Paul Roberts
Melbourne, Australia
social impacts of digital media
As someone with a professional interest in thinking about the future, I often say to people that I am condemned to work on interesting things. I love a good strategic conversation.
I've got experience in scenario planning, trend analysis, briefings and horizon scanning
I'm currently employed at the Australian Communications and Media Authority and track communications and media trends and developments. There is a lot happening!
I've got experience in scenario planning, trend analysis, briefings and horizon scanning
I'm currently employed at the Australian Communications and Media Authority and track communications and media trends and developments. There is a lot happening!
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Morgan Stanley - Institutional ServicesWeb 2.0 Summit preso on mobile internet
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Link by Link - The Amish Paper The Budget Explores a Move Online - NYTimes.comExploring News by the Amish Online IT’S not easy being the emissary from the digital world in Amish country. For two weeks this summer, Jessica Best, a 22-year-old journalist from Wales, fell into that role as the intern at The Budget of Sugarcreek, Ohio, a weekly that is the largest ...
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The FREE debateDoes "Free" make sense This lens is a watercooler and discussion hub for the debate about Chris Anderson's new book. All proceeds go to charity. Check below for the chronology of some of the posts, then chime in with your own take. It helps if you read the book at some point. Part of what ...
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Michael Geist - In Case You Missed It: Reflecting on the CRTC's Net Neutrality HearingIn case you missed or avoided the CRTC net neutrality hearing, I thought I would post a few reflections (my summaries of the events are available at Day 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , and 7 ; additional coverage NetNeutrality.ca ). While there were some notable anecdotes and quotes (Rogers ...
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Is Twitter Really That Big?Interesting but not surprising. I wonder what a comparative study of other social networks would reveal. I would not be surprised that many people sign up just to look then leave, or their activity level is really low. How would Twitter rate compared to other new social nets?Paul Roberts added 5 months ago
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Groups: The Secret Weapon of the Social Web - ReadWriteWebI wonder what the next move will be. How open will one person's groups be to others - how discoverable (searchable) will they be to sharing and generating discussion and new ideas?Paul Roberts added 6 months ago
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How Will We Cope With the Web?i like your thinking about collective human intelligence - that has been a long-standing attraction to the web for me. It also lends itself to inter-disciplinary or integrated thinking too. Not just an economics approach or psychological or sociological and multi-cultural etc. A deeper ...Paul Roberts added 8 months ago
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Social Media ClassroomHoward Rheingold and colleagues are doing ground-braking work herePaul Roberts added to Social Media 8 months ago
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