studying the media ecosystem
In 16 years as a daily newspaper reporter I’ve covered some mind-expanding stories including the race to map the human genome which revealed nothing so much as our stunning ignorance of the baffling complexity of the smallest, dumbest purposeful thing in the universe, the organic macromolecule.
Molecules, you will recall, are strings of atoms. Macromolecules are [...]
The market research firm Borrell Associates predicts today that online display advertising and search advertising are both poised to peak in a few years. The report, excerpted in Paid Content, says:
“The real growth story in internet marketing expenditures is going to be increasingly focused on online promotions.”
That neatly corroborates the notion I advanced yesterday [...]
One of my daily newspaper colleagues wrote a story Sunday whose headline should serve as a wake up call to the beleaguered media industry: “Dollar’s fall forces new standard of frugality.” It’s a good piece that notes what may seem obvious — the probable recession, the mortgage bust, the persistent trade deficit and the sudden [...]
Next week I will be among the 200 or so people who will meet in Silicon Valley for the New Tools 2008 conference meant to foster “innovation, democracy and a new ecology of news.”
My first assignment for that event is to introduce fellow participant Tom Stites, who interviewed me as well. This is a great [...]
Shield law divides journalists, bloggers? by Douglas Millison
The Justice Department is lobbying the U.S. Senate to amend a proposed reporters shield law to exclude bloggers from the limited protections that it would give paid reporters against the forced disclosure of confidential sources. The House passed a national shield law last fall in reaction to the [...]
New media asks the audience
Online Journalism Review is trying to gather “examples of journalists and news organizations using online crowdsourcing in their news reporting.”
Crowdsourcing is the term coined by Wired Magazine to describe the use of interactive media to harvest feedback from readers, viewers, customers or client — then sift or winnow these incoming [...]
Sea of Faces by Livefunky and Jessica Torrant
Jim Manzi of Lotus fame has a new interest in the reinvention of media. Below are excerpts from an an essay, (The End of the Literary Industrial Complex) that he published at the Boston startup Gather.com. In the essay Manzi both laments and celebrates the fracturing of [...]
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