Category Archives: New Media

Emerging, New Media, New Paradigms

Our Exponential Evolution

The Portable Consultant has had an exceptional day.

First there were two fascinating interviews by Kevin Rose in his Foundation video podcasts – Tim Ferris and Chad Hurley (who reminisced about the start of PayPal and YouTube).

Then there were two TED presentations that, taken together, linked rapid technical change with evolution and provided one example of the wonderful innovations that are possible in our time.

The first talk was Danny Hillis’ Back to the future (of 1994) recorded 19 years ago and the second was Shilo Shiv Suleman’s Using tech to enable dreaming. Having heard Hillis link technilogical change to evolution, Suleman’s demonstration of the evolution of the “storybook” took on greater meaning. Indeed, I could see how life might evolve through technology. It seemed that homo sapiens might be the classic book that will give birth to whatever being that iPad-enabled animated storybook represents. A wholly new thing with “magical” abilities.

Cheers!
-pmh

Grumbles, New Media

BBC on ‘The Press Under Pressure’

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The Portable Consultant caught the BBC’s Peter Day podcasts on The Press Under Pressure, a two part series on newspapers versus new media and journalism in the era of blogs.

Knowing the BBC, the following link is likely to disappear after about 7 days. Why? Because BBC policy is to remove podcasts for (some?) shows after a week. Why? Nobody knows… not the fellow who responded on behalf of the BBC to my question and not the thousands of listeners, many of whom pay for the BBC as a public service.

Anyway if these podcasts interest you, get them now!

Peter Day’s World of Business page

Press Under Pressure, part 1

Press Under Pressure, part 2

Sigh,
-pmh

ps: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to share these legally downloaded podcasts with those who were unfortunate enough to have missed the publication window. These podcasts will self-destruct in 7 days.