studying the media ecosystem
Here’s a shocker. Bloggers are pissed that paid writers look down their noses at hobby writers. A posting titled “The elite just can’t get used to democratic media,” found on Unmediated.org, that captures the outrage of Dan Gillmor, Terry Heaton and J.D. Lasica, and tosses a sneer at cyber-elitist Andrew Keen. The bloggers focused [...]
For a couple of years now I’ve tracked MediaBistro, a networking and job-seeking site for writers. New Yorker Laurel Touby started it about a decade ago as a gossip and drinks gathering for writers in Manhattan. She took it online in the late 1990s and got some venture cash along the way to roll it [...]
“We are moving to a Fifth Estate where everyone is able to pool their knowledge, share experience and expertise, and speak truth to power,” said Chris Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced Cheek-sent-me-hi), director of MIT’s Computing Culture Research Group.
He will lead a $5 million effort to “to test and investigate civic media in local communities.” Funding will [...]
Web designer Jakob Nielsen recently told the BBC that sites are forgetting the basic rules — makes sites simple and make things easy to find:
“Most people just want to get in, get it and get out,” said Mr Nielsen. “For them the web is not a goal in itself. It is a tool.”
According to the [...]
The Center for Media Research notes that television web sites are gaining on newspaper web sites as local online destinations. Here’s a snip:
A new 85-market study, available at the Editor & Publisher/Media Week Interactive Media Conference May 23-24 . . . (reveals that) . . . many of the top ranked local web sites are [...]
Over breakfast with a Silicon Valley software guy the other day I heard this lament: “Everybody thinks they’re a product manager,” he said, holding up one arm. “I’ve got a list of product ideas this long.”
Perhaps its a regional thing. In Los Angeles everybody has a screenplay. In New York everybody has a novel. In [...]
(photo from Fox News: www.foxnews.com/images/162544/0_22_450_baby.jpg)
Controversy continues over the Pentagon shutting off access to certain web sites for troops in Iraq. Take the Washington Post story published Friday that said:
“Most of the Web sites blocked by the Defense Department offer streaming music and video, as well as photo-sharing capabilities largely used to communicate with relatives and [...]
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