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The online book: team authors, and its never finished

The online book: team authors, and its never finished | csmonitor.com

A cutting-edge online author in New York, Mr. Wark invites perfect strangers to interrupt his ideas with their own scribbling in the digital margins.If they make a good point, Wark amends his book. In the spring, the evolving text will be published on paper, weaving in the Web comments. Then, the author plans the ultimate surrender: Anyone will be allowed into the online version to dabble and delete at will.

Wark may be offering a glimpse into the future, where books - particularly nonfiction - become destinations for discussion rather than dog-eared possessions, and authors take on a more gregarious role akin to Oprah Winfrey or Terry Gross.

Very cool. Sort of wikis on steroids, but will it take hold?

20 October, 2006 | No comments

One if By Land Two if By Blog

One if By Land Two if By Blog

Google has come out swinging, defending their stance in the DOJ search data matter.However, they did not issue a press release. Rather they went with a blog post by Nicole Wong, Associate General Counsel.

Now that is pretty interesting. If anyone has any ideas how one might measure the number of press releases let me know. I would be interested in looking into this question.

21 February, 2006 | No comments

Bloggers give view of House Web hearing

Chicago Tribune | Bloggers give view of House Web hearing

Allowing bloggers in “challenges the traditional views about what constitutes `the media,’” said Sam Stratman, communications director for Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill). Hyde is chairman of the International Relations Committee, which held the hearing.

Bloggers continue to challenge “traditional media” and in this instance take a huge step forward.

17 February, 2006 | No comments

Internet Advertising Gains at Newspapers’ Expense

Internet Advertising Gains at Newspapers’ Expense - New York Times

“The Internet’s relevance in the 18-30 year age group has reached critical mass and is completely reconfiguring how car companies need to reach out to first-time buyers,” said Lonnie Miller, managing director for the Polk Center for Automotive Studies. “Generation Y is tuning out traditional advertising, and watching what they want, when they want.”

Wow, it looks like newspapers have more than just blogs to worry about.

2 February, 2006 | No comments

NYTimes Sunday Business or Bloggers. Who has higher standards ?

NYTimes Sunday Business or Bloggers. Who has higher standards ? - Blog Maverick - www.blogmaverick.com _

Given the admitted rush job by Randall Stross for the Sunday NY Times Business column that I discussed in my last blog entry, along with my previous experiences with that paper, i dont think it is preposterous any longer.

Great post and a valid question. I think as a rule newspapers should have higher standards because they have stakeholders that pay them to get the facts straight. But as we have seen the media is clearly biased so there is no longer a need to get the facts straight, just aligned with the left or right biad. But the newspapers want us to believe they are unbiased and people don’t believe them. That’s what makes blogs great. In one place you can get someone’s thoughts on issues. So when I read Blog Maverick I expect to get Mark Cuban’s thoughts and if it is in relationship to business or technology those are pretty solid thoughts as he is an expert in those fields. The great thing about his Blog is he tells you what he thinks and accepts it as that. You can’t find that in a newspaper. Newspapers are paid to be right….or left.

Check out BlogMaverick for other people’s thoughts as well.

21 December, 2005 | No comments

The Globe’s future in WiFi

The Globe’s future in WiFi - The Boston Globe

The website, which works only inside the station, was created and sponsored by the Globe; it is one of several high-tech projects intended to demonstrate that even as the newspaper loses circulation, it is searching hard for ways to hold on to readers.

Good look at how newspapers are trying to adapt to the changing digital stakeholder model. Some might say too little too late, but I think there’s still time. They still have enough people’s attention.

5 December, 2005 | No comments

Craig$list.com

sfweekly.com | News & Features | Feature | Craig$list.com | 2005-11-30

The much-loved Web site is taking millions from Bay Area newspapers and causing layoffs that adversely affect coverage. And its founder’s well-intentioned support of citizen journalism has a slim chance of fixing the problem.

Good article which ties in with the Instapundit article, below, examining how Craigs list is changing traditional stakeholder relations for newspapers and the MSM.

