Expertise About Why Individuated Media are already superseding Mass Media
The following is no overstatement: The Internet was founded and grows upon the concept of open standards. Moreover, when the Web, a subset of the Internet, was designed, its designer’s intentions were that all content on the Web use the same standards so that all that content could be accessed by anyone on Web. Here are our reactions to an Online News discussion currently underway about what, if any, standards that media Web sites should use.
Apparently denying its readers whatever ‘enhancements’ that publishing just annually would bring, Editor & Publisher magazine has announced that it will enhance its contents by switching from weekly to monthly publication, beginning in January. As much as we enjoy being buffetted by a good PR spin, E&P‘s is simply fatuous and underscores the magazine’s decline under ownership by VNU Media. Read our analysis, which compares E&P against one of its competitors and outlines why E&P has been failing under VNU’s mismanagement.
Our presentation on The Wireless World panel yesterday at the Seybold-Romano Future of Print Conference, is available for
The Seybold San Francisco 2003 Conference this year was, in the words Wired.com, “barren and sedate.” Attendence was down to only one-third the usual at this 21st annual Seybold show, which was held not in the main Moscone Conference Center but in…
Here are the conclusions that Adobe Systems Inc.’s Principal Scientist Dov Issacs, and Rochester Institute of Technology Professor of Digital Printing Frank Romano, who more often than now have differing or opposing viewpoints, gave in the concluding session yesterday at the Seybold-Romano…
Pity our friend Jeff Jarvis, president & creative director of Advance Internet, publishers of Web sites of more than 20 major American newspapers and for all the Conde Nast magazines. The Online News Association asked Jeff to sit on a panel about…
Electronic paper will begin to steal market share from print as soon as 3 years from now, predicted Michael Kleper, the Paul and Louis Miller Distinguished Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology‘s School of Print Media. Moreover, within three years, printers…
Barnes & Noble.com today announced that, effective immediately, it will no longer sell electronic books. It told its customers that they have 90 days to download any eBooks that they’ve already purchased but not yet downloaded. “After December 9, 2003, eBook titles…
More than $25 billion in printing revenues have been lost to electronic competitors during the past three years, printing strategies consultant Keith Davidson told the Seybold-Romano Future of Print conference today. Moroever, 70% of the press industry’s disappeared during 1992-2000 due to…
Although the printing industry’s business has grown by 5% to 7% per annum for most of the past 20 years, that growth has permanently ended, according to Frank Romano, who holds the Roger K. Fawcett Distinguished Professor of Digital Publishing chair at…
This week, we’re at the Seybold 2003 Conference in San Francisco, where tomorrow we’re speaking about ‘The Wireless World’ in the Seybold-Romano Future of Print Conference track. If you’re also at Seybold this week, contact us by e-mail.
Editor & Publisher Magazine this morning asked us to comment about (a) the merger of PowerOne Media, Inc., and Employment Specialists, L.L.C., owner of Employment Wizard and Careersite, and (b) PowerOne’s acquisition of employment voice technology company , The Center for American…
We’ve long thought that European online advertising shows greater flair than its American cousins. For examples, Creative Showcase displays the best of UK online advertising. Launched in association with Media Guardian, it highlights the UK’s monthly award for the best online campaign,…
Here is something that is bound to upset publishers who are now charging for archival access to their Web pages: The WayBack Machine search engine at Brewster Kahle‘s Internet Archives project has added keyword search capabilities. This makes it much more articulate…
Because American publishers & consumers are far behind those in rest of the world when the topic is news by SMS, we heartened and not surprised to see progress in the American heartland. The reason we’re not surprised is that the news…
We’re watching with increasing alarm the European Commission’s ‘Rome II‘ proposal to harmonise laws relating to non-contractual obligations across Europe. Its ramifications for libel, defamation, and privacy laws, could have a startling effect upon European publishers, including online publishers. Under its latest…
KPN, the Dutch phone company, has licensed CNNlive, a downloadable Java application that gives KPN’s i-mode mobile phone customers access to the top 10 stories from CNN.com’s international edition.
SonyEricsson, a mobile phone manufacturer, has licensed content from Turner Broadcasting’s Cartoon Network for use to Sony Ericsson phone users around the world. Starting in September, owners of SonyEriccson phones can, if they pay a premium rate, download games, ringtones, screensavers and…
The 20% of the Welsh population who actually speak their national language finally have their own online weekly newspaper. Y-Cymro, the weekly newspaper for North Wales, has launched a Web site, an e-mail edition, and a digital edition. “We decided to introduced…
Here’s a brilliant solution by some universities that might stop their students from illegally downloading copyrighted music and thereby spare the universities ilegal peril from the copyright holders: According to Penn State University President Graham Spanier, roughly a dozen colleges and universities…
The Gannett Company’s AZCentral, Web site of the Arizona Republic newspaper and KPNX televisino in Phoenix, launched a user registration program earlier this week. The site’s Manager for Site Presentation/Audience Development Mike Coleman told Editor & Publisher magazine that it will require…
Columbia Journalism Review has launched its redesigned Web site, which this month features a story about weblogging by alternative newspapers, amateur journalists, and mainstream media, with a list of mainstream American media that weblogs.
