June 17, 2006

nobody really knows where the whole thing is going to end up

4 Comments

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Tho­mas of English Cut [Savile Row tai­lors etc] was recently inter­vie­wed by BBC Radio 4’s “In Busi­ness”, where they talk about “Web 2.0″. Jeff Jar­vis is also inter­vie­wed, as well as the Direc­tor Gene­ral of the BBC, and some big­wig over at The Guar­dian.
You can lis­ten to it on their web­site for the next week or so, or you can down­load the pod­cast here. Tho­mas makes his appea­rance towards the end, about 22 minu­tes into it.
It was actually a really inte­res­ting show. I think the key point I took away is that the media busi­ness is currently in a period of great tran­si­tion i.e. nobody really knows where the whole thing is going to end up. This inc­lues big media com­pa­nies AND “blog­ging gurus” alike.
Tom made a really inte­res­ting point: That by having blog, it attrac­ted a com­ple­tely dif­fe­rent type of cus­to­mer than the kind he had before English Cut came along. Totally chan­ged the lands­cape fore­ver etc.
[Bonus Link:] A video clip taken from my local village pub, with my friend, Robert Scoble’s face appea­ring on the BBC eve­ning news.

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4 Responses to “nobody really knows where the whole thing is going to end up”

  1. James Thomson says:
    June 18, 2006 at 11:10 AM

    Lis­te­ned to the bbc pod­cast hugh lin­ked to; English Cut’s Tho­mas was great. He makes THE point — “Peo­ple want to know the pro­per story behind things; full stop.” and so in his blog he pro­vi­des just that — as he says “here is the truth behind it” — not revo­lu­tio­nary roc­ket science, just a res­pect­ful way to speak to peo­ple and not use any mar­ke­ting spin.
    I must also men­tion a great piece about the Slow Food move­ment which also chi­mes for peo­ple follo­wing the co-creation phi­losphy. The foun­der re-brands con­su­mers “co-producers” — it’s great. See you all at the Terra Madre event in Turin in Octo­ber!
    http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/food_and_drink/features/article1089685.ece
    James

  2. Gordon says:
    June 18, 2006 at 12:59 PM

    The “In Busi­ness” pod­cast is great! Defi­ni­tely one of the best IMHO. Once I get my spea­kers back wor­king (they keep cut­ting out after about 10 minu­tes of use out on my IBM note­book), I’ll lis­ten to this one!

  3. Paul Fabretti says:
    June 19, 2006 at 11:58 AM

    Yay — Scoble’s gone Glo­bal!!
    So what’s the deal with smo­king in a public place then?!!

  4. Adrian McEwen says:
    June 19, 2006 at 12:32 PM

    Thanks for the poin­ter, that was an inte­res­ting pro­gramme.
    In case you want to point peo­ple just at the bit fea­tu­ring Tho­mas, I’ve used my McQN.net Real Audio Clip Gene­ra­tor to create a clip poin­ting to just that sec­tion — http://www.mcqn.net/projects/RealClipGenerator/8P6Gsq.ram It’ll be valid until the BBC replace the audio stream with this week’s programme.