2 December, 2005 | No comments

Ouch

Instapundit.com -

Not all old media folks are that dumb. I guest-taught a journalism class on Tuesday with Bob Benz, who runs Scripps’ web operation. He seemed quite aware of the problems newspapers face — which he characterized as more organizational and cultural than technological — and had some good thoughts about what to do with them. I really don’t think that newspapers will die as a result of the web. Well, except for the ones that waste their energies on whining.

Great post over at Instapundit examining the irony of the mainstream media complaining of their demise as front page stories on their own publications. Some pretty interesting insights.

I wonder if the same thing could be attributed to the recording industry as well? There are similarities, but their are differences. However the problem is the same. It is not technology, it is culture.

2 December, 2005 | No comments

A one-stop shop for the ‘best’ blogs

A one-stop shop for the ‘best’ blogs | csmonitor.com

No one questions that the news and information media landscape is on shifting ground. Newspaper circulation is falling while audiences for Internet weblogs - the online journals called blogs for short - are growing rapidly. The Pew Internet & American Life Project estimates that more than a quarter of Internet users read blogs.

The article goes on to explain how Pajama’s Media intends to pool bloggers to make advertising more attractive, but it also points out that the business model has more than its share of detractors.

30 November, 2005 | No comments

Flurry of recent deals show how blogs can profit

Flurry of recent deals show how blogs can profit - Nov. 23, 2005

It can’t be said anymore that blogging isn’t a business. The problem now may be that blogging has too many business models to choose from.

An interesting article on Blogging models. Although it focuses on the technology providers and not the content providers.

29 November, 2005 | No comments

Yahoo to run Gawker blogs

FT.com / By industry / Media & internet - Yahoo to run Gawker blogs

Yahoo, one of the largest internet portals, on Wednesday announced an agreement to publish five weblogs from Gawker Media in a bid to attract younger readers to its site and to hold their attention for longer.

Another step in increasing the viability of the medium.

17 November, 2005 | No comments

Communicators Still Tiptoeing Around Blogs

Communicators Still Tiptoeing Around Blogs

Though professional communicators are aware of the weblog boom, the majority still seem reluctant to embrace the medium amid fears of the inherent lack of control of information that comes with it, according to a recent poll.

Interesting, blogs have a “lack of control”. I suspect the reason most of us are tired of traditional news sites is that they have too much control. This one leans right and that one leans left. At least when you read a blog they are not proposing that they are bing unbiased and objective like news sites want us to believe. So knowing that there is no control is actually a control in itself.

16 November, 2005 | No comments

Website to blend journalism with blogs

USATODAY.com - Website to blend journalism with blogs

NEW YORK — A media website scheduled to debut Wednesday will seek to blend traditional journalism with the freeform commentary developed through the emerging Web format known as blogs.

The change continues

16 November, 2005 | No comments

Watch out! AOL, Warner Bros. partner for free Web TV

Watch out! AOL, Warner Bros. partner for free Web TV - Nov. 14, 2005

In its first year, in an exclusive deal, the advertising-supported service, In2TV, will feature approximately 3,400 hours of programming from 4,800 episodes spanning 100 series of Warner Bros.-produced shows from the past.

IMHO this deal has serious potential. While some would say people want the current stuff reality is today’s generation has an appreciation for everything. Two examples, my nephews who were over this past week spent more time playing with a birthday gift of mine (an series of old video games - Pacman etc.) instead of my son’s Game Cube. Also one weekend I had to get on my daughter for watching the Adam’s Family all weekend!

This deal will change digital stakeholder relations and TV needs to watch out…

14 November, 2005 | No comments

A Google News alternative with ambition

Christian Science Monitor Blog | ScitechBlog Archive October, 2005

The site presents an interface that loosely resembles Google News, but when a visitor clicks a news story, rather than sending readers away from its site, Inform opens the link in the same window, surrounding it with useful tools. Users can (after a little time spent with the tutorial) find related content, track stories or people, and create their own “discovery paths” to delve into subjects of interest. Visitors can even create an account that saves their preferences and keeps them up to date on their favorite segments of the news. Perhaps the most attractive element of the site is its all-in-one feel; it’s as if someone has endowed all online news sources with the features of the best news websites.

Googlization….I like it. I wish I had thought of it. It is great to read about companies that have not given up on innovating, just because Google and MS know what’s best for us

20 October, 2005 | No comments

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