Expertise About Why Individuated Media are already superseding Mass Media
BBC News Online won eight of 21 awards presented at the NetMedia 2003 Online Journalism Awards in Barcelona last week. Among the BBC’s awards was Lifetime Achievement to Mike Smartt, editor-in-chief of BCC News Online. Vincent Landon, science correspondent for Swiss Radio International, won the Internet Journalist of the Year award for his story of …
The authoritative Andreas Pfeiffer reports on last week’s Seybold PDF Summit in Amsterdam (which roughly coincided with Adobe’s release of Acrobat 6.0). Among Pfeiffer’s conclusions is that as Acrobat becomes more extensive and complex, “The one thing PDF is less and less, however, is a standard.”
Planet PDF has a story about Seybold’s comparison of North American and European publishers’ PDF practices.
Userland Software Founder Dave Winer explains his company’s deal with New York Times Digital, in which people who use Userland’s blogging software will have free-access to The New York Times’ paid-access online archives. We’re previously questioned the Times’ business model for this deal. Later, at the ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies Conference last week in Boston …
At the World Association of Newspaper Annual Congress in Dublin this week, the Albuquerque Journal was presented as an example of a successful paid-access newspaper Web site. Its editor Donn Friedman said that during the past two years the site has grown to 3,800 paid subscribers and its subscriber retention rate ranges between 56% and …
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That’s Jeff Jarvis‘ neologism for the bloggers and their media, a term he used yesterday during ClickZ’s Weblog Business Strategies Conference.
Two of the contentious topics throughout the two-day Jupiter Weblog Business Strategies Conference in Boston yesterday and today have been ‘Are bloggers journalists?’ and ‘Are blogs threats or opportunities for media companies?’ Rafat Ali of PaidContent.org calls this event the “Most Live-Blogged Conference on Earth”. The audience and presenters have Wi-Fi access and laptop PCs, …
Two quotes by Christopher Lydon, formerly of WGBH and American Public Radio, now at Harvard University, speaking at the ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies Conference to Boston: “weblogging is the digital equivalent of playing hockey. ‘Oh, sorry, what I just posted about you knocked out you teeth.’” “As a tradition journalist attending this conference, I feel …
On Monday and Tuesday, we’ll be at the ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies 2003 Conference & Expo in Boston, where on Tuesday morning we’ll be sitting on a panel entitled Weblogs: New Syndication Models Or Uncontrolled Platforms? Here is its description in the conference program: “No business is likely to be more affected by Weblogs than …
David Winer (Berkman Fellow at Harvard University and Former CEO of Userland Software), David Weinberger (co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto), Doc Searls (of Linux Journal and another co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto), Jason Shellen (of Blogger), Tony Perkins (Creator and Editor In Chief of AlwaysOn), Dan Bricklin (of Interland and inventor of the electronic spreadsheet), …
Is the newspaper industry determined to convince itself that charging for access to its online content is a good idea? To reach that conclusion, it seems determined to overlook all facts, data, and logic about the subject. For example, here is the schedule for the panels on the paid content subject at the World Association …
Covering the IFRA Online Trend conference earlier this month in Amsterdam, our friend Rafat Ali notes the interesting ‘Instant News’ project by Sweden’s Sdysvenska Daglbadet newspaper. It involves instant delivery of news through whatever electronic media the user wants at any pre-designated time: “A user decides, when I’m online, send me breaking news through IM. …
Covering the TV meets the Web conference in Amsterdam, theFeature notes how: “The overwhelming success of mobile voting and alert campaigns around popular television programming prove mobile is a natural extension of TV. The numbers speak volumes – literally. In Spain Operacion Triunfo, a TV talent show, made history as the country’s most ‘interactive event …
“This is a country who defeated Iraq in three weeks, but still can’t figure out SMS.” That was how Kevin Werbach described the U.S. in his keynote speech to the TV Meets the Web conference in Amsterdam.
After all the PowerPoint presentations I’ve lately seen at conferences, I feel compelled to hawk Seth Godin’s US$1.99 masterpiece Really Bad PowerPoint. It’s an electronic pamphlet (PDF) about what not to do with PowerPoint. It would be worth all the conference registration fees we’ve ever spent, if only presenters would read it. Among its common …
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