As Google expands their online video business, they are in negotiations with content providers such as Dow Jones & Company, Condé Nast, Sony BMG Music Entertainment on syndication deals. “Google’s broad plan to bundle media content with ads depends on participation from media companies. On the one hand, Google’s network will bring more visibility of… Continue reading Google, the Media Company?
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How the Audience Has Changed
More and more, people are consuming media differently, and have radically re-engineered how they communicate with the world. Jim Courtney of Skype Journal takes a look at our always on” culture. For media companies, this is very telling of how the lives of your audience has changed. Do people read less print media because of… Continue reading How the Audience Has Changed
What is Ownership? A Debate for Media Companies to Watch
Apple CEO Steve Jobs released an open letter to the music industry, asking for the demise of Digital Rights Management, or DRM. Now, DRM is the layer of security that music publishers add to digital songs they sell online, to protect it from being copied a million times, and controlling how a consumer uses it.… Continue reading What is Ownership? A Debate for Media Companies to Watch
The Internet as LEGO’s. Yahoo! Launches Pipes
Yahoo! has released Pipes, which lets you “remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment.” Tim O’Reilly describes Pipes this way: “They allow developers to use two websites in a way that their creators didn’t quite intend, which extends them and makes them more useful. But mashups have generally been limited… Continue reading The Internet as LEGO’s. Yahoo! Launches Pipes
Idea Discovery: Where is the Cutting Edge?
Fred Wilson has been thinking about radio’s relevance on the music scene. He still likes radio, but feels that due to the web, the paradigm has flipped. Instead of the place that you discover new music – where music breaks – it is the end of the road, in a sense. You end up on… Continue reading Idea Discovery: Where is the Cutting Edge?
Mainstream Media is not an Island
Read/Write Web gives us a quick look at mainstream media’s adoption of Web 2.0 elements, such as including links to Digg and del.icio.us in their articles: “It appears that we are nearing a tipping point for the mass adoption of prominent web 2.0 services, like digg and del.icio.us. Endorsement by mainstream media opens these services… Continue reading Mainstream Media is not an Island
Where Do Blogs End?
Traditinal media is moving online. Blogs and individual content producers are gaining increasing credibility in the media landscape. Ryan Block, managing editor of Engadget asks this question: Is Engadget still a blog. His answers, and those of his readers, illustrate the evolving nature of online publishing.
Can Bloggers Compete with Established News Sources?
Robert Scoble started off a bit of a debate online when he lashed out at some prominent blogs for not linking to his content, and to other bloggers on the web. “It’s interesting how everyone links to the New York Times, who of course doesn’t link to blogs, but very few bloggers will link to… Continue reading Can Bloggers Compete with Established News Sources?
Communal, Specialized, and Personalized Experience in Media
Scott Karp askes, “Is News A Fundamentally Shared, Social Experience?” His theory: “Despite all the hype about the “user in control,” purely personalized news may be too much control, a slippery slope that leads to solipsism. The proverbial “water cooler” is symbolic of our fundamental need to share the news, to validate our experiences by… Continue reading Communal, Specialized, and Personalized Experience in Media
The iPhone Effect
Last week I talked about Apple. As you probably know, they announced the iPhone this week. I want to look at this topic in two ways – both which affect media and journalism. Mobile Web and Local Search The mobile web will not just change how we get information, it will change the way we… Continue reading The iPhone Effect