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Articles tagged ‘media’

• A less virtual world

  2009-11-19 12:52:49 // Kris Herbert // Idealog #24: now
  Online maps are low-res, low-impact and usually low-rent. But a Christchurch company has mapped the city in high-res—including some local interiors.

• A vicious act of malice at O’Hare

  2009-07-14 12:06:15 // Matt Cooney // The Idealog Blog
  Jetstar should be grateful its aggrieved passengers aren't also country musos—unlike Dave Carroll, who is more than a tad annoyed at the way baggage handlers in Chicago handle guitars. The result: 2.5 million views on YouTube—and nearly 14,000 comments—in just a week.

• Ace of Base

  2009-04-30 10:29:01 // Lauren Bartlett // Idealog #20: now
  Jasmin Ziedan thought her employer should do things differently—so she bought the company

• Adrian Holovaty on the mashup

  2009-02-20 11:08:03 // Matt Cooney // Idealog TV
  Adrian Holovaty is reinventing online journalism, where the data tells the tale and statistics never lie

• Adrian Holovaty: a mashup case study, Everyblock.com

  2009-02-19 15:04:57 // Ben Kepes // The Idealog Blog
  Adrian is a journalist (ahhh—that’s a good thing—a dying breed) and a developer of web apps for washingtonpost.com, lawrence.com and LJWorld.com. If that wasn’t enough he also co-created Django, the open-source development framework.

• Brassy muck

  2009-09-24 11:33:34 // David MacGregor // Idealog #23: workshop
  The campaigns that no-one wanted point the way to tomorrow’s social marketing.

• Browser emptor

  2008-11-18 08:07:10 // Jason Smith // Idealog #18: workshop
  The ad is an established art, but now it has a new venue

• Change agent

  2010-07-08 11:29:26 // Matt Cooney // Idealog #28: now
  You know the television scene is getting weird when TVNZ launches a new channel on Sky’s pay platform. But Eric Kearley, the broadcaster’s new head of digital, reckons it heralds a new age of co-operation in New Zealand media. Others say TVNZ is already irrelevant. So is Kearley just rearranging the deckchairs?

• Data hound

  2009-12-04 12:44:07 // Julie Starr // Idealog #24: features
  In a Wellington corridor, Nat Torkington laid down a challenge—and sparked a small revolution. Julie Starr reveals how a loose collection of determined Kiwi innovators are using public data to change the ways that politicians, public servants, companies and people communicate. But is the country ready? Plus streetwise and now open.

• Free thinking

  2009-10-02 11:23:14 // Matt Cooney // Idealog #23: features
  We pay for the Herald, but not for its website; we’ll give money to Sky while we let the state-owned TVNZ struggle. As business thinkers proclaim the age of the free and Rupert Murdoch heads a fightback, Matt Cooney asks if we really know the value of a dollar. Plus keep on giving.

• Global curiosity

  2009-09-14 12:05:57 // Deirdre Robert // Idealog #23: workshop
  Rhythm, noise and the disco.

• Hail the Twitterer-in-Chief

  2009-04-06 11:35:14 // David MacGregor // Idealog #20: workshop
  Learning from the methods that unlocked the White House

• How to be a Media Darling

  2009-08-08 16:24:30 // Ben Kepes // The Idealog Blog
  Doug Casement from Renaissance tells about building relationships and pitching for coverage with mainstream media

• In deep water

  2009-11-13 09:32:40 // Florence Noble // Idealog #24: features
  When Jaquie Brown frets on television about the shape of her head, she has Gerard Johnstone to thank. The writer, director and editor of The Jaquie Brown Diaries spends much of his time plotting his star’s most uncomfortable adventures—and the rest getting them to air. Florence Noble—part of the new series cast—tracks his journey from stunt school drop-out to creating our funniest sitcom.

• Jasmina Tesanovic: the design of crime

  2009-02-20 12:26:40 // Ben Kepes // The Idealog Blog
  Feminist, political activist, translator, publisher and filmmaker Tesanovic is a creation of the 1999 Kosovo war. She wrote a war diary based on the war Diary of a Political Idiot.

• Juliette Powell at X|Media|Lab

  2009-05-23 15:05:06 // Lauren Bartlett // Idealog TV
  Shape your brand one tweet at a time, says social media expert Juliette Powell. You can kiss us if you want, Juliette.

