#diana1love Soul Sessions 2, heard it still think Motown should promote Diana Ross

I may have gone a bit fanciful since I got into radio a bit more but I am still thinking that Motown or whoever is supposed to do such things should promote the Diana Ross version of One Love in My Lifetime. Last week and this I am backing up for an hour on Phonic FM while the Storyteller is at a festival. Both shows based on the CD, but last week mostly from YouiTube. We found most of the originals and One Love is the most interesting. Not promoted much so far though Joss version now on YouTube.

Teardrops is slowed right down so One Love is the most obvious dance track, I think. thing is, Diana Ross version just that bit easier to dance to, especially in remix already available.

Not sure what Motown know about this. But they should either promote it or something similar. Not that I go out dancing much now but this seems to me a possibility worth exploring.

By the way, track only on the deluxe CD, an extra couple of pounds for four tracks.  

Listen again c/o YouTube, sections from Soul Sessions on Phonic FM

Last week and next I am doing the 9-10 slot in the morning. The Storyteller has some sudden festival bookings. I also do the first half hour of the Wild Show so this fitted ok.  Monday is the UK release for Soul Sessions Vol 2 so this was the main focus of my selection. Several tracks are on YouTube already. Next week there will be tracks from the actual CD. Phonic FM has no listen again feature so I have put some sequences on YouTube - Phonic Soul Sessions A-D. Thanks to Gareth for bringing the equipment and knowledge to play the vinyl. More vinyl may turn up before Thursday or maybe some other time. One welcome consequence of this new release is the energy for checking out past potential.

Questions for Cross Media Live, magazines moving to web, Adobe interest in PDF

My recent posts may have gone into rave mode just a little.

Here is an attempt to formulate some questions in a more reasonable tone. There is still a month or so and I find the way a blog works is that answers sometimes turn up, even if indirectly.

The Guardian group is not the only media organisation moving online. I notice presentations connected to Haymarket, Future and Dennis. What is the current viability of the print publishing? Is the resource there to cope with an online future? Do the current readers understand what is going on?

Also I think there are issues around social media that I can't summarise easily. The audience can contribute in various ways and also expect to. Do the journalists understand this or want to?

Adobe are getting interested. I don't know if they have a stand but they are sponsor for some talks. It may just be me but I know nothing of any future Acrobat though the Creative Suite was updated a while back. If there is little interest from Adobe in development or promotion, why will the high price levels for Acrobat continue? iPad Photoshop for less than a music CD, Acrobat on the desktop what price to expect? I guess PDF is still of some interest for people attending.

Leadership as Design Science

This blog post is to suggest some connections.I'm not sure how this will work out but something seems possible.

Found this through Google. Not an academic source but I am interested in #mtw3 as a way to link practice and theory. ( search on #mtw3 for more )

The keynote for #mtw3 is from John Burgoyne. So far there are two versions on YouTube, latest shown

It turns out that scientific leadership might be possible and although this might be an aside it could be explored.

Design Science is referenced in an article from 2006 - 

British Journal of Management, Vol. 17, 303–316 (2006) 

Towards Best or Better Practice in
Corporate Leadership Development:
Operational Issues in Mode 2 and Design
Science research

linking to

Management Research Based on the Paradigm of
the Design Sciences: The Quest for Field-Tested
and Grounded Technological Rules

Joan E. van Aken
Eindhoven University of Technology

Journal of Management Studies 41:2 March 2004
0022-2380

I started thinking about this again when I found Teaching as Design Science, a recent book by Diana Laurillard

It seems likely that this could work with a management approach but I need to know more about Design Science to be able to describe how.

I am also interested in Deming and the Model of Sustainable Organisation

Leadership is part of this and it might be design science. Again, not sure how to map this.

Also I think that soft systems thinking is related. One of the mysteries of Lancaster Unbiversity is that Systems and Learning are in different departments. This may be a general situation, not sure. 

Anyway, comments please.

