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1000heads: Creativity + Curation
This past week saw the Exeter-based gathering that is known as the LikeMinds 2010 Autumn Conference.
Photo via the lovely Benjamin Ellis
If you’re a regular reader here at 1000heads you’ll know that LikeMinds has become one of our favourite things ever since our first attendance back in February of this year. I’m pleased to say that last week’s event – based around the themes of ‘Creativity + Curation’ – was no disappointment.
Unlike February’s event, where the one key takeaway (for me at least) was the audience-wide understanding of the importance of listening, this time around the lessons were much more broad; touching upon various different subjects, specialisms and industries including; Music, Film, Publishing (traditional and new) as well as other, more thought-provoking pieces along the lines of the impact of social technologies and the much-discussed ‘Big Society‘.
For me personally, the highlights came in varying forms. First, the opening Publishing ‘immersive’ session hosted by Andrew Davies of Idio was rammed to the rafters as everyone came together to discuss the impact of the social web upon the traditional publishing industry. For such a packed event, Andrew facilitated well as the rest of the group swiftly leapt from one area to another covering off not only the real value of brand/consumer relationships (throwing in some real world examples to boot) but also whether or not true curation is just filtering other people’s content.
LikeMinds resident live-blogger, Adam Tinworth, happened to be in the room also and his blow-by-blow recap is definitely worth a look.
Second, Chris Carey from the PRS, yes really – the PRS. Chris is an in-house economist for the music industry and he used the patterns that he is paid to spot day-in and day-out, to illustrate the pitfalls in any market of relying on what you think you know. His example of NBC’s mistake of turning off the Gossip Girl stream on their website was a lesson to us all.
And the third and final one (again, that spoke to me personally) was that of Benjamin Ellis. Who, with one phrase, captured the whole audience:
“A fish would be last to discover water”
— and to give that context, I’d spend some time looking over his rather awesome presentation –
Benjamin Ellis: Why the ‘We’ Generation ‘Knows’ Differenthttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=benjaminellis-101028035621-phpapp02&stripped_title=benjamin-ellis-why-the-we-generation-knows-different&userName=wearelikeminds
View more presentations from Like Minds.
We’ll be back with more LikeMinds analysis at some point later this week (or maybe next).
In the meantime, we’d love to hear from you on any of the above.. So why not leave us a comment! 🙂
So vlomo10 begins
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And that’s it…
For now at least.
I’ve just closed the book on my final moleskine back-story. I am up to date and everything from here on in (unless labelled otherwise) will be up to date and on the money. Turns out the timing was quite nice too…
The entries themselves run across two books and one year; spanning July 2009 to July 2010. In that time I’ve changed jobs (twice), travelled the world (once), moved house (in secret) and, overall, done a lot of growing up.
Here we are at the end of October and tomorrow, Video Blog Post Month starts again. Once again – I’m going to give it a fair crack and once again, my creative juices will be tested…
Last year I scored 28/30.
Let’s see how it goes this time ’round.
Life at 30
Moleskine entry: July 15th, 2010
It’s not too bad. Today’s date is July 15th 2010. In 20mins I’ll be in Canada which… is interesting. I was upgraded today. Seat 3G. That was nice.
Saying that, I am tired. But to be fair, that’s down to lack of sleep over and above anything else.
Son, Daughter – one day I hope you’ll read this. Read about ‘Dad’s Travels’. I bought my first map last week. Stickers a plenty all over it, yours too one day.
Where was I?
Yes, that’s it; Son, Daughter – take one piece of advice from your old man; Be Happy. There aren’t many things in life that are really, truly worth worrying about. Life & Death, certainly. But that’s it. Your life can be as happy as you want it to be. Good things happen to good people. It’s true! Now don’t mock the cliché, please. I mean it. My endless optimism has seen me all right so far. I hope and hope that, if anything, you get that from me.
