studying the media ecosystem
Funny how the mind works in a hyperlinked Web. One moment we’re searching for this, then we trip across that, and suddenly a distraction becomes a fascination. It was just such a train of … can I even say thought … that led me to a brief essay that expressed the tension many of [...]
We hear a lot these days about citizen journalism, people taking media into their own hands to inform and entertain one another or to express themselves. What sorts of training will citizen journalists require and where will they get it? I’ve been thinking about that in light of the conference that will be held in [...]
I have no advertising in this blog but I am trying to learn more about it. Today I’ll focus on a few bits about contextual advertising — placing ads alongside relevant words (dog food ads near dog story.) An article in Online Journalism Review notes that contextual ads sometimes create embarrassing matches, like the massage [...]
I have an early breakfast with a mentor and friend this morning, and another tight deadline before then. But let me take a few minutes to reflect on what I’ve been doing since I began this blog at New Years and some of what I’ve learned since then.
Mini media is what I call the creative [...]
The doings of Big TV have little bearing on mini media dreamers like me but there’s so much ferment in television that I can’t resist a few comments, starting with CBS’s plan to create the Public Eye, a sort of ombudsman blog, as part of its re-launch CBSNews.com.
Verne Ververs, who will play that internal [...]
Here’s a non-shocker: 18-24 year olds are most influenced by new media, according to BIGresearch. The Ohio-based survey firm based its finding of age-related media use on 14,000 interviews. Taking a sample that size allows BIG to make statistically significant observation on sub-groups, by age, inside the overall sample. BIG’s press release summarizes the findings. [...]
Eric Raymond is the author of “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” the 1997 essay that Wikipedia calls “the manifesto of the open source movement.” Today I think media need an open source revolution — a sharing of techniques in the public domain — to build a marketplace for small-scale content producers. But how can open [...]
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