studying the media ecosystem
As I peek at media developments around the world, many of the interesting experiments in broadening participation in media are taking place outside the United States, such as a BBC program that allows Web developers to use its content in non-commercial ways that build on the original fare.
The Informitv.com newsletter described the BBC initiative thus: [...]
Kevin Kelly has long been among my favorite prophets of modernity, one of that crazy gang of Northern California WELL-heads who’ve contributed so much to cyber culture. I first noticed his work in the late 1980s when he was at Whole Earth Review, and followed his words when he became a founding editor of Wired [...]
I woke up today to read a kickass column by Hollywood.com’s Diane Mermigas, who says TV networks can reinvigorate their revenues by repackaging content and delivering it to daytime audiences via desktop and mobile means. Her advice for mass media moguls applies in spades to mini media startups.
Thanks to MediaPost for steering me to Mermigas’s [...]
I am infatuated with new media but my first love is print. I was delighted when the current issue of Paid Content p ointed me to an EContent Magazine article that surveyed tools print publishers can use to distribute content over the Web.
This posting is a brief syopsis a piece by EContent writer Ron Miller, [...]
My relaxations include listening to books on tape while taking long walks. Over the weekend I was enjoying a fabulous rendition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Listening to this rich and beautiful tale made me think about the differences between oral storytelling and the linear print tradition that supplanted it. Now we have [...]
Should I puke until my stomach aches, or put on my Italian silk suit and go money-hunting? Those are the only ways I know how to react to the news, which came our earlier this week, that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation will become the new owner of teen hotspot MySpace.com, assuming that Intermix Media, which [...]
A trio of items caught my eye today, beginning with a CNet article on the perennial debate over whether patents aid or inhibit innovation, particularly in the realm of technology. Patent debates are a recurring theme in American business history, but the issue has sharpened in recent years as these 20-year-legal monopolies have been applied [...]
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