studying the media ecosystem
A retired venture capitalist and a newspaper columnist in his 80s are the standard-bearers for the non-profit media startup VoiceofSanDiego.org. A kindly profile in Online Journalism Review asks whether the new webzine is “a well-funded anomaly or one of the early pioneers in a nonprofit news revolution?” Paid Content’s Staci Kramer pointed me to OJR, [...]
A Chicago Tribune article earlier this month offered a lighthearted look at life as a series of subscriptions — to movie services, health clubs, music downloads, etcetera. It was an entertaining read that made me wonder: why then does conventional wisdom hold that there’s no way to charge for emerging media content such as blogs, [...]
Behavioral targeting should allow web publishers to deliver customized content and advertising by inferring what you might want to read or buy based on what you’ve already done. Some online firms are racing to deliver on this promise. Others say go slow. Is behavior the promise or the pitfall? I won’t settle the issue [...]
About three dozen people gathered this weekend at the scenic Presidio, a former Army outpost at the foot of the Golden Gate bridge, to figure out how to popularize the notion and the practice that people should create and share, not merely consume, media. Citizen media is the broad name for this movement. JD [...]
I began this week with a tongue-in-cheek oxymoron ( Intelligent Television?), so why not end on a similar note by mentioning the BlogNashville conference organized under the auspices of the Media Bloggers Association.A CNN report said the two-day event, which drew more than 300 bloggers, “was heavy on teaching techniques used by journalists … (such [...]
Yahoo continues to evolve into the very model of the modern major media, the latest evidence being its deal to air a special webcast-only version of The Contender, the reality TV show where tough guys beat each other to evoke winces and howls from couch potatoes. So what if this is a bit low [...]
For argument’s sake, let’s say that bloggers as pontificators who work in their pajamas, and assume that they’d like to earn enough from their writings to buy some street clothes. If so, then the new-launched and aptly-named advertising service Pajamas Media may be the answer to their pecuniary and sartorial dreams. Thanks to [...]
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