COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY

“Never make forecasts, especially about the future.” Wise advice from Samuel Goldwyn.   Which I am now about to ignore at my peril.   Here’s my take on what to expect in 2010.

1. The Dawn of Ambient Awareness & Networked Consciousness
What happens when real-time status updates and news feeds are combined with GPS location data [...]

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Check out this useful comment by Mike Hale in today’s NYT heralding the arrival of original video series on the Web.  For too long, broadcasters have regarded the Web as a dumping ground for uninspired promotional content and lame marketing gimmicks for the regular broadcast schedule.  Recently, however, some TV networks are starting to take [...]

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The introduction of Google’s new open source Chrome browser is newsworthy.  So is the way that Google chose to explain the new features to users. Both items are sterling examples of collaborative creativity.
Google teamed up with veteran cartoonist Scott McCloud to create a cool graphic narrative about the new browser.
During a week of breaking news [...]

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My speech at the Cross Media Lab in Melbourne was broadcast last week on ABC 2 in Australia.    The theme of this speech was “Collaborative Creativity”, which refers particularly to my passion for including the audience in the process of creating entertainment.    This is harder than it sounds.  I selected three examples from my personal [...]

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Wow, what a weekend.  I am seriously jet-lagged.    Just returned from X-Media Lab, which is an intensive three-day workshop held periodically in different cities throughout Asia:  Dubai, Shanghai, Seoul, Singapore, Mumbai.   Last weekend XML took place in Melbourne, Australia.
How XML works:  ten individuals with experience in digital media arrive from all corners of the globe.  [...]

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What’s the best way to harness the collective creativity of the entire group of people in your company?
The typical brainstorming session is a bust.  People consider brainstorming a waste of time, or a dead end, or a pointless battle, or a rubber stamp for some executive’s idea.  One of the primary results of the typical [...]

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