ProPublica versus the Grocers
Saturday, October 18th, 2008 Posted in Citizen journalism, Ethics, Government & Politics, Newspapers, Participation, Society, Trends | No Comments »ProPublica.org aims to make up some of the ground lost to journalism by the current crisis of advertising revenues bleeding to the internet. In particular, it seeks to preserve the skills and value of investigative reporting one of the first ...
Rehab is for quitters
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Citizen journalism, Ethics, News, Newspapers, Society | No Comments »Sang Amy Winehouse. Well she didn't exactly say that, but the thought crossed my mind, when I stopped by my favourite wine shop in Cambridge called Bacchanalia. Because the owner Paul Bowles was reading an article about his shop published in ...
Punctuated Equilibrium for the Johnston Press
Friday, May 16th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Media, Newspapers, Participation, Statistics, Strategy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Its sad when you see entire industries under threat - its sad when those industries also have only themselves to blame. Sometimes however they just cant see it coming - Blindsided As Stephen Jay Gould wrote Structural or mental ...
Evolution of SMLXL
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Books, Broadcast, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Education, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Generation C, Government & Politics, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Networks, News, Newspapers, Participation, Philosophy, Politics, Retail, Science, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs, iPTV | No Comments »In 2002, I founded a company called SMLXL - short for Small Medium Large XtraLarge. Its focus was and still is - how do businesses and organisations meaningfully engage in a commercial or social agenda with their audiences. We were some ...
Who counts the audience?
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Economics, Media, Networks, Newspapers, Strategy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Google is considering bringing its TV advertising service, now being tested in the US, to the British market. It would be its first entry into so-called offline advertising this side of the Atlantic. The Google TV Ads service takes ...
Tough Love from Jeff Jarvis
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Distribution, Economics, Generation C, Media, Newspapers, Society, Strategy, Trends | No Comments »The other day, when I noted that the hedge fund breathing down the necks of the NY Times Company board and management had acquired as much stock as the Sulzberger family, I said that strategic change in the ...
Regional Press Owners Need to Get with the Beat: Intelligence
Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Media, Newspapers, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Web/Tech | No Comments »Posts Roy Greenslade referencing a Paul Bradshaw post Local news is changing - but not fast enough As the digital revolution moves forward are regional newspapers moving fast enough to appeal to online audiences? That's ...
Incubators for Media Innovation
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Darwin, Economics, Media, News, Newspapers, Quotes, Strategy, Trends | No Comments »With 110 million members and $800 million in annual revenue, MySpace has become a growth engine for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWS) media empire. Now the media mogul wants to turn the online social network into a breeding ...
NUJ on the future of journalism
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Distribution, Economics, Generation C, Media, Newspapers, Participation, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »While the NUJ welcomes the access to online media afforded by Web 2.0, we do have concerns about the effect on standards of unlimited and unedited contributions. Publishers welcome the availability of ?user-generated content? ? or citizen ...
The architecture of the 21st Century organisation
Thursday, January 24th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Mobile, Networks, Newspapers, Participation, Philosophy, Society, Strategy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | 2 Comments »Recently, I have been working with to a number of companies via our Engagement Marketing Workshops We have worked with large media companies, a large newspaper group and a mobile operator. Not all the in the UK. I was asked the question, ...
