Posted in media on Mar 2nd, 2008
I took this photo last night at a friend’s 40th birthday party. It certainly underscores the incredible power of traditional media consumption - there is something mesmerizing about HD TV.
However, more and more, I am seeing media consumption being turned into media interaction. Social media is creeping into our lives, as we await the social […]
Posted in media, newspapers, magazines, B2B on Feb 24th, 2008
Rolling Stone has an article profiling record producer Clive Davis, titled “The Last Record Man.” (no link because its not on their website.) Clive characterizes the current state of the music industry:
“You get rich in this economy by finding a way to charge for what has already been free. Water. TV. Radio. But the music […]
This week, I want to take another look at lessons we can learn from changes in the music industry. So sit back, relax, and get ready to rock…
If there is one single theme that runs through all the changes I am about to discuss it is this: discerning “just good enough” from truly “high quality.” […]
Posted in print, media, content, newspapers, magazines, RSS, books, websites, email, twitter on Jan 9th, 2008
Every day, media is thrust into my life:
Two newspapers on the driveway.
Magazines in the mailbox… more than 10 subscriptions.
RSS feeds in my RSS reader… about 100 subscriptions.
This is before I look at my Blackberry, open Instant Messenger, surf a single website, think about the book on my nightstand, or even fathom the idea of watching […]
Posted in media, newspapers, magazines on Jan 5th, 2008
On a recent outing in New York City, I couldn’t help but notice three buildings in particular, each representing a publishing giant.
The New York Times building is brand new, the Hearst Tower is a new building built on top of the old one, and the McGraw-Hill building (their former headquarters) is vintage art deco.
Standing in […]
Posted in media, newspapers, magazines, innovation, journalism on Dec 28th, 2007
There are lots of 2007 media industry recaps online, I will try to recap them all!
Online Journalism Review: “Five Lessons from 2007.”
Breaking news blogs take off, as does distribution of content via widgets. The media are still figuring out how to best leverage user-generated content.
Folio magazine: “2007: The Year in Magazines.”
Some magazines fold, some titles […]
Posted in media on Dec 13th, 2007
Adam Tinworth reports from the Le Web 3 conference in Paris. He shares an interesting perspective from one of the speakers, June Cohen:
“We think new media is new,” she said. And it is. “But old media is astonishingly new in the whole of human history.”
Using the clock metaphor for human existence, “old media” appears about […]
Posted in advertising, media on Dec 2nd, 2007
It seems that media companies may be hurting their online growth by treating it as second fiddle to their traditional revenue streams:
“Local online ad revenues have shown impressive growth lately, but a new report by Borrell Associates suggests that those gains would have been more substantial if it hadn’t been held back by bundling traditional […]
BBC News has shaken up their operations to better leverage all media:
“… today is a very big day for BBC News which has now been re-organised in a fully multimedia fashion… up until today the editorial decisions have been taken separately in three different departments – Radio News, News Interactive and TV News. Now those […]
Fortune looks at why Arianna Huffington may have created the model for what media companies of the future will look like:
“Some pundits have criticized the site for not paying its blogging contributors, or at least have wondered if they will stick around if Huffington and her colleagues get rich on their work. The counterargument is […]
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