studying the media ecosystem
News reports from the recent Consumer Electronics Show had that breathless air that once typified coverage of the now-defunct Comdex trade show before the dot.com crash. As the Silicon Valley Sleuth blog observed, “As the bubble deflated, so did Comdex.” But let’s not be negative. For now the force is strong with CES and like [...]
Sick child requires attention. I’ll pick up the thought tomorrow.
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My desk was overrun with undone professional chores and everyone in the family but me was sick so I did the only thing that made sense this weekend: I spent many hours whacking weeds, pruning bushes and trees and reducing the chaos in my garden. While so doing I mulled how the economic concept of [...]
In the realm where media gossip meets media business you may have heard that the alluring Ana Marie Cox, aka Wonkette, will cease authoring her naughty political blog to write books. A Washington Post article says her successors will include lawyer and soon-to-be former federal prosecutor David Lat. He once secretly authored the Underneath Their [...]
Mass media firms, and the people who work for them, face a choice: to lose social and economic relevance or embrace the new participatory ethic of the Web and find ways to profit from it. That’s my brutal synopsis of an essay entitled “The Future is Here, But Do News Media Companies See It.”
The piece [...]
Journalism is sometimes called a “glamour” trade in the sense that it generally impresses listeners who ask “what do you do?” We should thank (or blame?) Hollywood for popularizing hard-bitten Hildy ( My Girl Friday) Johnson and “All the President’s Men.” Even after Jayson ( Mr. Make Believe) Blair and Judy, Judy, Judy, I still [...]
I’m back from what’s been a wet holiday in California. I spent a week in a cabin on the Truckee River near Lake Tahoe. The rain broke only one day, just long enough for me to hike into town. Upon returning home to the San Francisco Bay Area, I found the loquat tree in my [...]
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