studying the media ecosystem
What if newspapers transformed themselves into news-gathering operations? That’s one possibility that came to mind when I read a USA Today piece entitled, “Papers take a leap forward, opening up to new ideas.”
The article covers some familiar ground: shrinking print circulation, Web sites eating newspaper’s lunch, yadi yadi ya. Then it notes one media paradox: [...]
An IBM think tank has issued a provocatively titled study, “The end of TV as we know it, that predicts an audience split reaching critical mass by 2012, with some viewers happy to watch in their living room, while the rest will demand downloadable fare.
“For the next 5-7 years, there will be change on [...]
The blogosphere may be the blinkosphere. That’s the upshot of a study by Canadian researchers who found that Web users judge a site in “one twentieth of a second–less time than it takes to blink,” according to a Reuters article.
The article encapsulates a study published in the scholarly journal Behavior and Information Technology. Study author [...]
Could leverage buyouts by private investors rescue newspapers? That’a the question posed by an article in the February Columbia Journalism Review entitled “A Way Out ?”
CJR contributing editor Douglas McCollam covers some familiar ground about the financial travails of publicly-traded newspapers but adds some noteworthy details. For instance, a share in the Washington Post, which [...]
Dan Gillmor passes on lessons about the importance of community building, contributor compensation and reader needs in explaining why he is leaving his experimental Bayosphere news site to focus on the academic side of citizen media. His explanatory posting is worth reading in full, as a courtesy to the guy wrote the We the Media [...]
Google News has a new feature that tracks the viewer’s news-reading history and recommends subsequent articles based on past interests. Project leader Krishna Bharat says the new approach substitutes for previous efforts to get users to create their own personalized profiles. “Many users don’t have the time to specify exactly what they want,” Bharat writes [...]
The telecom firms that carry the bulk of Internet traffic appear to be gearing up to sell faster service for higher prices, changing the all-traffic-is-equal status quo, says Sunday’s Washington Post.
“For the first time, the companies that own the equipment that delivers the Internet to your office, cubicle, den and dorm room could, for [...]
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