studying the media ecosystem
More money is flowing into local search, and not all of it to newspaper sites. Attend a one-day conference on archiving video content ( in Berkeley). And the IPTV vendor in my own backyard that I never knew was there. That’s today’s radio-like rundown in mini media land.
MediaPost pointed me to Borrell Associates, a [...]
I am continually reminded of the old pictures of television announcers talking into microphones, as if they were doing radio with pictures. In that spirit consider The State of Play, a conference that will be held at New York University and which will look at what may be the next evolution of media — virtual [...]
My Sunday newspaper carried two items of note, one an in-depth look at South Korea’s OhmyNews, and the other a summary of how Chinese authorities have pressured tech companies to block Internet access to “offensive” topics.
By way of disclosure, both articles were published in the San Francisco Chronicle where I am a business reporter. [...]
Has the whole world gone mini? That’s what I wondered when SBC dropped its new phone books on my porch. Three arrived in one bag: a honking thick yellow pages for Oakland and vicinity, a slimmer white pages and a third “Oakland Mini” yellow pages. Roughly the size of trade paperback book, the Mini targets [...]
I have one more brief installment in this week’s series on the U.S. Census Bureau’s Economic Census data for various sub-sectors of the media industry. Today I will point to a site that suggests how business people can use this authoritative government data, and also link to a one-stop shop that provides useful metrics for [...]
Yesterday I began to analyze the most recent Economic Census data regarding the media industry, which is broken into 13 sub-sectors. Today I will continue that exercise with a quick look at metrics for the newspaper industry, which saw meager revenue growth, a slight decline in headcount and somewhat improved productivity, as measured by revenues [...]
For months I’ve been toting around printouts of the most recent Economic Census data for the Information industry, a category that includes various forms of old and new media. During a long journey I finally got around to making sense of the media sub-sector entitled “Internet Publishing and Broadcasting.”
I explained a bit about the Economic [...]
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