Posted in about ben, film / movies, presentations / talks on Nov 24th, 2008
Rachael Turk (my better half) interviews the director of the new Bond film, Marc Forster. It’s the first time that Inside Film have created a video interview and published straight to web.
Daniel Craig & entourage hit Sydney for the premiere of Quantum of Solace. Frenzied photo madness. Looking forward to the next installment. Blogging from the red carpet (well, just to the side!).
Here’s a few pics, not the best quality (iPhone), but you get the idea..
Rachael is interviewing Marc Forster on Tuesday!!
This is a blog version of my magazine article for Inside Film, Issue #115. It’s a review and point of view on some of the latest developments in search and the importance of making rich content stand out online.
Searchable Video
Online video, whether it resides on Meta Cafe, Vimeo, Revver, MySpace, Current TV, or the goliath [...]
Feels like forever that we’ve been getting to know Obama, on flickr, twitter, facebook, youtube, blogs, tv, and the iPhone etc etc. Isn’t he running America already?
Last September I was in Washington Square, NYC and was lucky enough to catch Obama speaking. It was an empowering address that had the crowd ‘fired up and [...]
Posted in about ben, journeys / adventures, photography on Sep 19th, 2008
I’ve recently reconnected with an old friend, Tom Kay (top pic, far right), via an article in Monocle magazine (as you do!). For your interest the article was about the company his behind Finisterre Technical Apparel based in the UK.
Anyway, back in 1994 Tom and I travelled to Chile with Operation Raleigh (now called [...]
Posted in about ben, presentations / talks, social on Sep 6th, 2008
So I joined SlideShare yesterday to share a pres that I put together for an APG training session.
I’ve used the service for research but had yet to share anything. Within an hour I’d received an email from the SlideShare team saying that my pres was to be featured on their homepage. I was thrilled. Is [...]
Posted in about ben, presentations / talks on Sep 5th, 2008
Yesterday I presented at the APG (Account Planning Group) Australia. I was asked by one of our planners to put together a session on digital planning. I felt that the session needed to cover how to plan for today’s fragmented media landscape, the tools that can help us with insights and what we can expect [...]
Posted in about ben, collaborate / participate, interactive, social on Aug 31st, 2008
Annoying that the embeddable button (above) doesn’t really work with my widget width (you know what I mean, right?). Enjoy this whilst its on my homepage (click play), which will probably be a while, as my publishing behaviour is far from regular so it’ll take some time to move to the next.
More importantly have a [...]
Posted in about ben, games / play, whatever on Mar 19th, 2008
Few local celebs in the crowd.
Posted in about ben, collaborate / participate, journeys / adventures, social on Mar 19th, 2008
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Posted in about ben, digital, film / movies, social on Mar 19th, 2008
This is a blog version of the article I wrote for INSIDEFILM #107 (download pdf) March 2008 edition. Following the announcement of iTunes Movie Rentals.
iDistribute
Australian consumers are not just at the end of the food chain, they’re part of it – iTunes ready or not.
In mid-January at Macworld, Apple launched iTunes Movie Rentals that allows [...]
Posted in about ben, advertising, web / phunk, whatever on Feb 22nd, 2008
New work from us. Get happy with the bankwest kittens who’ll sing a little song for you.
Posted in about ben, advertising on Feb 12th, 2008
This is a blog version of the article I wrote for INSIDEFILM #105 (click to download pdf) Dec 07/Jan 08 edition.
Looking back at the year seems to get harder and harder, simply for the fact that so much keeps happening. A poll of web-savvy peers produced unanimous praise for Radiohead’s In Rainbows release and widespread [...]
Posted in about ben, collaborate / participate, whatever on Dec 19th, 2007
All this week (17-21 December) we have Mr Whitty, the jazz songster, stationed in our reception. Through the magic of the ‘interweb’ you can dedicate a song to a friend and he’ll sing it for you live on webcam. Plus, between the hours of 1-2pm (Sydney time only), its happy hour when one of [...]
Posted in about ben, advertising, interactive on Oct 12th, 2007
Yesterday, The Media Report, presented by Antony Funnell, covered The future of advertising online.
Antony interviewed two experts and me. The first Professor Duane Varan, he’s the Director of the Interactive Television Research Institute at Murdoch University in Western Australia. The second, Anne Parsons who is the Chief Executive of the media buying agency, MediaCom.
Its [...]