About the Dying Days of Old Media
I wanted to come back to that debate about standards and about vested interests. Old media is dying out for a simple reason. No, not necessarily because blogs are great and technology is outpacing all of us. The reason is about a decade ago old media organisations stopped paying media professionals a living wage.
It is […]
Blogging for Who?
So a few words about who this blog is aimed at. It will evolve but my first priority is to understand changes in the visual media as they effect people like me, a journalist who needs to make a living from writing but who also believes that the public debate, the dialogue, is stronger than […]
It’s About Truth
Truth took a long holiday over the past thirty years and it's amazing right now to see truth moving up so many different agendas at the same time.
What a coincidence that the means of communication have been democratised at the same time politicians have become irredeemably dishonest (some coincidence!). The most cosntructive form of communication is one […]
PR, the Brand and IPTV
Ad experts have been making much of how brands have to move beyond advertising and into co-creating content. IP TV will be a step backwards initially - because the brand agencies still have a TV centric focus.When brand managers realise that the multitude of special interest channels represent a great way to support content and people and engage […]
Narrowstep Accelerates Earnings
Narrowstep announced recently that earnings had almost doubled over the past twelve months. The company is still losing money but less of it. Annual revenue in the April 2006 announcment included $1.5 million from narrowcasting and related activities, compared with $520,000 for fiscal 2005, an increase of 288 percent.
This is how Narrowstep describes itself.
The Narrowstep […]
Akimbo Opens Up
I promised yesterday to write about Akimbo, as one of a number of profiles upcoming. Curious, just thinking back to those comments about journalists and PR, when I e-mail people using my journalist hat I get ready responses. When I e-mail saying I want info for the blog there’s a tendency to ignore me. That […]
Journalists, PR and Standards
I’ve been following the debate in the UK about journalistic standards, blogging and PR. It has been enlivened by two events. The We Media Conference - it took a hammering from Suw Charman on her Strange Attractor blog, and the debate between John Lloyd, FT Magazine editor, and others on the relationship between PR and […]
Browsing the IP TV World
There’s no directory to all those new channels out there and soon the audio-visual space on the World Wide Web will be crowded with videoblogs. Still there’s time to find a few favourites.
Here’s one IP TV service that is working well in the United States. Akimbo has been running for about eighteen months and one […]
Selling Programmes/ Missing Ads
This is from the Guardian, UK reporting a story from the Wall St Journal….
“The Fox network is to sell episodes of hit drama 24 via MySpace, the News Corporation-owned social networking website. From next week, users of MySpace will be able to buy episodes from the first two series of the cult thriller at […]
The BBC Shouldn’t Need to Ask
What is it about big media organisations that they can’t do democracy? A recent conference in London called We Media (it was pretentously styled a Global Forum) in part organised by the BBC was designed to allow big media companies to understand better how democratised media works.
The next day the BBC held an internal […]