More and more data are surfacing to suggest that while we aren’t seeing the sort of explosion of niche media consumption at the scale expected in Anderson’s Long Tail, we are seeing a lessening of the power curve in a comparison between “old” and “new” media experiences. The reasoning seems to fit with what people [...]

I was recently asked by  M Roberston: Don’t you think the PC to cloud transition is the type of radical change we witness rarely? Honestly, I waffle on this one (go figure).  The cloudy movement seems like something both seemingly radical yet actually inevitable in that some dimensions of the transition are new, and other [...]

Let’s be honest right from the start.  The iPad is perhaps the most poorly named, awfully positioned, not-seemingly-revolutionary product that Mr Jobs has recently described as revolutionary while standing on stage. As a product meant to appeal to the Apple fanboy, the iPad appears to be a tremendous dud.  It does not have what the [...]

Susan Boyle’s most recent record has topped the charts in the UK and the US for 2009.  While this feat may seem like a big victory for the web over the radio, within these data lie a tough story that needs to be considered. Using the back of a napkin, you can easily arrive at [...]