Mark Potts asks “What would you do if you ran a newspaper?,” and comes up with 10 items. Again and again as this question is asked online, the same answers are coming up. Is it the echo chamber of the web, or have newspapers been doing the same thing for so long, that they are… Continue reading 10 Ways to Fix Newspapers
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The New Internet Bubble: A Company for Every Feature
I was reading Techcrunch this morning, and thinking about the nature of Internet business at this point in time. The lead story as I write this is “Yahoo! Acquires Contest Site Bix.” The intro says a lot: “Online karaoke and contest site Bix has signed an agreement to be acquired by Yahoo! Bix CEO Mike… Continue reading The New Internet Bubble: A Company for Every Feature
The New Internet Bubble
Last week was the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, and it seemed to leave many attendies unimpressed. Dan Farber from ZDnet was left hungry for more innovation: “Many people I talked to identified a lack of big innovations, little companies with features but not products, too many products crowding the same space, too many… Continue reading The New Internet Bubble
Adding Context and Meaning to Content: Web 3.0
The New York Times looks at the next phase for the web: “In contrast, the Holy Grail for developers of the semantic Web is to build a system that can give a reasonable and complete response to a simple question like: “I’m looking for a warm place to vacation and I have a budget of… Continue reading Adding Context and Meaning to Content: Web 3.0
The Value of the Editor in a Social Media World
Time magazine is making some changes. Time’s publisher, Edward R. McCarrick descibes the moves this way: “We’re doing something really bold and direct, which is throwing down the gauntlet.” Jeff Jarvis is, of course, not enthusiastic about these changes at the magazine. He states: “I think that general-interest magazines may well be fated to fade… Continue reading The Value of the Editor in a Social Media World
Why the Internet is Good for Traditional Media
BusinessWeek has a message for traditional media companies: “…we believe Internet companies that enable and promote revenue generation from their content should be viewed as critical allies of, not necessarily competitors to, traditional media companies.” Om Malik shows us the sheer size of social networks, with MySpace alone generating 38 billion page views last month… Continue reading Why the Internet is Good for Traditional Media
Traditional Media in Trouble – Innovation Injection Needed
Editor & Publisher looks at how newspapers dropped the ball (and Google picked it up): “…as newspapers cede a portion of their ad revenue for Google to act as a middleman, there should be a lesson learned: whatever the “next thing” is, newspaper companies should figure it out and get on it right now, before… Continue reading Traditional Media in Trouble – Innovation Injection Needed
Print’s Downfall “One of the Best Opportunities in Business Today”
Jason Calacanis shares some words about the state of the newspaper industry: “…the fact that folks can’t figure out the obvious place for print in this world is just shocking… This is one of the best opportunities in business today…” His only hint at what the solution might be… “it’s the message NOT the medium… Continue reading Print’s Downfall “One of the Best Opportunities in Business Today”
Launch of a News Platform: Will it Shake Things Up?
PaidContent is reporting on the upcoming launch of Daylife: “The mission is to gather and organize news in ways that are most relevant to the user. That could be by event, topic, author, geography or other factors. Source pages that show what a journalist writes about or who is quoted are part of the mix.”… Continue reading Launch of a News Platform: Will it Shake Things Up?
Does the Future of News & Journalism Rely on “Fun”?
Robert Scoble has been reviewing his news reading habits with RSS feeds, concluding: “I wasn’t reading as many feeds lately because it just wasn’t fun.” Is this the metric that media companies and journalists are missing when they question the future of the news industry, and the tactics on dealing with massive competition from new,… Continue reading Does the Future of News & Journalism Rely on “Fun”?