Author Archives: Chris Wright
With the entry of Netflix, Amazon and Apple into the content provision business, traditional and even satellite broadcasters can be forgiven for looking somwhat uneasily over their shoulders. These intruders are not to be ignored, they are serious players with serious infrastructure and marketing nous behind them. The business of broadcasting, be it public service [...]
The Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA and its senate companion Protect IP Act PIPA are causing all sorts of bother on the internet today with sites such as Wikipaedia closing down in protest. Superficially, this is about Silicon Valley disrupting the media industry. We’ve seen the effect of downloads on the music industry and the [...]
It’s that time of year when popular (or in this case singular) demand dictates that a planned, indefinite hiatus may need to be suspended in order to enumerate the coolest, most yulest, recordings of 2011. In no particular order, this is the music that caused my jaw to drop this year. 1. Lanterns on the … Continue reading »
Interesting exchange on Twitter with Edmond Terakopian this morning about the Leveson inquiry and its refusal to engage with the British Press Photographer’s Association. Edmond feels very strongly that the inquiry should engage, I’m not so convinced that the issue that is important to the BPPA is central to the business of the inquiry. Firstly, [...]
I suppose I’m of an age now where death, if not exactly surrounding me, becomes a little less unexpected. Which doesn’t explain the sense of sadness I felt over the recent death of Amy Winehouse and this weekend’s tragic news about Gary Speed. There was no similarity of course, excepting their celebrity and that is [...]
I’ve had a great time this week building a web site for my photographic adventures – Electrical Image. This was precipitated by 500px falling out with their fulfilment guys, Fotomoto. I figure that if anyone is going to buy a picture through the site, it will be between now and Christmas. I still love the [...]
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do [...]
There’s an awful lot of bollox that gets talked about brands these days. Personal brands, global brands, build your brand, sell your brand. Sits neatly next to the instant gratification culture we seem to be hell bent on creating. I wonder what happened to craft? In Brighton, the capital city of quirk, brand led ventures [...]
Now I’m pretty tolerant of business language on the whole. Certain americanisms ending in “ize” (or even “isms”!) are mildly irritating, but they get the job done. This week however I came across a phrase that sets a new low. The use of “Sexed Up” in a business context is surely a step too far. [...]
Could it be that Karl Marx was right? Instinctively, I’ve felt for some time now that capitalism and the associated relentless lust for novelty is basically no better than a pyramid selling scheme, by which I mean that our obsession with economic growth has the effect that any wealth accumulated by an organisation or individual [...]
