Digigen & The TinMan

I’ll be quite old then, so perhaps won’t even have the ability to touch, shout or finger my way around technology like I can now. However, I’ll be safe in the knowledge that at the ripe old age of 62 there will be lots of interesting technology out there which will have evolved from the stuff we are playing around with now.

Don’t be alarmed though, each of these nodes are linked into a wikipedia entry allowing you to understand what it is we will all be staring dumbly at in 2040…

Joking apart, Michell Zappa at Envisioning Tech has done a fantastic job of nailing this and making it easy (as possible) to understand. (click on the image to see the whole thing)

Prasanna Puwanarajah won the British Airways Great Briton award. He created this film about an emotional bond between father and son tragically cut short but also brought together by cycling.

‘BOY,’ by British Airways Great Britons winner Prasanna Puwanarajah

This is a stunning film from Rishi Kaneria which I first viewed a couple of days ago on his Vimeo channel. He captures the essence of the time by switching to black and white imagery. Overlaying Nehru’s speech on the eve of India’s independence to this really creates something that is beautiful.

While The World Sleeps from Rishi Kaneria on Vimeo.

Here is a link to Rishi’s channel so you can see some of his other great pieces of work:

Great video showing the possibilities of human dancers dressed in EL light suits. I bet this sort of thing would look great at a product or automotive launch.

I’m doing research into modern publishing models and how they can affect the way magazine brands distribute content. Although there isn’t alot of exciting stuff apart from the standard – treat digital as its own publishing channel, I did find this interesting piece from Sourcebooks. They refer to what they are trying to do as The Agile Publishing Model and it is quite new, although actually I think Guy Kawasaki tried to do this with his recent books.

The Agile Publishing Model is based on Dominique Raccah’s theory that:

“building audience participation before the writing and publication of a book was a way to help readers discover new work, as well as leading to greater sales”

This seems to make sense and of course feels true. Build partcipation before you launch is smart and means when you hit activation stage, you already have a willing band of followers. This applies to most industries really, but the publishing industry does always seem slow to keep up.

Raccah told the audience: “We’re going to develop the book and build a community [around it] and the community is going to influence how the book is developed.”

I think it is smart, modern behaviour. So we shall see how it pans out.

You can also see Futurist David Houle talking about it below (poor sound quality but you get the idea)

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