studying the media ecosystem
In the overlooked but noteworthy category, blogger J.D. Lasica, cofounder of the grassroots site OurMedia.org, has gotten a $15,000 Knight News Challenge grant to spend the next year writing about and disseminating elements of a “community media toolset: easy-to-use social media tools (plug-ins, scripts, guides and tutorials) that can expand public participation on citizen media [...]
Rich Skrenta, who runs the news aggregation site Topix , has written an interesting post (Are network effects getting weaker?) about how “social media” sites may end up being so many passing pads. Here is an excerpt:
“A place might be interesting simply because there are a lot of other people there at the moment. [...]
The Supernova conference ends today in San Francisco and though not able to attend I checked in this morning at the weblog to scan a transcript of the panel discussion (Rise of the Videonet) moderated by J.D. Lasica of Ourmedia and found this comment by Mary Hodder, founder of the video tools & community site [...]
The Kaiser Family Foundation, a health study group in California, issued a 42-page report titled “Parents, Children and Media” that was neatly summarized in a San Francisco Chronicle story by my colleague, science writer Erin Allday. For instance she wrote:
“Two-thirds of American parents are very concerned about sex and violence in the media . [...]
I’ve just returned home from four days in the redwoods of Humboldt County. On the six hour drive from Eureka to the Bay Area I stopped at a roadside rest just before the Avenue of the Giants, the scenic drive that parallels Highway 101. The sign called the local redwoods remnants of the greatest forest [...]
There is not much good news for newspaper people as suggested by the bleak title of this Poynter Institute commentary, “Newspapers at Mid-year: Even Online the News is Not So Good.”
In this report business analyst Rick Edmonds notes that:
-the growth of online revenues from newspaper web sites has slowed from 35 percent to 20 percent;
most [...]
Wharton School Professor Kevin Werbach is holding his Supernova conference in San Francsico this week and kicking off Tuesday with an open workshop that anyone can join. In scanning the speaker’s list I noticed an entry for Peter Merholz, who I’ve run into a time or two at dinners in San Francisco, and visited his [...]
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