Media Dojo is focused on the intersection of cloud computing and digital media and marketing. Media Dojo aims to record and analyze the passage from a client/server and document-centric web to cloud/device, real-time and visual web.

So why call it a dojo?

A dojo is where people go to learn, to experiment, to take risks and make mistakes, to keep showing up and advance a little more each time. I’ve been going to the dojo for about 27 years now, through several different arts, but focused on similar goals of improving. Media Dojo aims to create a similar vibe for the media, marketing and technology professionals who will use cloud computing to reshape an entire ecosystem.

Outside of martial arts, I was a paid fortune teller for the technology, media and advertising industries until November 2008. I made market forecasts about mobile media and advertising plus other areas where advanced technologies mixed with the media and marketing craft. I had been exposed to what is now called cloud computing in 2004-2005 when it was called “utility computing”. Since then, enough base technology has been productized to make me think it’s 1994 all over again, a few months pre-Netscape.

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I’m going to post think pieces, interviews, presentations, and podcasts on the intersection of cloud computing with media and marketing. I’m not a daily poster. This isn’t the place to get your up-to-the-minute news on cloud computing or media. It’s where you go for perspective and to find unique fellow travelers.

In Japanese budo, a crucial goal is to reach a state of Banpen Fugyo meaning “10,000 changes, no surprises”. I figure that’s a good enough measure of success for this site.