Moving beyond the article

August 28, 2009 No comments yet

Communication over instant messenger tend to be continous and casual, with ebbs and flows, rather than discrete conversations. Wikipedia has changed encyclopedias from being static and authored, to dynamic and crowdsourced, with popular pages usually containing references that are correct up the very day of viewing. Facebook claims to be the biggest media company in [...]

A newsfeed bundle for “The future of media”

August 24, 2009 1 comment

Several people have asked me recently for suggestions on good sources of news and analysis regarding the future of the media industry. So I have bundled up my favourite feeds on this topic into an OPML file, which you can import into Google Reader, or any other feed reader (see below for details).
The OPML file [...]

Digital magazine strategies

August 21, 2009 No comments yet

Dan Thornton (ex-Bauer Media) wrote an interesting post recently titled “Is any magazine company leading the way digitally?“, which looked at recent moves in the digital magazine publishing industry as it grapples with the world of online publishing. So in search of a ‘good’ digital magazine strategy, here is what the consumer magazine publishers seem [...]