• Manufacturing Dissent - Media Activism

  2009-06-20 14:01:37 // Jason Kemp // The Idealog Blog
  Until very recently the trade-off between richness and reach with media and communications tools on the internet has seen mixed results but we are very close to some exciting breakthroughs. This means news is old when it gets through the media process as savvy consumers have already engaged to some extent in a myriad of ways (mostly online) and this alters the secondary ripples and impacts as well.

• Meg Pickard: content, communities and collaboration

  2009-02-19 12:24:06 // Ben Kepes // The Idealog Blog
  Meg Pickard is the head of communities and user experience for guardian.co.uk. She points out that users interact with content in many different ways. Consume, React, Curate, Create

• Megan Elliott of X|Media|Lab

  2009-05-23 14:53:56 // Vincent Heeringa // Idealog TV
  Megan Elliott explains the what, why and who of X|Media|Lab.

• Mind the bollocks

  2009-09-25 08:57:33 // Mike Booker // Idealog #23: celsias
  Johnny Rotten once mocked the Queen; today he saves his sneer for New Zealand butter. Our key export markets are increasingly in the grip of environmental and social activism, led by a virtuous circle of consumers and supermarkets. Some Kiwi exporters are on to this rapidly growing and mutating phenomenon. Others, Mike Booker discovers, haven’t a clue.

• Off the wall

  2009-08-21 11:00:05 // Felicity Monk // Idealog #22: features
  Ben King and Adam Bryce are on a mission to democratise art. With a beer budget and a billionaire’s contact book, they dream of kick-starting a new street culture scene in Auckland. Felicity Monk meets the founders of Plaything Gallery. Plus bring the noise

• Oh so ASCII

  2009-07-17 16:29:42 // Matt Cooney // The Idealog Blog
  You can do a lot with plain text. SJD proves the point.

• Parmesh Shahani at X|Media|Lab

  2009-05-22 17:52:24 // Lauren Bartlett // Idealog TV
  Lauren Bartlett meets a key VC to find out why Kiwi companies should be heading to the subcontinent.

• Russell Brown: who’s doin’ it right?

  2009-02-20 09:41:02 // Ben Kepes // The Idealog Blog
  Russell Brown is a blogger, a journalist and (according to traditional media) an ‘internet specialist’. So what are the trend that are at the forefront of publishing at the moment?

• Selling trust

  2008-10-30 10:55:34 // David MacGregor // Idealog #18: workshop
  Everyone is spinning you a line—but truth can be found in unlikely places

• Showcase #3: roping the big one

  2009-11-03 15:45:16 // Idealog #24: plus
  Lassoo moves at whip-like speed to deliver cracking integrated campaigns

• Showcase #4: change the only constant

  2009-11-03 15:45:04 // Idealog #24: plus
  For Q, every creative strategy is driven by the concept of change.

• SP09 - Carsen-o-matic for the people

  2009-08-16 17:23:44 // David MacGregor // The Idealog Blog
  Legendary designer David Carson engages with spontaneity, wit and insight at Semi-Permanent. Well … wit and insight …

• SP09: A message from All of Us

  2009-08-16 20:22:26 // David MacGregor // The Idealog Blog
  Sanky, founder of AllOfUs an innovative interactive design firm in London, explains how a 10-year-old can get inside Einstein's head.

• That’s entertainment

  2009-05-29 12:00:46 // David MacGregor // Idealog #21: workshop
  What comes after the clients and the chocolate biscuits? Hollywood provides a clue.

• The communal

  2009-02-20 10:46:02 // Matt Cooney // The Idealog Blog
  There's an authentic community building around Webstock. What better place to learn about creating others?

• The gods drink Guinness

  2009-11-05 15:28:43 // Matt Cooney // The Idealog Blog
  … according to Guinness’s ad agency, anyway

• The plunge

  2009-07-28 10:26:21 // Matt Cooney // The Idealog Blog
  Barry Colman invited a firestorm when he announced that the NBR would stop publishing all its content online for free, and instead would save some of its material for paid subscribers. A week later, how’s he doing?

• The Sesame Street pitch

  2009-09-28 08:15:00 // Su Yin Khoo // The Idealog Blog
  Here's the video that pitched Sesame Street to the networks in 1969. Great insight into how they researched for and developed the show.

• The wild bunch

  2009-11-27 09:36:46 // Amanda Cropp // Idealog #24: features
  Reality TV is old-school: Natural History New Zealand has been doing it for decades, bringing the weird, wild and wonderful into our living rooms. They’ve learned what viewers like, how to build happy relationships with US media monoliths and proved there’s more to New Zealand than birds. Amanda Cropp meets NHNZ’s wild things. Plus upping the wow factor and an outsider’s view.

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