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It all depends how you look and read things.

This is a great piece of video that truly does make you think about not only what we see and think about but how we contextualize things.
Content is important BUT context is also very important.
Do you really listen?
When you are listening do you get the point?
Or do you hear what you want to hear?
There are [...]

You know you are doing something right.

How often do you look in the mirror after you have done a days work and ask, “is it getting through?”
I suspect all too often we miss the signs that what we are doing is having an impact.
Today I was working with a class on an end of term project and gave the all clear [...]

Content is king!

Last night on Nightline I had a great conversation about content syndication!
I am not talking RSS but how you can get content that is market ready into the market!
Imagine that academic paper that can be reformatted and become a valuable business piece.
How does this effect you? Are you a person who writes? Do you have [...]

Bring on the mobile media!

I have been doing some experimentation with mobile media and breaking my own rules!
The main rule I live by with mobile media is keep it short!
I have been recording my classes at the university and formatting them for an iPhone! The lectures are about 60 minutes and they actually seem to have a small audience.
If [...]

du CEO Osman Sultan where are we going?

Yesterday I had the pleasure of listening to Mr. Osman Sultan, the ceo of du int he UAE, talk about his vision of how a content delivery provider can and will play a role in the future of Arab media.
The real issues comes down to what is media today and what will media be tomorrow?
Content [...]

The what have you published mentality

Today I was talking to a group of academics about convergent media.
What I learned, to my surprise, is that even though I practice convergent media, see my nightline site, this does not count because I have not invested the painful time to write about it for some redundant academic journal.
I have even taught and continue [...]

Media, Culture and Economics my return.

Last night I had the pleasure of speaking to Mr. Michael-Ryan Fletchall of Experience Media Studios in Abu Dhabi.
We spoke about the 1st United Arab emirates based action film called Abdulla Omar and the Lost City of Sand. (the link to the audio is below)
Why this conversation was very interesting to me was becasue it [...]

Ownership = Success

The question on every teachers mind has to be how do I package what I teach to get students engaged?
Good question and one that seldom, if ever, gets acted upon!
Once children leave primary school less and less attention is given to the engagement of the student and more and more is attention is given to [...]

Media Empowerment or Media Scare?

The United Arab Emirates is set to have a new media law.
The Federal National Council has given the legal package two thumbs up, it is now going to cabinet.
But is the new law a step forward? Not all of those to be impacted by the legislation are impressed.
The director-general of the National Media Council of [...]

Rapid Prototyping in education?

No doubt you have heard someone say the two words, rapid prototyping.
Typically the idea of rapid prototyping applies to physical objects, a bike, a broom, that thing that is going to make your life easier.
And you can actually get training is rapid prototyping!
But what about applying the ideas and methodology of rapid prototyping to the [...]

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