Yours,
James
— who one day, will be your Dad, X
Sardines
Moleskine entry: June 22nd, 2010
Three months must be a new record and, although admittedly I’ve been less protective over this Molekskine this time ’round, it’s still quite impressive.
Perhaps there’s something in scouring back through and seeing what (if anything) has resulted in real world change. Perhaps. Words are real after all.
Incidentally. This tube is packed. My handwriting is suffering. It’s too early…
I want a Nokia N8
Moleskine entry: April 30th, 2010
But I guess you kind of saw that coming.
I work for 1000heads, who in turn work for Nokia, the question is obviously primed: am I being paid to say this? No. Certainly not. The recently announced messaging devices for instance, although they’ve arrived at an astonishing price point.. tey certainly didn’t float my boat terms of specs, looks or features. The N8 however does.. and I’l tell you why.
Whenever I get asked “What phone should I get?” my response – believe it or not – does not start with “Oh, the Nokia…” Instead my reply is usually something like “It depends”. Then I ask questions.
More often than not based around content creation vs consumption, plus some device history and of course the necessary operator-based queries and, I would like to think, of those that have taken my advice in the past, a fair few have ended up happy with their final choice.
If the roles were reversed and I found myself answering my own questions, there is no doubt that I would recommend the N8.
Why? Let’s see.
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“Question 1: What do you have right now?”
Right now James, I switch between the N900 + the Nexus One.
“Question 2: What do you use your phone for?”
Everything!
“Ahem, can you define ‘everything’?”
OK. Photos, videos, emails, web browsing, calendar, address book… Basically, if the feature exists on the handset, I use it. If it doesn’t exist, I download an app that does. But yes, I guess I said photos and videos first as I do indeed love creating.
“Question 3: What did you use to have? I mean, what is your handset history?”
Before the N900? The N86.
“How was that?”
Well, non-touchscreen, amazing camera, genuinely the last great phone of its kind.
“Question 4: iPhone?”
Never.
“Question 5: Android?”
Great for consumption. Great as a Twitter device, email etc.. Single sign on makes it a breeze to use but, the camera functionality lets it down MASSIVELY.
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So far, so not very surprising. Turns out I want the Nokia N8 for a whole bunch of reasons – so why is it really?
Because I love creating content on my phone. Why my phone in particular? I don’t know. It could be the wealth of meta data available, it could be the sense of geeky wonder I get whenever I upload anything in its final form… sometimes it’s just the damn good quality of the thing.
The N8 is new, shiny and – barring some shoddy, ne’er do well, prototype-based scrutiny a few weeks back – is actually quite exciting. The output from the handset is nothing short of outstanding and, having dragged my N86 around the world with me last year, upgrading to the next model is the next logical step.
I’ve not had any actual hands on time with it yet. So all of this might change. There’s one thing that simply cannot argue; Nokia make some great imaging devices.
The N8, by the looks of things, will be their next, great imaging device. So I’m getting one.
Are you?
The question is, who’s she talking to?
This has hit me twice on Google Reader this morning, shared from two different people quoting two different sources, both of which refer to the same video that’s embedded below.
Basically, on the extras disc on Charlie Chaplin’s 1928 film ‘The Circus‘, there’s some footage from the premiere which clearly* shows a person of some description yabbering away on their mobile phone.
Yes, that’s right, their mobile phone…. in 1928!
George Clarke, the chap who discovered this finding, is desperately searching for some kind of explanation because, at the moment, all he can surmise is that this woman** is a massive Chaplin fan from the future who fancied spending her holidays in 1928.
I’m certain there’s a reasonable explanation for this, besides the fact that you would hope that by the time time travel is possible, we’d have advanced mobile technology so far that holding it up to our ears would be a thing of the past?! No?
Take a look for yourself, the final bit where she turns at glances up while still talking is the thing that got me.
*about as clear as anything can be in old non-HD black & white
**is it a woman? George raises the issue of her apparent manliness and her overly large feet – perhaps in the future we’ll all be dressed in drag?
What do you think?!
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