A study was recently completed by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute into the smallest number of people that through exerting influence in a network, can bring about change. Apparently the number is slightly less than 10% – provided that the core base is highly committed and not prepared to change themselves. This has quite significant implications [...]
Next week is the start of the spring semester at university and I am back at the Arts Faculty of the University Of Wollongong for a reprise teaching the Digital Communications course I initiated last year and one other course. DIGC302 is a course that I have developed that last year was a huge amount [...]
Amazing, isn’t it? Everyone wants to get rich quick. The reality is that most people who get rich do it slowly. If you get lucky along the line and make a kazillion fast, that is a great outcome for you. But the reality is that to do so, you probably were going to do it [...]
In the last week a major report has been released in the UK on the state of IP and economic growth. This is really quite significant because what it serves to do is to look at the issues of copyright and patenting not from the subjective point of view of corporations in the content industry, [...]
The movement to mobile is incredible, isn’t it? I have been reading up on data relating to the growth of mobile over the last couple of days so that I can deliver a reasonably coherent lecture on a number of issues relating to mobile to first year communication students at UoW. At the same time [...]
So someone calls you up and says that they want to buy your company. You take a deep breath and then say, let’s talk… There are a lot of wrinkles in selling your business. The main one is that most people are so unused to the concept that they stumble at the first fence…. Imagine [...]
Niall Ferguson, the Scottish economic historian, often talks about people who see economies as balanced ecosystems ignoring the fact that these ecosystems are always teetering on the edge of chaos. The thing that takes the system out of balance and into chaos is often something that has been ignored or discounted as impossible – like [...]
I came across an interview with Michael Chugg earlier today, via a posting in Facebook. (Amazing that Facebook now appears to spread news in the long tail better than any other technology). He was talking about the lack of support for new and emerging musicians by commercial radio in Australia. Obviously a comment of this [...]
There is a massive paradox in how digital technology changes media. It is not just the business models that are under threat – too much ink is wasted on that proposition. What is less discussed is the impact that “digital” has on the consumers. Sure it makes a lot of things free or near free. [...]
This has to go down as one of the most amazing elections in Australian history. In it neither of the alternative Prime Ministers have said anything remotely bold – until today. Julia Gillard said that she would stop following the script and be herself. Does that mean that she might say something exciting or memorable? [...]