Design for Wild Show tomorrow, Anita Baker permalink for Joss Stone

I'm not quite sure what will happen tomorrow so design takes the form of readiness for various options. Chris is returning but has asked me to do the first half hour, 10 - 10.30. The Storyteller is away this week and next on some sudden festival bookings so I have offered to take over. I think there should be some stories and have found him on YouTube. But the main event is Soul Sessions Volume Two, available as a CD next Monday for the UK. Most of it is on YouTube already or at least a few tracks.

I mentioned this on an internal Phonic email list and I think someone may turn up who understands how to play vinyl. It may sound obvious but requires some extra bits of kit. How many actual records will appear I don't know. The tracks go back to the '60s so I think eventually a lot of links will be discovered.

Bill Bradley has made one error I think. Joss Stone was born in Dover but he was probably not phoning her "Dover home". Why this kind of music comes from Devon is still a bit of a mystery but the facts will sink in eventually.

All we need is a credible narrative. This extract is a start-

Who are some of your influences?
When I was really young I liked a lot of female vocalists. My parents’ music collection was what I had, so they luckily have really good taste. My dad liked the Specials and Linton Kwesi Johnson, and he had a James Brown record that I stole. And my mom liked the big singers — Anita Baker, Whitney Houston, Melissa Etheridge. I really like emotion in music. Without emotion, it’s a bit wasted. 

Joss told Andrew Marr that Teardrops was the only song on the CD she knew previously. So maybe the style is coming from Anita Baker, I shall try to play some and see how it fits. JD will turn up about ten so there could be some 80s dance. He likes Teardrops but I think Joss is trying to take the style of this back in time. I will get in some country as well.

Also hope to talk about the Any High Street show at RAMM. The promotion / rights access on music is not the same as with gallery images. Discussion could take a long time and an hour and a half is not that long for music.  

Guardian media and education coverage, where is this heading?

Looking back on Monday and Tuesday in print. I think the Guardian may have given up on news as such. Print journalists now offer opinion, maybe hoping for some comment. Do they really mean what they write?

Previously from Antonia Senior

Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that plastic case, other things lurk. Sci-fi and self-help. Even paranormal romance, where vampires seduce virgins and elves bonk trolls.

This week

The humanities graduates expect to read a book and learn from it. Developers are more hands-on, trying things out and adapting as they go.

So do techies read books? 

The real problem seems to be the employment prospects for recdent humanities graduates or indeed anyone else- 

Growing numbers of arts graduates squabble over dwindling jobs in contracting media industries. The money's rotten, the prospects are poor, and yet still the next generation come, drawn by the lure of being "creative". And the faltering industries welcome them in, using them as unpaid labour and skivvies while pretending that the jobs at the end of the rainbow are worth having.

There is still almost no discussion in Guardian Media about citizen journalism on the OhmyNews model - including the readers on a sensible basis. Possibly professional journalists can continue to fill space with opinion and anecdote, but the news organisations face other issues.

Print sales down 10% , how long till they go weekly? or stop printing altogether? 

Tuesday , education, critique on Pearson

I can't help thinking about BETT where the BBC used to have a stand. The Guardian and others were very vocal in demanding that the BBC cut back on such activity. If there is not much happening from other sources then Pearson and other companies will make the running on tech innovation.

Recently Google paid for a page of the Guardian that took a look at educational policy in the UK. Around the time of BETT Michael Gove did have a look at e-learning. Perhaps some of the exhibitors were influential. 

Another story found while looking for this one.

Edinburgh is the only UK one.

Dr Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group, which represents leading universities including Oxbridge and Edinburgh, said: "Online technologies provide huge opportunities for the dissemination of knowledge, and our universities are continuing to take advantage by, for example, putting lectures online through iTunes U and YouTube, or by making much of our research open access. Russell Group universities have always been at the forefront of online innovations, and we are keen to exploit this further."

So that's alright then. If the Guardian has a clear plan of a digital future, it could be better known to readers. A drift of casual knocking of techies and Kindle readers is not helping. At least Pearson seems to have a clear direction.

