Media Dojo

I’m in London and Munich over the next couple of weeks. London is a special pleasure as my wife and I lived here for four years during the early 90s. Our daughter was born in St. Marys hospital in Paddington.

Things are very busy now…aside from the Mobile Augmented Reality work done for GigaOm Pro, this coming Monday (18 Jan), I’m scheduled for 90min in front of the 25 or so managing directors of Associated Northcliffe Digital to talk about secular shifts in consumer media markets caused by convergence. AND is the largest premium website publisher in the UK, with about 1/3 of the adult population checking in as uniques each month. It’s been a hell of a task to work on a preso up to that level. I appreciate the confidence of Richard Titus and Dan Taylor to let a humble researcher comme moi arrive at the start of a 2 day executive away meeting to stir up the pot. After the presentation, I’ll re-work some of the material for posting here.

I’m also finishing off the Media Dojo Cloud Computing for Media opus during this week in London. It will weigh in about 65-70 pages and will include four scenarios about the media world in 2020 plus a technical overview of cloud computing specifically targeted to media and marketing professionals. I’m working with Laura Urban Perry, a Seattle-based designer to insure that the visual layout is congruent with what I hope to say. That damn Avatar movie has raised the bar for all of us.

Of course, no trip to London would be complete without dropping in on my old martial art training buddies. So if I get a fetching shiner above or below an eye, I’ll be sure to post a picture.

Following London will be Deutschland…my first time. I’m going to Munich to attend the DLD Conference. The speaker line up is world class and it’s got a similar vibe as the Monaco Media Forum in being invitation-only, small crowd, low key and high powered—just the way I like it.

Expect some posts and interviews over the coming days as these events fall into line…for right now, however, I’m going to crack a beer and watch Hulu…9+ hours in British Airways can do that to a person.

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