Recently at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Kevin Kelly gave a great speech describing his thoughts on where the web is going.
He begins his presentation by stating that it was about 6500 days ago when Berners-Lee created the first web page. The internet began as something which linked computers. Next, web pages emerged and links were shared. Finally, the data within the pages began to become linked with each other. Mr. Kelly describes this process as un-structuring everything in the world down its most elemental form, and then restructuring it so that machines can read it. This restructuring…
Ziff Davis has announced that the January 2009 issue of PcMagazine will be the magazine’s final print edition.
The magazine, which was started in 1982, has a storied history, but its print base eroded over the years as its core brand of journalism—news you can use while shopping for computers—moved online. It cut back from bi-weekly to monthly earlier this year.
The site will still be called PCMag.com, but the sub sites will be renamed and reorganized into one division, PCMag Digital Network.
There have been concerns about whether or not the issues will still be published as a digital edition. It will be,…
We all know the story…
CD sales are sky diving, P2P services are incredibly popular, record labels are stubborn, and music fans are getting sued.
Can this nightmare ever be fixed? The Electronic Frontier Foundation has created a plan that in theory could work to combatant the nightmare we’ve all heard above. Their proposal, “A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing” breaks down an innovative plan that seemingly could work.
In brief, the plan is to have file sharers pay a small fee every month to a blanket or collective liscense that is almost exactly the same as what radio…
Gerd Leonhard, media and technology futurist, posted to his blog a very interesting article on what he thinks are the developing trends in business communications. He goes over a brief history of communications spanning from the phone to social media, and then shares a very intriguing graph of where he believes communications are headed.
As you can see, phone and email use are way down, while social networks and media are the main tools of communicating.
Mr. Leonhard says that already the #1 way that people reach him is through his various social networks. He says a great advantage of this is the…
Peter Kim has provided a comprehensive and growing list of 234 social media marketing examples where companies appear to be doing Social Media well. For anyone involved with Social Media who is trying to pitch it in an organization, this list may help you sell your cause. It’s an interesting list to review and to look for best practice ideas.
Check it out.
We live under the happy illusion that we can transfer news gathering to the Internet. News gathering will continue to exist, as it does on sites such as ProPublica and Slate, but journalistic traditions now must contend with a new, widespread and ideologically driven partisanship that dominates the dissemination of views and information, from Fox News to blogger screeds.
The preceding, most unflattering words for the digital new media era are from former New York Times foreign correspondent Chris Hedges. He is equally damning of new media’s marketing potential.
The Internet will not save newspapers. Although all major newspapers, and most smaller ones,…
Please, can we just stop with all the suggestions to the fast fading newspaper business to save itself through an emphasis on Internet revenue? It hasn’t happened; won’t happen. Traditional newspapers are doomed. Business and industrial death and rebirth are the norm in economic revolutions, from the industrial one to today’s information age. Newspapers’ demise will be followed by television networks collapsing, just as TV undid the once hugely popular radio networks. Sooner than we imagine, all mass communication will be digital and on demand. In terms of news coverage, former New York Times foreign correspondent Chris Hedges gives us…
The majority of bloggers and Internet addicts, like the endless rows of talking heads on television, do not report. They are largely parasites who cling to traditional news outlets. They can produce stinging and insightful commentary, which has happily seen the monopoly on opinion pieces by large papers shattered, but they rarely pick up the phone, much less go out and find a story. Nearly all reporting—I would guess at least 80 percent—is done by newspapers and the wire services. Take that away and we have a huge black hole.
Former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges’ hardly complimentary words about bloggers…
In the beginning ….. an Introduction ….
First of all, I want to thank the folks at Talent Zoo for asking me to be one of their bloggers at Digital Pivot. ‘Tis an honor I don’t deserve. I will try to make my blogs interesting, witty and thoughtful.
Initially, I want to share with you my perspectives, creative background and the source of my creative musings. So, sit back, read on and get to know me.
There are so any things going on in the interactive, broadcast and new media platforms that it is near impossible to keep up with it all. In…
In honor of Memorial Day, I’d like to pay tribute to the Veteran’s History Project, sponsored by the Library of Congress. Created in 2000 by a unanimous Act of Congress, the online project is designed to capture first-person stories of wartime service from World War I to (unfortunately) the present day. It’s history unfiltered.
The Web invites us to consider the future, but for those of us who can’t help dwelling on the past, I find myself endlessly fascinated by sites like the Veteran’s History Project, or my all-time favorite, Archive.org. I’ve often attempted to fire up my design teams with…
