Jul 10 2007
No-one expected Backfence to fail. It was well financed ($3million in venture capital) and staffed by new-media experts led my Mark Potts, who helped found washingtonpost.com and the @home network.
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Jul 09 2007
Getting visitors to sit a spell. A continuation of “New rituals..”
Graeme Newell writing at TVspy:
“There is a lot of panic in the broadcast industry these days..The inexorably slow and steady decline of broadcast TV ratings have all of us looking hard for a revenue savior. For most TV stations, the feeling is that the […]
Jul 08 2007
The BBC and Value Added Video - finally a major news organization rejects the “online video is the future of news” mantra/hysteria for a more reasoned “online video is part of the future of news” approach.
Jul 06 2007
Two blog posts today draw attention to the fact that newspapers and TV stations are turning from producing news to buying it:
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Jul 04 2007
I am not a big fan of Marshall McLuhan. I do not find his insights to be especially helpful. But that could be my lack of imagination rather than any fault of MM’s. After all Tom Wolfe and Woody Allen, two undoubted geniuses, insist that McLuhan was the “most important thinker since Freud”.
So what […]
Jul 02 2007
Rather than video delivered by micro-sites another possibility is ads customized for specific micro audiences.
Jul 02 2007
Why micro hosted video sites? Forbes does not explain.The short answer is that these sites will be underwritten by micro-advertisers, targeting micro-audiences.
