Chris Anderson (of The Long Tail and editor of Wired) has written a fascinating series of blogs considering the future of journalism and media, focused through the question - what would radical transparency mean for Wired? (part one, part two and an interesting follow-up).
Some really provocative, thoughtful stuff in there, and through the serendipity of bloglines it was the thing I read just before the latest musings from Gordon's Republic (a blog by the editor of brand republic, the online presence of Haymarket titles like Campaign and Marketing).
And although you wouldn't call Gordon's Republic 'radical transparency' it's a really welcome slice of timely opinion on ads and marketing and stuff. It's sharply-written, simply designed (versus the visual assault of Brand Republic) and has the blessed feedback mechanism of commenting, which at least gives it the potential to be more of a conversation than a lecture (to use Mr Anderson's analogy.) Let's hope the Haymarket powers that be read The Long Tail blog. It's also good to see that George Parker is going to be writing for Brand Republic next year. That'll wake some people up.
(Full disclosure: I write a column for Campaign so depending whether you think I'm bigging them up or having a go, you could see me as either sucking up or nibbling the hand that feeds me.)
Excellent, George is a great character.
I still havent seen your campaign column with my blog mention in yet (my brother returns with his copy of it next week, its non-existent in Sheffield). But thanks again :)
Posted by: Rob Mortimer | December 15, 2006 at 10:45 AM