Twitter Lists + personal context = The future of search

In which I describe how Twitter Lists could supply us all with the power of context.
Twitter have just announced that you will be able to organise individual Twitterers into Twitter Lists.

This makes official the kind of organisation users have be doing with client applications such as TweetDeck – the kind of application anyone who [...]

The last link for digital media: DIY exhibition?

In which I suggest that making it easy for everyone to show movies and TV shows to various-sized audiences would revolutionise media.
In these days of democratic production and distribution through digital technology, it’s about time we had a look at the exhibition side of things.
In the UK there has been some support for indie [...]

Final Cut feature idea: Use sequences as multiclips

In which I suggest a feature for Apple’s Final Cut – a way to create and edit multiclips (clips that can be switched as live between different camera angles).
Here’s another idea for a future version of Final Cut. To make multiclips a lot more flexible, imagine being able to use any (single codec) sequence as [...]

Apple ProApps Store: More than just plugins

In which I suggest that Apple could use their expertise in creating an App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch to create a store for post-production professionals.
Now is the time to start guessing about the new features Apple might introduce in the ProApps that will make up Final Cut Studio 3. Most people are [...]

Cheers from London

An old idea from 2000. I don’t think Transport for London would give their approval, but maybe Absolut don’t need it.

Digital Village Halls?

In which I provide some feedback to the UK government on their Digital Britain report: a place to build and democratise access to the internet.
From ‘two birds with one stone’ part of my brain, I’ve come up with an idea for the government that will head off complaints that Post Offices are being closed all [...]

Social media advertising: Trust the copy writer

In which I use the social media element of a UK advertising campaign to demonstrate how clients and agencies will need to learn how to trust unsupervised copyrighters with their brands.
If you’re interested in the future of advertising, maybe you should follow Aleksandr Orlov on Twitter or Facebook.
To anyone who’s ever been in interminable edits [...]

Encode copyrights into the file format

15 years ago I wrote an essay called “What if Media was Media?” It was based around an idea that might interest others, but I wasn’t sure what to do about it. As I wasn’t on the internet back then, all I could do was print it out and give it to a few people [...]

Control for all

For the last thirty years people have been trying to come up with clever ways to make TV interactive. In the early 80s, we had Teletext services. We later had phone votes. These days digital TV users know that they can get more content – such as games, documentaries and commentary tracks – by ‘pressing [...]

How to beat Google

You beat Google by coming up with a method for organising the world’s information that is better than the way Google does it.
They find things for you by using an equation to guess whether a specific page is a good source of information on a subject. They look at the words on the page, the [...]