 

 

Richer Sounds, top of Fore Street more photos from near Exeter High Street

I think the third woodcut will appear soon in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum. thjis is a couple of weeks in so something should appear even if it is not finished.

Meanwhile I have done some more photos. In daylight, I need the sunshine to get me walking.

Richer Sounds

Fore Street

Other consumer electronics shops do exist. I just think the video skips over Richer Sounds as the camera bike copes with the roundabout. So these are as balance.

There could be more photos of the High Street and the city centre. I still think the scope can be seen as wider.

Critique and transformation, scope of media

I have put a comment on the Critical Management site.

The conference on Critical Governance is titles this year as "From Critique to Transformation" so is looking beyond academic journals. My comment is intended to ask what this means for the media in use.

The link works ok to YouTube from Tariq Ali, one of the speakers.

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I have also found a PDF

editorial by Michael Power. So there is free access to academic writing. But I'm not sure how widely known this is.

If social media is included in the scope of the conference there could be new forms of communication by December or soon after.

Wild Show, more on design #Design!? #phonic_fm @phonic_fm

See previous posts for attempts at linking the Design!? conference to a radio show and how the two shows were "designed" before the event.

Story so far in summary, there was an email about free access to journal articles from Sage on the occasion of Design!? , a conference in Helsinki that closed recently.

Constant Connectivity: Rethinking Interruptions at Work 
By J. Wajcman and E. Rose

The Dialectical Sense of Humour: Routine Joking in a Taylorized Factory 
By M. Korczynski

So these were discussed during the first show by JD and me ( I covered two shows for Chris Norton on a short break ) by means of a question whether Chris is actually a manager, and my claim that I could not cope with email, phone calls etc. Then in show two we got an actual phone call from Chris announcing we had to be ready for an outside broadcast. So the second hour is not much like what I thought it would be.

Design is really interesting by the way. The London College of Printing keeps changing the name. Also the structure. Print and Publishing has gone, there is now Design and Media. Maybe these are just generic terms that could cover anything. I did once understand publishing and print as sort of stages in a workflow, but design and media are just an overlap with no distinction at all. Anyway I shall just mumble on about this. Someone has an answer.

Another bit worth copying-

In 2013, for the first time, the Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) will be held outside Europe! As a city historically based on different cultures, Montréal has long been considered a hub for people and merchandise flowing between North America and Europe. It is thus a perfect location to explore the theme of the 29th EGOS Colloquium: Bridging Continents, Cultures and Worldviews.

Also I found an interesting topic in the archive-

Has management studies lost its way? Very interesting, but I can't find any other info. Maybe there is a journal somewhere in an academic library with the answer or at least what was said. Working on a radio show offers me a very different take on copyright, distribution and publicity. Most tracks from Joss Stone Soul Sessions Volume 2 are on YouTube as live performance. Probably not all of them. Still worth buying the CD. But the contrast with academic writing is stark. If some of it is critique, who is the critique intended for? Another post later.

There is not much to be found on Twitter searching on Design!? so far I only found one blog, see previous post.

worth repeating

  on Serendipity

I found especially fruitful the discussion of whether serendipity can be routinized, which I think persuaded me that this is impossible. By contrast, I remain convinced that it can be facilitated by allowing or creating safe unmanaged spaces in our lives where unexpected things can happen. Of course, such spaces are all too often experienced as messy, dangerous and confusing, but as my old professor Paul Feyerabend liked to say "Without mess, no discovery". If serendipity favours the prepared mind, it also favours the soul that is willing to live with messy uncertainty. It favours the person who is not afraid to get lost from time to time, to make detours from his/her planned journeys and to waste time and other resources without regrets and shame.
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If there is more, please add a comment. Gibson Burrell stories on quality projects would be interesting.

For the next few months I only have half an hour so will concentrate on music. Starts with pop / soul , then folk, then dance/electronics through August Sidmouth folk week and Joss Stone in Exeter around September. Aims include pushing the scope of folk to include more pop and taking JD back beyond the '80s ( several old soul tracks )  . Of course Chris is back so the show may return to normal.