And New Old Media Opportunities Are a Booming

“Portfolio will be exhaustively reported, literary and slick-–a business magazine for people who don’t like to read business magazines.” That’s from the American Journalism Review talking about Conde Nast’s new business magazine Portfolio. I think there’s much more scope - a magazine that embraces people who are changing their lifestyles (which includes many of us), […]

TV Cheats

There’s a scandal bubbling up over British television companies cheating their viewers and I think itraises issues beyond probity.
The scandal - the BBC and ITV companies including Channel 4 have used telephone phone-in competitions in unscrupulous ways, having viewers phone in to pre-recorded programmes, overcharging on call charges, and even faking the winner, in one […]

Competition Sparks Copyright Suits

Just noticed that the Viacom $1 billion suit against YouTube comes as Viacom opted for Joost as a distribution partner.
I was talking recently with the guys at Joost competitor Babelgum who told me they are finding extreme difficulty getting rights clearances for whole shows - the rights legacy for different segments, interviews, archive footage, and […]

Newspaper TV

And following on from TV bloggers, this from guardianunlimited:
“Lycos.co.uk (yep, it is still running) has introduced a video portal set up by ROO, who also run the video service for Times Online and various others. The channel will include video content from Lycos sites across Europe as well as ROO’s library of news, sports, music, […]

TV Bloggers

Following on from Shel Israel’s observation that global media companies are intent on integrating blogs, bloggers and user content (of course you might say) I was interested to see the BBC now has a user generated programme on its News 24 service and has begun integrating bloggers into its new media services, beginning with its […]

An Equal Share of Anger and Amusement

Today started writing about food ethics, gave up with a headache and went in search of…. Went in search. Went ruminating on the trade. It took me across the water.
I find there’s an equal share of things to amuse and cause me anger. Reuters have funded a new journalism institute and it works in conjunction […]

The Internet Paradox

I’ve been having a little discussion wtih Conor and before him Shel Israel. I thought I’d post some to the front page see if anybody wants to join in.
In the summer I met with Rick Segal (the friendly venture capitalist) and Shel Israel who wrote Naked Conversations, along with Robert Scoble. I don’t know why […]

The Yuppie

Sitting in my local restaurant yesterday I caught my first sight of the Irish Yuppie. I don’t mean your average fellar on the make, nor the local farming community after a raft of site sales, nor even a software salesman. I mean a couple, down here, dressed for Sunday lunch with the kids too dressed […]

And Now The Irish News From Indonesia

In the summer I met with Rick Segal (the friendly venture capitalist) and Shel Israel who wrote Naked Conversations, along with Robert Scoble. I don’t know why geek culture played as prominent a role as it did in my own little life back in 2006. Perhaps because I would have loved to start up a […]

Does Anybody Know

What’s happening with the media. For about six months I tracked changes in the online media religiously but then got bored. The boredom coincided with the big media players taking a stake in various media companies. Not just Google and YouTube, News Corp and MySpace. I was bored by the fact that the big media […]

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