Two Years Later: How the IPad Has Changed News Consumption

Well it’s been two years and three IPads, so its a good time to step back and look at how my life as a heavy consumer of news has changed. Much has changed.  But there is no question that I have come to use both the IPad and IPhone for a great deal of news [...]

How and why you should do data journalism

Reblogged from GigaOM: One of the big areas of focus for technology companies over the past year has been “big data” — in other words, the idea that there can be a lot of value in finding patterns in the massive quantities of user data and other information that a business generates. This has a [...]

Ignore the Consumer At Your Own Risk: The death of Kodak

The latest tombstone in the “old media” cemetery is Kodak. Once the most powerful name in photography, Kodak stands out as a company that took too long to understand what its real purpose was. It wasn’t to make film, it was to take “pictures” that allow their customers to preserve images. If Kodak understood that [...]

SOPA: We Can Fix This

The problem with the fight over SOPA is that no one is playing by the same rules.  In fact, there are no rules and frequently people on the same side are fighting for completely different reasons.  In the media world, we have journalistically-minded companies who have spent a lifetime defending freedom of speech and fighting [...]

Move over Gilt, Hautlook etc. Here Comes vente-privee

It’s not widely known here that most of the highly-discounted fashion sites in the US, like Gilt,  HauteLook, Beyond The Rack, Rue La La,  Fab.com and others are really copies of a site that began in France almost a decade ago,  called vente-privee. A fascinating company with nearly a billion dollars in revenue,  vente-privee began [...]

Yahoo’s Choice

The choice of Scott Thompson is another roll of the dice by the Yahoo Board, which hasn’t been winning a lot at the craps table lately. But to be fair to Pay Pal’s extremely successful boss Scott Thompson, everyone deserves a chance to rise to the occasion, The problem is that Yahoos board continues to [...]

Watch out Comcast, I’ve Got Choices

It was a great New Year’s gift. I was at our home in California this week and looking forward to watching my alma mater, Syracuse, play DePaul in basketball on New Years Day. The Orange are undefeated and the number one team in the country this year, and despite my brutal travel schedule and the [...]

The Influence Gap: Who Should Be Talking About You, But Isn’t?

One of the biggest advantages of the new digital media world is the ability to track behavior and generate data that can have profound impact on the success of companies and their products. By measuring actual consumer behavior and being able to track the roots of that behavior — as in discovering WHY someone was [...]

Now THIS is Convergence

You gotta love this. Picked it up at sports site SBNation in a blog item from Jason Kirk. It’s the ultimate use of old media to promote new to drive engagement! Go Mississippi State!

Is The Ad Market Slowing Down? The Media Search for New Revenue Streams Picks Up Steam

Concern is growing that the overall Advertising Market is beginning to slow down, and that situation will worsen after the presidential election is over. Such concerns have caused media companies to accelerate their hunt for new revenue streams. None of this comes as a surprise. Increasingly marketers have shifted funds from advertising to PR, social [...]