June 8, 2013
by ianforrester
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The above video real or not real it doesn’t matter, 1.7 million people to date have watched #publooshocker. Reminds me very much of John Doe on Se7en and used in perceptive media presentations. John Doe: Wanting people to listen, you … Continue reading
June 1, 2013
by ianforrester
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Thanks to Documentally for the picture Thinking Digital 2013 for me started on Monday with a lovely dinner with a number of other people in Newcastle. I find its always worth booking in and getting to Newcastle/Gateshead a day early … Continue reading
May 28, 2013
by ianforrester
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I’m very happy to say Perceptive Media/Radio made it on to BBC Click today. Its short and sweet but so nice to hear its inspired even more people. Greg from Mudlark explains the idea and then I chime in later … Continue reading
May 28, 2013
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From the Independent today… something which sounds like a episode of Black Mirror… The most cunning trick of the internet is that, with the help of some clever algorhythm-tracking piece of technology, it follows our online behaviour and reflects it … Continue reading
May 22, 2013
by ianforrester
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Photo credit: Greg Povey, @topfife CC-BY-SA (official photo) Today at the Thinking digital conference in Gateshead, we (BBC R&D) launched the latest prototype for Perceptive Media. Perceptive Radio, is a project collaboration between BBC R&D, Mudlark and MCQN ltd. It … Continue reading
May 13, 2013
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A while back I wrote a blog about how implicit data is the dark matter to the explicit. I also write about it in my wired/tired/expired post. Well I thought its about time I started writing why the implicit is … Continue reading
April 25, 2013
by ianforrester
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3 years ago I was meant to stand up at Thinking Digital and call an end to BBC Backstage, although I bet my reasoning wouldn’t be so well reasoned back then due to the obvious. A year before that I … Continue reading
April 8, 2013
by ianforrester
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I had the pleasure of going to Thorpe Park on the weekend as I gatecrashed Kate’s Birthday. A number of things got me thinking as I queued 18 times for Stealth, 10 times for the Swarm (forward and backwards), 3 … Continue reading
April 3, 2013
by ianforrester
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The guardian has a article titled What next for the quantified self… The quantified self movement – the idea that tracking metrics about yourself can lead to self-improvement – appears to be gathering steam. With products such as the FitBit … Continue reading
February 1, 2013
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I was half watching Newsnight and working on my laptop, on Thursday 31st January on BBC2. Newsnight finished and the weather came on. Now the #uksnow is pretty much out the way, I’m not so interested in the weather. Anyway … Continue reading
January 9, 2013
by ianforrester
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Almost everything we’ve focused on recently has been the explicit actions and feedback of people. But as pointed out in Perceptive Media, the rich stuff is the implicit actions and feedback. This is also the stuff which advertisers would cream … Continue reading
December 19, 2012
by ianforrester
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I’m hearing a lot of talk about how 2013 is The year responsive design starts to get weird… or rather how its going to be all about responsive design (what happened to adaptive designing who knows) Think it’s hard to … Continue reading
December 11, 2012
by ianforrester
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Someone from the BBC’s Future Media PR pointed out to me that I was in the latest issue of Wired UK. The whole thing isn’t online yet but I’ve made a manual copy (thanks to Laura Sharpe for buying the … Continue reading
December 3, 2012
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Ok its not exactly #perceptivemedia but its certainly got elements of perceptive media… Trying to remember who posted it to me? Maybe I’ll add credit later, for now Dara can take the credit.
December 2, 2012
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While working on Perceptive Media, I came across many examples of narrative and the power of storytelling. Something which I’ve been trying to demonstrate in my presentations pointing at how little subtle things can have huge effects. Recently I saw … Continue reading