studying the media ecosystem
Trapazoidal niche at Incan site in Ollantaytambo, Peru (source)
Media are mutating from mass to niche. OK. We get that. But this image plucked off the Web this captures not only the tinyness of the word but also the characterteristic that is its primary definition, “an ornamental recess in a wall.”
That recess is a subtraction from the wall and that subtractive quality is what struck me this morning when I [...]
Mashup is a Caribbean word, mateys
As the crowned heads of cyberspace met at the Consumer Electronics Show, the spectre of content piracy, aided and abetted by peer-to-peer (P2P) networking, cast a shadow of fear over the event.
“The volume of P2P which is dominated by illegal, uncopyrighted material is overwhelming and that clearly should not be an acceptable continuing status,” the general counsel of [...]
The media watchword for kids, should be wonder, for grownups, wariness
A recent posting on media literacy drew a comment from Nick Pernisco, a communications instructor at Santa Monica college, who wrote:
“What media literacy can do to help the average person is to interpret other people’s ideas, as well as to formulate and sell your own ideas. If you understand [...]
Does web culture create a virtuous cycle?
Web-enabled smart phones or PDAs are the emerging platform for digital culture, building on the foundation laid down by the desktop and notebook PC. With no stake in these legacy technologies, Nokia has been at the forefront of discerning the habits of the young mobile tech consumers who are leading this wave of wireless adoption. In December Nokia summarized [...]
MiniMediaGuy gets egg on face — again!
With such pride and fanfare I announced on Dec 10 that I had severed my land connection to broadband in favor of the Verizon EV-DO service that dials into some sort of cellular broadband service. I was excited because I paid only the sales tax on four $170 modems [...]
Improvements to the Freedom of Information Act have become law but won’t take effect until January 2009.FOIA was passed in 1974 after the Watergate scandal (see Wikipedia). It sets forth rules for obtaining reports and correspondence from a variety of federal agencies. FOIA had been significantly weakened over time and the new OPEN Government Act [...]
The Center for Media Research republished a recent forecast by the GroupM division of WPP that says the Beijing Olympics and U.S. presidential elections will help offset to slow the erosion of broadcast revenues in 2008. If there was any relief in the GroupM forecast for newspapers I missed it. This international report:
“identified television and the internet as the primary engines of global ad growth [...]
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