Monthly Archives: December 2005

Homework for the European market

Viviane Reding (European commissioner of IST and Media) has recently published the proposal for the new directive following television without frontiers. If you are working in European Territory this is obligatory reading.
Download the directive at: http://europa.eu.int/comm/avpolicy/regul/com2005-646-final-en.pdf

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Cluetrain manifesto

I am ringing along with Jacqueline Fackeldey who wrote a comment on the cluetrain manifesto. In the manifesto one of the main points is that markets are conversations and you have to listen to them. That got my attention right away, because it covers 2 of my main principles when working with crossmedia. There are [...]

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Dutch Creative Industry and figures about the bizz

The Dutch government has pinpointed the creative industry to be of importance for the Netherlands economy. At the crossmedia cafe Paul Rutten of HvU, presented some of his work on analysing the industry in the North Wing of the Netherlands. Most creative industry is concentrated around the cities (no surprise here) Amsterdam has largest creative [...]

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Crossmedia about the pearls and the pigs..

In the Netherlands more and more people are opting for being crossmedia specialists. Allas this is devaluating the term, because some are rightfully claiming, but a lot are not.In the Netherlands there are only a handfull of people really knowledgeable in this converging field because they have been working on it for many years. It [...]

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Fare crossmedia. Max Giovagnolli

Max Giovagnoli has published his book on crossmedia communication and was so very kind as to send it to me, as he has quoted me a couple of times in his book. I am very honoured by that and it is quite fun to see your own words in italian. A language unfortunately I don’t [...]

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Now experiencing the camera’s in front…

My role in broadcast and video production has always been on the backside of the production. There are two kinds of people in television production, the ones wanting to be in front of a camera and the ones from the “back”. I am definitely a ‘backsider’. But on 1 december I was invited to try [...]

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