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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Over at Magforum, Tony Quinn has compiled a “History of the Digital Magazine” which gives a good overview of the digital developments in the magazine industry over the last three decades. It’s certainly worth a read. Some highlights include:
1982 – Magazines start to use email and electronic mailboards
1983 – Viewdata systems deliver magazine content via [...]
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 [...]
I just got passed this article from Nieman Lab, which looks at the way in which the Guardian quickly built a system to allow a crowdsourced analysis of the recently released MP Expense Claims in the UK.
Imagine you’re a major national newspaper whose crosstown archrival has somehow obtained two million pages of explosive documents that [...]
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. [...]