Anne Holland‘s ContentBiz today published the first of a two-part series, Buying & Selling Online Media Properties. Today it’s ‘Your Quick Guide Part I: Seller’s Side‘. Some details: Three times annual revenue is now a good benchmark —- down from 15 to…
Americans usually think of their country as the most technosavvy nation. Few realized just how far behind other countries the U.S. is with mobile phones. e-Marketer today offers a look at just how far behind:
On Monday, the Miami Herald profiled local resident Matt Drudge, who claims to earn US$1.2 million in advertising revenue from his Web site. Its ads are sold by Intermarkets, an agency that also sells banner for The Chicago Sun-Times, The Village Voice,…
The Online News listserv, an discussion list for journalists, was today discussing reporters who carry mobile phone with cameras. We pointed that discussion to the May edition of The Digital Photojournalist, in which Evan Nisselson, a photo editor who is now a…
A ClickZ column today by David Cohen of the Universal McCann Interactive advertising agency tells how far off the target demographic many media Web sites ad campaigns hit. For examples: “One amazing thing we routinely find is the relatively low target composition…
U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell talks about how he sees the Internet fitting into the future of News Media. Staci Kramer interviews him in Online Journalism Review.
The International Newspaper Marketing Association‘s 2004 World Congress will be held at Plaza Hotel in New York City on May 16-19.
We’re pleased to see our Theory of New Media — which we originally formulated as a way to explain to publishers and broadcasters what the differences are between Traditional and New Media — is now the required reading during the first week…
Editor & Publisher magazine reports that Tom Curley, the former publisher of USAToday who is the new president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press (he’s following a Gannett senior executive career tradition), told newspaper publishers about what he calls “eAP”…
Former banking and securities lawyer turned novelist and inventor R. Douglas McPheters has patented, demonstrated, and begun commercializing holographic keyboards and keypads. That’s right, nothing to touch. Use your fingers to type on a projected image of a keyboard. Or, while driving,…
For publishers and broadcasters, what’s the cogent difference between SMS and MMS? “With SMS it’s hard to differentiate and create a premium product,” Sky Sports’ Head of Enterprises Stephen Nuttall tells New Media Age. “With MMS we can provide audio and pictures,…
BBC World Service’s commentator Bill Thompson muses about why online advertising is so unmemorable. “I suspect nobody reading this will be able to recall a single web advert or campaign. They just don’t seem to stick in the mind.”
The U.S. federal government’s and states’ new ‘Do Not Call’ anti-telemarketing registries might be disastrous for the American newspaper industry, which Editor & Publisher magazines says uses telemarketing to generate 39 percent of all new subscriptions. When you consider that the average…
After Editor & Publisher Magazine’s Steve Outing wrote a Web site column today about how newspapers need to do more to attract college-aged readers, 22 year-old online newspaper whiz-kid Adrian Holovaty replied in his own blog that what newspapers really need to…
Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper has motived than a million subscribers to pay about US$1 per month to access its wireless Web site via cell phone, Japan Media Journal reports.
The number of paid subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal Online rose 3.9% when measured June-to-June, to 671,000. However, it’s actually shrunk since its all-time high of 679,000 at the end of last year.
Samsung is marketing a celluar phone that also receives regular VHF and UHF TV broadcasts.
Nielsen/Netratings reports that Hong Kong, with more than one million of its 2.4 million Internet users on broadband connections, is the city with the highest per capital broadband use, according to a story (paid-access web site) in the South China Morning Post.…
Only two of the 10 British national dailies gained circulation during the past 12 months. The Times dropped by over 10% to 631,653. The Daily Telegraph‘s circulation fell 8.8% to 915,206. The Guardian dropped 2.94% to 387,188. And the Financial Times lost…
Folks who think that video mobile phones are a thing of the future should read this month’s story in Japan Media Review about the Miura family of Tokyo. The ‘killer app’ of video telephony might just be family time.
“Leading figures from the world’s online journalism community gathered in Barcelona this week for the ninth annual NetMedia conference on digital journalism,” Journalism.co.uk reported about last week’s NetMedia 2003 Conference in Barcelona. Around 200 journalists, students and publishing professionals from across Europe…
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…
One of the oldest vendors of digital edition technologies hasn’t strongly penetrated the American market, but hopes a reorganization announced earlier this week will change that. PEPC Worldwide of The Hague, which earlier this month changed its name to Satellite Newspapers, manufactures…
Broadsheet newspapers are large, much larger than handheld electronic devices such as Tablets PCs. So, won’t broadsheets be unreadable when shrunk onto those devices’ displays? No, what makes you assume that broadsheets will stay broad in the future? “I wouldn’t be surprised…
The South Pacific island of Niue on Monday become the world’s first nation to provide free wireless Internet access to its entire population. Located east of Tonga in the Cook Island archipelago and formerly known as Savage Island, Niue is approximately 1.5-times…
b>Adrian Holovaty shows how to receive the BBC’s RSS feeds.
The ability to block pop-up and pop-under ads, integrate with Blogger, and automatically fill out frequently used forms are three new features that Google released today in a new beta version of its popular toolbar for Internet Explorer. Users who download the…
GMTV — which promotes itself as ‘Britain’s Biggest Breakfast Show’ — has launched what NewMediaAge describes as the UK’s first commercial Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) that circumvent UK mobile network carriers’ ‘walled gardens’ business models and delivers content directly to mobile phone…