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Ben’s Eye – 18/9

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Hello one and all,

‘Tis been a week when the PM finally mentioned the c-word (cuts) and the king of social media marketing has faced more problems with his health care plans.  But let’s not worry about that, here’s some media(ish) news.

Shock horror, web company makes money

No it’s not Twitter (that’s waaaay off) but Facebook (remember them?) who this week reached 300m users and is making money.  Seems there is money in the internet after all.

http://is.gd/3pn1Z

Look out for Fosters in the Rovers Return

as age old regulations on product placement are set to be relaxed.  Cue stampede to have your drink on the judge’s table during X-Factor

http://is.gd/3pnhg

Serendipity and the internet

Too much choice or too targeted?  Is the internet simply accumulating all the stuff it knows we will like through rss feeds et al leaving no room for chance discoveries?  Interesting post here

http://is.gd/3poCy

Google continues to conquer the world

You think it’s big here?  We’ve got nothing on Brazil and India where Google and their sites account for 30% of total time spent on the internet – scary stuff

http://is.gd/3po9A

And finally

RIP Patrick

http://is.gd/3pptC

Have a great weekend

Cheers,

Ben

Ben’s Eye – 4/9

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Hello one and all,

‘Tis been a week of continuing dodgy reasons for letting prisoners free and 70 years since WW2.  Aside from all that though there’s been some media happenings…

Debt falls for the first time since records began (well 1993)

Which is pretty interesting if you think about if for a mo.  Does this represent a sea-change in how we think about saving / spending?

http://bit.ly/ROzDM

Are we getting all our news from mates?

Or more concisely mates who are on Twitter.  But is it only really saying that people use Twitter to keep them informed of other social media stories from social media interested people? (apologies you may have to register with the FT to read this)

http://bit.ly/kccJW

Are we really living in extraordinary times?

The banks started collapsing around us almost a year ago now.  But what’s really changed and how extraordinary was it?  Interesting piece from Mr. Davies

http://bit.ly/1032ID

Too many screens

Think about this the next time you book some digital screens

http://bit.ly/tchBQ

And finally

The ‘most interesting man in the world’ continues to amuse’

http://bit.ly/FUwgt

Have a great weekend one and all

Ta,

Ben

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Ben’s Eye – 21/8

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Hello one and all,

‘Tis been a week of questionable compassion and questionable compassion.  But enough of wider political themes, here’s some media news…

The death of journalism?

Not quite but the closure of the London Paper does throw up a couple of interesting questions.  Firstly if Murdoch’s throwing in the towel what does this mean for everyone else?  And what does Chris Anderson think? (he of ‘free’ fame)

http://bit.ly/20su3U

Don’t walk away from the conversation

Interesting little post here.  If we’re all about conversations with people, should we be planning continuously rather than on a campaign basis?

http://bit.ly/ouzJk

iPhone apps to change the democratic process?

Well perhaps not, but this is an interesting development

http://bit.ly/2z9i56

Paywall debate rumbles on

You’ve got to wonder whether Murdoch’s got this one right as well.  Interesting viewpoint here

http://bit.ly/18f6gK

And finally

Great data visualisation of the 100m record over the past 40 years or so

http://bit.ly/47VNeV

Have a great weekend one and all

Cheers,

Ben

Ben’s Eye – 31/7

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Hello one and all,

‘Tis been a week of mistakenly trying to get money back from wounded soldiers and the sad news of Mr. Robson’s death.  But enough of that, here’s some news of a slight media persuasion.

Sometimes you can’t make it on your own

Especially if you’re trying to take on the company that ‘does no evil’ (except when it harms the bottom line).  Meaning Yahoo and Microsoft are buddying up to take a bigger slice of the search pie.

http://tr.im/uToo

Time spent online starting to level off

Is this because faster connection speeds are enabling us to complete tasks more efficiently, or have we reached saturation point?

http://tr.im/uTp8

The candle problem

and having the confidence to fail.  Apparently the possibility of financial reward for solving a problem can actually hinder your ability to solve said problem.  Interesting when you think about it in relation to the banking crisis, bonus culture etc etc.  and perhaps we should all embrace failure a little bit more…

http://tr.im/uTqI

Twitter story of the week!

or should I stay stories.  Philip Hughes got in trouble for tweeting news of being dropped before the official announcement (http://tr.im/uTrF) and surely sign that Twitter has reached critical mass is the news that Darren Bent has got in trouble with Tottenham for tweeting his frustration about his proposed move to Sunderland (http://tr.im/uTGR).  Will we increasingly be getting our celeb news from the celebs themselves?  Removing the need for some hack to write it up?

And finally…

if Twitter was a 100 people

http://tr.im/uTIP

ooooh Alice in Wonderland trailer

http://tr.im/uVj9

ooooh new Tron trailer

http://tr.im/uVjZ

Have a grand weekend.

Ta,

Ben

Ben’s Eye – 24/7

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Hello one and all,

‘Tis been a week of lunar gazing and debate about rich 15 year old interns.  But enough of all that.  Here’s  some media themed news, sort of.

Britain’s a closed shop

With only America (land of the ‘dream’ let’s not forget) having lower social mobility rates than us.  So whilst we worry about the validity of a 15 year old’s thoughts on media, we’re probably missing the wider point.  Read this.

http://tr.im/tPw6

Ignoring the old

Interesting little post on advertising’s obsession with youth – ignoring the fact that most ‘western’ populations are ageing.

http://tr.im/tPx9

Everyone uses social networks

The proof can be found in this report from Comscore

http://tr.im/tPy4

Dairy Milk goes Fairtrade

Which is all well and good until you consider the real business reasons behind the change – that the Fairtrade price is currently below the market trading price for cocoa

http://tr.im/tPzt

And finally

Check out this overly indulgent, creative love-in of an ad.

http://tr.im/tPA9

Nirvana vs Rick

http://tr.im/tPBD

Fish tanks are relaxing…

http://tr.im/tPCY

and as a special treat, check out the Alice in Wonderland trailer, looks fantastic!

http://tr.im/tR5h

Have a grand weekend!

Ta,

Ben