studying the media ecosystem
MiniMediaGuy: Something to say, or just the need to say something?
This blog debuted in January 2005 with a purpose in mind: to organize media producers into legal cooperatives to help them get better pay for creating content just as farmers have banded together to sell fruits, nuts and grains.
Alas, this idea has gathered no support. The Knight 21st Century Challenge and J-Lab, have rejected my pleas for grants. That is [...]
Visits to consumer sites up 10 percent overall as some see traffic soar: why?
A Dec. 11 report from the web-tracking site comScore says traffic at consumer packaged goods CPG) sites rose 10 percent in 2007 compared to the same period a year earlier. The survey suggests that “the average visitor made 3.9 visits to sites within the CPG category, viewing 10.5 pages per visit, [...]
Part Four: Dreams or delusions trump drifting or despair
(Editor’s note: This is the final of four postings that originally appeared in November 2006 as a parable of youthful folly. If you’ve only just stumbled upon this installment part one appeared on Christmas Day. It tells how I moved to the Northern Californian town of Eureka to start a community newspaper only to lose my nerve and open a typesetting [...]
Part Three: My Big Fat Greek wedding.
(Editor’s note: This is the third of four postings that originally appeared in November 2006 as a parable of youthful folly. If you’ve just stumbled upon this posting, part one appeared on Christmas Day. It tells how I moved to the Northern Californian town of Eureka to start a community newspaper only to lose my nerve and open a typesetting shop [...]
Part Two: Meet Rama Bhagwan.
(Editor’s note: This is the second of four postings that originally appeared in November 2006 as a parable of youthful folly. Yesterday I explained how I moved to the Northern Californian town of Eureka to start a community newspaper, only to realize my that I knew next to nothing about my adopted community. I ended that chapter with the decision to [...]
Part One: Plans go awry.
(Editor’s note: This posting originally appeared in November 2006. I rerun it here with only spellling fixes and minor changes. I hope you emjoy this true parable of folly. Merry Christmas!)
For some time I’ve been pontificating about new media from the relative security of a day job. It occurs to me that the reasonable [...]
If the proposed federal shield were already law, Steve Job (r)could have used the courts, not cash, to silence the blogger Nick Ciarell (l).
After a three-year legal fight Apple has silenced a product-rumor web site called Think Secret. A Wired News article suggests that the site’s founder, 22-year-old Harvard student Nick Ciarelli, sold the site to Apple, which shut it down. [...]
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