I recently came across this video again – and thought it was worth sharing. It is a great way of explaining some of the massive changes that are sweeping through the information economy. It finishes with a very pertinent question: are we ready? Enjoy!
We have been thinking and experimenting a lot recently with news delivery, and I’ve come to the conclusion that Wikipedia has already solved many of the issues of news delivery. Ok, it wouldn’t pass the criteria of the NYT’s design department, but it provides a working reference for how we should look at news interfaces.
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In an increasingly fragmented media landscape, the opportunities for brands to connect with their market are endless.
The old model, where magazines, newspapers and TV channels provided a marketplace for brands to inform and persuade consumers is failing. It still has legs, because there is nothing that yet compares to the mass-market impact of buying a [...]
A huge amount has been said about Google’s latest move in its love-hate relationship with content publishers. There is no need to repeat that all here, so if you haven’t already, see the following:
Paidcontent with a good overview of the product.
Techspheres with a somewhat overblown reaction about how it will kill the newspaper industry.
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Its a sad story, but one we must learn from. Businessweek was founded in 1929, and by the 1990’s was seeing a circulation of more than 1 million people. It used to carry more advertising pages than any other US magazine (up to 6000 pages in 2000), and was a profitable, valuable, and well-regarded publishing [...]
Having been in startups for 5 years, and with lots of friends running small, disruptive tech businesses, I tend to find most interesting media developments to come from these companies. So I was very impressed when I was browsing the NYT today and saw on the sidebar a list of articles that had been chosen [...]
After the secretive meeting of newspaper executives a few weeks ago, at which the economic future of the industry was discussed in depth (see my thoughts here), there has been a splurge of coverage about the companies that are positioning themselves as the newspapers’ saviour.
The Guardian recently reviewed the startup ecosystem that is forming around [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote a review of the best iPhone apps that magazines had produced. You can read it here. Some of these apps were paid, some free with advertising included, and some just me-too apps offering a basic rendering of the publishers RSS feed.
If you follow iPhone news, you will have heard [...]
The decline of print media has been explored endlessly. Everyone is agreed that the traditional business model is broken. And most people agree that there is no silver bullet which will solve the problems facing publishers in this new environment.
To summarise the new reality:
Print circulation is declining across the board, and in many cases will [...]
Business publications have traditionally been very good at building up quality databases about their readership. The closed circulation approach has allowed them to target content and advertising very specifically to readers. When selling additional resources (such as market reports) they have always captured extensive additional data, enabling very effective lead generation and sponsored content insertions. [...]
