Future Exploration Chairman Ross Dawson sums up the extensive media and blog coverage of the San Francisco + Sydney Future of Media Summit this month, which I wrote about here on July 16.
Of the various media and blog items linked from Ross’ post, one in particular caught my eye, an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, by communications researcher, analyst and regular opinion columnist Graeme Philipson. In The Lost Art of Blogging, published a day before the Summit, he makes it clear that he doesn’t have much or any time for blogging.
I don’t blog. Can’t see the point, when I …read more

This time last year I had the privilege of participating in the Future of Media Summit, organized by Ross Dawson’s Future Exploration Network (FEN) and held simultaneously in Sydney and San Francisco. My recollection of having enjoyed the event was reinforced just now when I re-read the comment I emailed to Ross the following day, as displayed now on the FEN blog -
Thank you very much for the Summit yesterday. It was a buzzzzzzzzzz! This was a truly impressive lineup of bright, highly informed, entertaining people, who gave great value.
Yes, it was a great buzz and one of the many …read more

Here’s a reason for making sure you set up – and read regularly – RSS feeds for blogs you are interested in: so you don’t miss the drinks.
The thought was prompted by a throwaway by Ross Dawson, speaking at his very successful event in Sydney during the week – Web 2.0 in Australia – when he mentioned a follow-on drinks event that evening: if we’d read his blog, he said, we’d have known about it.
Tough for those not keeping up.
I’d booked myself on a flight out of Sydney that night and had to be at the airport about when the …read more

Lately I’ve been collecting links to blog posts which help me understand more of what Web 2.0 is about, where some of the key developments are taking place, and what a more Web 2.0 world might look like.
But for a person who loves words and having things explained in words, I am also a sucker for a good spatial explanation, a diagram.
Preferably a diagram with pictures.
So it was a thrill to receive in my email last night a message from Ross Dawson, strategy consultant, speaker, best-selling author and Chairman of the Future Exploration Network, with a link to the post on …read more