studying the media ecosystem
Information is plentiful. Attention is scarce. That’s why FM Network — the startup announced by John Battelle and funded by web and media luminaries — is destined to lead the new cohort of content creators wherever they may be going.
FM Network is short for “federated media,” according to Paid Content, where I first noticed John’s [...]
I missed the opening third of the panel discussion on citizen media held Sunday night at the Hillside Club in Berkeley (I plead Father’s Day!). The portions I caught, however, offered encouragement that more inclusive media are emerging. How do we make do-it-yourself media self-supporting? Panelist Dan Gillmor was at his honest best when he [...]
While visiting a friend last night, I watched the documentary “Control Room” on a cable video-on-demand channel, The 85-minute show depicted the Iraq war as seen and reported by the Arab-language news channel Al-Jazeera. Watching it on demand gave me a sense of the opportunities in video publishing in the post-network era.
(Note: If you follow [...]
Interested in Citizen Journalism? If you reside in the San Francisco Bay Area, or will be in the area Sunday night, try to visit the Hillside Club in Berkeley, for what promises to be an interesting panel, including Dan Gillmor, Becky Malley, Peter Merholz, and possibly Craig Newmark.
(Note of apology: for the second straight [...]
(Note: I know not why, but none of my links nor formatting would paste from Word into Blogger today, and rather than infuritate myself with wondering why, I simply post this crippled version, shake my head and walk away!)
Two days of excellent discussion in Paid Content failed to find a simple answer to a beguilingly [...]
I’m back from a weekend in a lovely Redwood park near San Francisco, a trip too brief to offer much rest, but long enough to distract me from “the conversation.” I did, however, return for a purpose that bears on my interest in new media business models — to wit, if we’re heading into the [...]
What if you could make television shows on your desktop and send them out over the Internet? We are about to find out if I understand the upshot of a new software tool based on BitTorrent. The tool set is called Broadcast Machine. It was released by an outfit called the Participatory [...]
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