The future of media?
February 29th, 2008
Blogger extraordinaire Robert Scoble came to interview me the other day for his new gig, Fast Company TV. When he posts those videos, I’ll point to them.
What was particularly interesting, however, was that before the “real” interview started, Robert pulled out his Nokia N95 phone and shot a quick, rough-and-ready interview… which streamed live on to the Internet through his Qik account. As Robert spoke to me, he could see people sending questions live which he was able to integrate into our talk.
There is a more than a hint of the future of some media in that experience. Have a look:
April 4th, 2008 at 8:40 am
I was able to see John speak at University of San Francisco this month. I was enlightened to hear the interesting things he has done. I asked a question about using open source as a strategy to speed-up the innovation process. I felt he gave a fair answer, I had a sense it is something that opened up more possibilities. I hope he can further investigate open source strategies as method of innovation. For example, until women were involved in designing feminine products these products were not necessarily user friendly. Gaining innovation from the user is providing true customer needs. This eliminates waste.
He mentioned “best practices” for innovation. I found that to be confusing. Because of large enterprises with a vast amount of capital have slow down the innovation initiatives, the standards of certain bureaucracies do not have “stage gate” process to kill bad projects. NASA is a good example of slow decisions. The Pentagon and US Agriculture Department have similar problems in implementing integrative thinking into their solutions.