Robert Paterson's Weblog

On demand TV

I have spent two great days in St Louis finding out more about TV. Jack kindly let me sit in on a number of focus group meetings. One of the topics that was discussed was Time Shifting. More people than I thought used TIVO Here is Jeff...

The end of TV - The Mid Term Election

The New York Times says it all - Cultural footnote … One other piece of conventional wisdom that can R.I.P.: Election night would be a do-or-die test for the three new network anchors as they squared off for the first time. With only a...

A Customer focused strategy for Universities?

The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University is the top ranked MBA school in the US and hence the world. What makes this small school in near Chicago the leader? It puts the student first not only in how it teaches them bu...

The New Customer Revolution - How I think that it really works

The mass consumption, centralized machine model is dying. Why? Because it shrinks choice and voice. Its relationship with employees and with customers is primarily adversarial. Just as Ford changed everything 100 years ago for all busin...

Switching to Apple

Well the journey has begun. I got my new iBook this weekend. It is like learning a new language - maybe an Italian learning Spanish. It is so neat though. But I am a beginner again. More later as issues turn up. Thanks to Jevon for sett...

The new financing model for the new economy

Dave Pollard is getting so close to defining what the new model for enterprise will be like. He calls them Natural Enterprises and defines them as: "A form of self-organized, self-managed, community-based business partnership in which t...

Throwing down the gauntlet. or "You just don't get it!" - The Gospel according to Joe Trippi

I have just finished Joe Trippi's book WOW!!! I have been feeling that we are indeed at a point of paradox where a new and better world is in sight just as we see the world of corporate power and alienation at its most powerful. T...

Social Software AID?

My mother has just phoned me to ask me to donate $1,000 to a charity that will aid children. She, like many of us, is appalled at how many orphans there are now. I was just about to send the money off to the Red Cross or World Vision and...

How does the New Nexus work in Real Time with Citizen Journalists?

Here is a wonderful piece by Elliott Massie (via Learning Post) who observed how the CNN News Team are drawing in and filtering and then broadcasting a flood of blogs, video, photos coming in from Citizens and how their own journalists ...