studying the media ecosystem
I attended a reception last week at which the hosts provided music chosen by live disc jockeys. When I wandered to the back of the room to see who was playing what I was astonished to see a dual turntable spinning real vinyl record albums. I asked the disc jockey — who turned out to [...]
I work in newspapers, an industry in which print revenues remain flat while online revenues grow. But is that really the case? The other day I picked up two successive print copies of the Metro, a weekly freebie, at a coffee shop in Silicon Valley. Both issues were fat, fat, fat with ads. The August [...]
The University of Maryland’s J-Lab has identified seven websites that “use basic technology to add value to the process of journalism.” The J-Lab press release will tell you more about the nature of the award but a quick scan of the seven winning sites offers more in the way of ideas and inspiration.
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A new controversy has arisen about whether user-generated websites such as Digg should pay top contributors. You can read the on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand version in an article by Mark ( MediaShift) Glaser. But the answer is clear. Contributors should be compensated by any web site that seeks to make money. To do otherwise is to exploit [...]
It’s too hot to think and terribly inconvenient to imagine that global warming might be to blame, so let me use the minimum wattage of brainpower and point to a series of snippets that interest me, beginning with this suggestion that Apple Computer if gearing up to challenge Audible in the books-for-ears market. And now [...]
The notion of using the Web as the common platform where many citizens can perform bit and pieces of some larger public task has found new support from the libertarian Cato Institute. With an eye toward giving citizens a way to monitor the sprawling federal budget, Cato issued a paper supporting a proposed Senate bill [...]
We live in an era of short attention spans in which the winners are those who create powerful brands. One of the best ways to use this understanding at personal level may be through projecting your voice — literally — via a podcast. I was reminded of this by an e-mail from OutstandingWomenSpeakers.com that featured [...]
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