studying the media ecosystem
In May 2004 a subsidiary of the Bakersfield Californian (newspaper) launched a citizen journalism site called Northwest Voice that posts reader-generated content on its website every day. Every two weeks the best of this citizen journalism is culled into a free print edition that is dropped on every doorstep in the area. In April of [...]
The old newspaper franchise was based on delivery — metro papers could land the paper on enough doorsteps to build a mass audience. The Internet eliminates that advantage. Google News, Yahoo News, Topix, etcetera can deliver news to any computer or mobile device — and indications are that readers trust these online aggregators. How should [...]
Hollywood’s movie industry has raised hype to an art and this weekend will offer a perfect example as no effort is spared to expose every ear and eyeball to the new Pirates movie. In this light a recent Center for Media Research report summarizes the tactics of Hollywood hypesters who typically start creating the buzz [...]
I’m returning after a brief but pleasant vacation with a theme or two in mind, specifically the notion of ubiquitous media as an industrial pollutant and the need to create support systems for serious journalism lest self-governance ends up getting smothered by fluff.
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(Note: this was reposted in advance to cover a brief vacation from all things electronic.)
Tsk, tsk on Paid Content today for taking a snarky potshot at Yahoo’s Hot Zone, the series in which ( dangerously handsome) roving reporter Kevin Sites serves up pathos from world hotspots. Paid Content says this magical misery tour attracted only [...]
(Note: this was reposted in advance to cover a brief vacation from all things electronic.)
Given easy access to global networks the formula for change may be: drawing attention to ideas, building concensus around a plan and coordinating the activities of participants with different skills, motives and levels of committment. In this regard the “Economics of [...]
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