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The online coverage of the Olympic Games on MSN is spectacular. The Olympics often provide a showcase new broadcast technology. For this Olympics, it will surely be the innovations in online video and the entrance of Microsoft's Silverlight.
Earlier today at the Beet.TV studio, we spoke [...]
Fascinating discussion by Dan Gillmor and others recently at the Center for Citizen Media blog: Helping the Almost-Journalists Do Journalism. Excerpts:
The people who???ve done the best reporting on this scandal [the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay] have not, for the most part, been working for major media outfits. [...]
Registrations are now open for PodCamp Montreal 2008. The event, focused on podcasting and other new social media, is free and will happen on September 20th and 21st at Pavillon de Design de l’UQAM in Montreal.
Schedule is here.
It’s organized by many [...]
I have two submissions to SxSW 2009 and would be delighted if you would consider voting for them please:
> Taking Platforms to the Next Level
Companies are finally realizing that in order to find market success they must build their products as platforms [...]
My pal, Ian Forrester invited me to the alpha of a new media sharing app called Boxee. Yikes. I was baffled by the experience at first because the app doesn't support the use of a cursor, you have to use keys to mouse around. I can't remember the last time [...]
It opens with clashing cymbals and some thundering beats of a timpani followed by a few bars of trumpet fanfare that make us, in some weird Pavlovian manner, turn into fans of sports we completely forgot existed for the previous three years and fifty weeks. We hear those trumpets and [...]
Like every thing else about him, when it comes to corporate communications, Steve Jobs is an enigma.
Let’s review some of the highlights:
Presentations: The way Steve Jobs makes presentations is the benchmark for making great presentations.
Speeches: The way Steve Jobs makes speeches is the benchmark for great speeches.
Position [...]
No surprise that Google has assessed it's $1B acquisition of 5% of AOL and decided that it looks like a bad deal, now:
[from Wired News - AP News by Michael Liedtke][...]
Google acknowledged for the first time that it might have to recognize a loss [...]
I’m still hooked on Twitter (I’m [twitter.com]), but it’s clear that many of the people I talk to about my enthusiasm just don’t get why anyone wastes their time on it. So I tell them that to me, successful use of Twitter comes down to tuning and feeding. [...]
I'm on vacation until around the 19th of August, so things are going to be pretty quiet around here until then.
I will still be approving comments, so keep 'em coming, and I reserve the right to weigh in should something fascinatin' cross my transom.
But! I also reserve the [...]
It's been three years since I first heard Ulrik Haagerup speak. He helped transform a regional newspaper to a multi-platform business, or media house as he called it. If US newspapers want a model for a multi-platform business, they have a good model in Denmark. He helped transform Nordjyske [...]
Just when you thought the market for buying and selling newspapers was all but dried up, news comes that Hearst has scooped up a bunch of dailies and weeklies on Connecticut's affluent Gold Coast.
But there's something odd about this deal. The seller is Hearst's frequent partner MediaNews Group. And [...]One of the news items I missed while I was away was the launch of Google's VC business. Not sure if anyone made the connection, but Google has already been in the VC biz, though in what might be called "very late stage": They invested $1 billion in AOL [...]
I read an interesting ebook yesterday titled The Taxonomy Folksonomy Cookbook by Daniela Barbosa of the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. She's a product manager working with the taxonomy and metadata management tool Synaptica. In this "cookbook" Barbosa argues that companies should use both taxonomies (created top-down [...]
Filling a vehicle with gas might be the current problem for many, but finding a place to park the car has been an issue for a lot longer. Several companies have fired up to help frustrated drivers park their vehicles. Two previous posts addressed the parking [...]
This was the wonderful Carvel cake the team presented me with yesterday at the end of the work day. I’m told a certain team member needed to go out of her way to find a Carvel. I’m also told that another team member bought [...]
A post on ValleyWag recently announced that file-sharing uber-giant BitTorrent would be laying off 12 of its 55 employees. This accounts for the entire sales and marketing department. This decision has been made in light of the recent failure of BitTorrent's staff to sell Best Buy its Torrent Entertainment [...]
Say a quite word of thanks dear reader to Mr Kevin Anderson. Why? Let me explain.
Yesterday I posted a graphic that tried to sum up some of the problems that still exist as we try and engage with community.
I’d been thinking about it because I’ve been updating content for [...]
"What's long held back the newspaper industry and gotten it in the current mess has been holding back online innovation that might impact the legacy product (print). The kind of serious innovation that might have avoided the turmoil we're now seeing among newspapers (especially larger metros like the Inquirer) could only take place with [...]
We’ve now held three of the seminars in the Calliflower Communiqués series that we announced at the Calliflower launch. You can listen to them all by visiting the newly created Calliflower Communiqués blog, or by subscribing to the podcast feed. You can [...]
