Stowe Boyd has it pretty much spot-on in his analysis of the New York Times’ announcement that it’s moving to a freemium model in 2011. Over at Reuters, the ever-eloquent Felix Salmon has his own, equally dark view of the move by the NYT, noting his belief it will do them no end of damage.
In [...]
As part of my recent cross-Tasman jaunt to Auckland, there was also an evening event held by Network PR for the Kiwi media. It even got coverage on 3News’ business program.
Attended by around 80 media types (new and heritage), Julie Starr and I gave (very) short talks on our views on the nature of [...]
As awful as the news coming out of Mumbai is, this latest tragic event is proof positive of the power of social media as immersive, human, immediate and infinitely more powerful than the heritage media in reporting current events.
In terms of immediacy and impact, as well as a true human face on the events, you [...]
September 11, 2008
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It seems the pointless hamster wheel of journalists vs. bloggers is spinning up again along with the Large Hadron Collider. This one though, is more likely to produce a black hole than the LHC as the two camps disappear up their own collective orifices. Why, oh why, I ask, do the “professional journalists” in their [...]
My blog has been cited many times by other social media sources and has significant authority. Some recent media is listed below.
A research dilemma: Confidentiality breaches (Research News, October 2009) discussing the management of customer relationships when your information has been criticized and exposed online.
Here, Now and Next (Yikes!, September 2009) discussing cultural shift, youth, [...]
This week, I’m a participant in Mark Jones’ highly regarded podcast, The Scoop, a part of the Australian Financial Review’s MISAustralia stable. I met Mark at the recent PubCamp events in Sydney and Melbourne, and we’ve been chatting online occasionally since.
This weeks’ show features me, Laurel Papworth, Michael Specht and C-level types Malcolm Pascoe, former [...]
Like my friend, Stilgherrian, I am pretty excited that educator and journalist, Francis Pisani has chosen to highlight our analysis of the Future of Media Summit in his piece Blogalaxie/4: “futur des médias” et “rumeurs”, for his Le Monde blog, Transnets:
Ils ont parlé de la “tension artificielle” blogueurs-journalistes qui, selon Stephen Collins occupe trop de [...]
Hugh Martin of APN Online has commented on the ongoing artificial journalist vs. blogger thing. His post seeks to establish him as both experienced professional journalist and experienced “online guy”. I’ll pay him on both accounts.
However, his post exhibits some of the worst traits he and the other professional journalists have accused bloggers of perpetuating [...]
A comment from PWC’s Tim Bull, on my summary of The Future of Media Summit prompted a lengthy reply from me. Tim argues for easy, usable media formats for non-early adopters. I agree. I think the issue of early adopters seeking data freedoms that aren’t needed, wanted or even cared about by later adopters that [...]
If you attended Ross Dawson’s Future of Media Summit in Sydney or Silicon Valley yesterday, there are a few core take-aways you might have been left with:
the artificial split/war between journalism and new media prevails
everyone – PR, journalism, advertising and broadcasting – is trying to figure out this social networking and social media stuff (and [...]
