Dec. 26, 2008
Is there a fundamental shift going on? The information age may finally be showing its true power. It allows place shifting, time shifting, and instantaneous communications, alerts, and data, that are having powerful effects on our traditional economic forces that we have only begun to understand. I found the following quote tremendously frightening and exciting at the same time.
Bits Of Destruction
This downturn will be marked in history as the time where many of the business models built in the industrial era finally collapsed as a result of being undermined by the information age. Its creative destruction at work. It’s painful and many jobs will be lost permanently. But let’s also remember that its inevitable and we can’t fight it. Technology and information forces are unstoppable and they will reshape the world as we know it regardless of whether or not we want them to.
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Nov. 5, 2008
I’ve had this notion for a while, I don’t know if anyone has perfected it yet, some companies have gotten close. I want to be able to create an Indesign template, upload it into a web based system that will allow me to edit predefined areas through a web browser, put it into an approval queue, once it is approve it automatically resizes itself a bit into one of 14 predefined sizes and then is transferred automagically to the publications as defined in the media buying system.
This should be done already. Websites have been doing it for years in the form of database driven websites. Now that the Indesign file format is basically just XML it really isn’t a very large leap to do a few integrations between exisitng technologies and have a whole new product that any company that does regional or nation newspaper advertising, or magazine advertising would love to utilize.
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Oct. 27, 2008
The advertising challenge of today is how does a marketer cut through all of the media clutter and noise to get to your targeted demo, where are they? They could be hanging out with Oprah at oprah.com, watching and uploading videos at Youtube, shooting net friends in an online game, or they could be living, breathing, collaborating, creating the next generation of media through mash-ups and remixing, or creating and categorizing their own content by blogging and tagging.
Its interesting now that the promises made in the 90’s are finally coming to pass. With service based architectures the dream of publishing once, view anywhere, is quickly coming to fruition. As the new standards shake out you have to be there, on the forefront, innovating. It is time for you to learn about the power of the semantic web and its impact on media type specific content creation and delivery.
How will marketers and advertisers get close to a clients customers? By living with them online, getting close to them, offer them ways to alter content, ways to interact with the messaging, create their own messaging, be the brand champions to influence others. This was the promise we were dreaming about in the 90s. It is here.
Look for posts coming up soon on:
- Communities and the social web.
- Folksonomies and tagging.
- The democratization of news.
- Remixing and mash-ups
- The digitization of everything.
