency planners pontifications on life, the universe and everything (there was a lot of quantum physics, for some reason). Anyway, this was my contribution. [...]
Simon @ July 21, 2008 # 2 Comments
Rather like an intrepid local reporter who cares about nothing unless it involves something on his patch, I always start my look at the Google quarterlies by looking at the UK revenues. While most of the industry has been talking about slowdown in growth -the figure that’s been in my mind is their record breaking [...]
Simon @ April 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Almost incredible interactive chart over at MediaGuardian.
Simon @ April 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m just in the middle of Ofcom’s review of public sector broadcasting. 150 pages of analytical loveliness to fill up my lunch hour. More on this, possibly later. Anyway, as is often the case with Ofcom docs there’s some lovely research nuggets tucked away and this chart caught my eye - asking 16-24 year olds [...]
Simon @ April 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Image via WikipediaFast, reliable, ubiquitous mobile connections are the missing bit of the current digital jigsaw. Even with 3G the mobile web still has more than a little feel of the old 56.6K modem about it.
With fast connections in place, innovation tends to fly - and we can only just start to think what we [...]