Analytics action point 3 - Green Man in Exeter

YouTube analytics shows me that some topics get many fewer views than I would like. The Green Man in Exeter is now one of the best bits I think. This year there was less time to promote the event and no special programme on Phonic FM. But I do have a reasonable coverage of what happened in 2011 and 2012. Search on "Green Man Exeter" to find several.

The interviews worked well.

should find parts 2 and 3

but of the 18 people who looked at part one, only 9 followed to the others.

So this post is the start of more energy to promote search on "Green Man Exeter"

Analytics action point 2 - non stop dancing

YouTube analytics tells me that there is a lot of interest in James Last - Non-Stop Dancing 1972. Thing is that this is actually the start of a C90 mix tape based on music from a Celebration of Failure by Laura Kikauka at Spacex in Exeter. I think the premise was that the failure is in public taste though it can be rescued or callaged into a gallery. For example disco / pop. There was the space to play discs and I also brought in two of my own. So the six LPs are genuine art relics.

I have added some new clips all called James Last non stop dancing 1972 though with a warning that some of them do not include James Last. Therer are several visual links to a conversation in the Phoenix bar after a New Exeter Radio Show. This includes the artwork and some more explanation

I think it may be time to move on to the '80s. It is a matter of time and distance from direct engagement. A new project could be in a gallery where the music was seen as a bit naff or in a dance environment where the graphics were treated with perhaps less attention than in a gallery. There could be various combinations and locations. I would like to record the conversations. I thought it a wasted chance that there was not some recording of the opening event for the Celebration of Failure.

So link suggestions please. To be continued.

Analytics action point 1 - Sound of the Sirens

See previous post for Adobe on analytics, But YouTube and Google seem easier to follow and makes more sense at the moment. My YouTube channel is described as Rougemont Global Broadcasting. This turns out to be more or less true although it started as a version of a local cable tv station. It could have been a demo of what was possible with local cable. But now  something online is more likely I think. Exeter TV is still a possibility though Jo Gedrych is in Scotland. Maybe something related will happen there.


Butterflies by Sound of the Sirens has over 3000 views. This was from Acoustica a couple of years ago at the Phoenix Exeter. There are other tracks but they are on tape. I still have to edit more that is on disc from the Zi8. Now it is spring in theory I should get out more and take advantage of the light. It was the long winter evenings that suited editing. There is a backlog though waht is there is representative.

I have added two from Sidmouth last year at Dukes. Not sure of the title on one song

So I wonder if they will reach a similar audience. There is a pause at one point but they recover quickly.

The Sound of the Sirens will appear at a Phonic benefit in May. I have started a playlist on YouTube

I think that playlists may be a way to "listen again" to broadcasts on Phonic. Some of these songs will be on the Wild Show on a Thursday morning. 

on not going to drupa

The year is taking shape. The winterlude was a while ago but I don't seem to have finished with it.

Learning Technologies and especially the learning without frontiers was pretty clear. The cloud is viable in the UK.

I still think that video will be the most obvious technology at drupa. But as part of social media in general. So I think I can probably follow the gist of drupa from a desktop in Exeter. Only way to check is to try it. It can't be another inkjet drupa. Last time was clearly web-to-print, at least in the dip.

For one thing the companies not there include Apple and Adobe. Since early '80s they have been the main source of disruptive tech. Now Apple might be into television. The HD capability on the recent iPad is pretty much wasted on UK bandwidth. Not sure where this is going but way beyond hard copy file sizes.

Adobe is launching new products around analytics. Maybe creative software is about to run out of margin. But is analytics that complicated either? the new Flash? Statistics is not yet widely discussed but process control has been studied in manufacturing for decades. They do have a point though. I have started to check the analytics on YouTube. I respond variously. Some things there should be more of as they get watched. Others need promotion as they seem to be ignored. More on this later.

One thing that is clear is that timescales are all over the place. Since thinking back to Postscript it may not matter which year it is. But it is slightly confusing that I was interested in a Cross Media event in autumn 2011 though it was postponed to 2012. It will be in Islington UK. The first idea for it was on the way back from digi:media

But the timescale seems to me to be out of scale, even as I lose track of the odd month or two. Another problem is that the dip - the innovation parc- tends to be missed in the attention for all the heavy metal. Even the inkjet is impressive. So I think you may have to imagine 2013 for a digi:media / dip in clear focus.

Meanwhile back to "pre-media", not yet ready as "cross-media". Unless there is a rethink in the next few weeks.

I am also imagining that some print will be vanishing soon, or in few enough years to count as soon. Printweek in hard copy is a promotion for the website. "Ask Jo" just tells you the problem in print. And the Guardian may get even smaller as well in terms of pages. I don't always believe what print journalists write. Especially about print.

Exeter Holi http://youtu.be/iIfV_BOgQAs Hindu Temple Project YouTube link

This is an edit from yesterday

I thought it was a bit cold by the end of the afternoon but the younger people were very sensibly wearing T shirts.

Why don't more people in Exeter know about this? Should there be a training session a few weeks earlier? I think some people may have started throwing colour too soon.

By the way there was food but I forgot to video, too busy eating.

Start of Giraffe script for Gripping Yarns project

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aBOGiUeTihwVEUTB9khtvjK9D9fPjifzdZNY1AMARgY/edit

I have started a script for Gripping Yarns. Needs about 1000 words for five minutes.

But to explain this project to the Gifted Giraffe, it will need to fit into tweets, say about twenty of them.

I hope to get some suggestions from Chris and JD on the Wild Show later today.

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