Or “how do you sell more films by giving away 50% of them?” Give away the first half charge them for the second. By allowing customers to download films easily (might I suggest a shared distribution network here) and watch the first half for free, then prompting them to pay to watch the 2nd half, […]
Author Archives: Jay Cousins
Why The Idea Diary?
I recently got a new moleskin (sadly not personalised) and started using it. A lot. I’m getting practically evangelical about sharing right now, and also that ideas should not be “property”. More rants on this to follow on my other blog. I can’t call it Jay’s ideas blog or my ideas blog as the ideas […]
Key Factors in the Future of Social Networking
Some of the issues addressed are being addressed, some are original – I hope. Data Ownership – Data ownership should remain and always remain the property of the individual. Issues of data ownership need to be addressed strongly going forward, no company has the right to own my data. I may grant them permission to […]
Who’s story is it anyway?
The problems with Wikipedia as outlined in the article attached http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1190, highlight one of the greatest problems we face in age of ubiquitous information. It is the question of “Who’s story is it?” However this has always been a problem, it is just that in the present age as we all gain the power to […]
Improving the knowledge stream
As the world changes, and all our knowledge goes online, with insurmountable intellect and nonsense available to all in equal measure, the way we interact with this knowledge must change if we are to derive the maximum benefit from it. New roles and behaviors must emerge to enable us to adapt to this evolving resource […]
Improvements to texting
http://digg.com/comedy/What_Life_Would_Be_Like_Without_Text_Swearing Armstrong and Miller surmise it beautifully in the above link, but why hasn’t someone made a swear bundle download for intuitive texting. While your at it why not add science and techy intuitive bundles and intuition that suits my language, not the language that your programmers choose to make me adhere to. Let technology […]
What’s happening Sheffield?
Sheffield has a diverse array of cliques and tribes, events and scenes. It’s all very well to have these hidden little groups, but it limits what the community as a whole is capable of. So here’s a hack to start putting some kind of activity map together. This is about what your doing that’s interesting […]
Power Tools – Tools that shape the world
Everything is a tool of everything else. We are the tools of Wheat and Grass – http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/214, yet they are also the tools of us. The same applys to religion, our bodies, our minds, rocks, everything. Everything uses everything else. Everything is a tool, be it physical and tangible or virtual, notional and ideological. Power […]
Education 2.0 – Forget the 3 Rs, give them many Qs
When are schools and governments going to savvy up to the fact that the 3 Rs alone just don’t cut it any more. Structured thinking and learning by rote, are flawed thinking patterns that will only serve to restrict our social futures (or kids as they’re also known). What’s important is that kids learn to […]
The Rise of the Social Aggregators
I’m writing this through Flock, which so far is impressing me with the passiveness of uploading. ie. I log onto a social site it remembers me and puts it on the tool bar. However there are now so many social sites out there the gravity and relevance of social aggregators will be determined by how […]
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