Online Advertising Consolidation

Jeff Jarvis notes that Google controls 40% of online advertising, and that their share of online advertising is growing faster than online advertising as a whole. In a world where online services are increasingly monetized by ad revenue – this concentrates incredible power in Google’s ad serving algorithms.
It’s not hard to understand why they are [...]

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Sampling Music

Bob Leftez writes about discovering The Weepies – a great but lesser known band that he discovered through their labels downloadable sampler – like Prince done in conjunction with a local paper.
Bob like them so much he wrote a post about them (bet their traffic spiked). It also gave him a platform to talk about [...]

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Physical & OnLine Media Advantages

Jeff Jarvis, writing about Prince’s distribution of his new CD inside the London’s Sunday Mail says:
“it exploits the one last advantage of printing a paper on atoms and delivering them: distribution”
That’s not totally true. Each media type has several unique characteristics which can be used independently or in conjunction with online presence to extend the online [...]

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Washington Post – 10 Principles

Jeff Jarvis writes that the Washington Post, which recently posted its 10 Web Principles needs an 11’th – a commitment to collaborate with readers.
His argument seems to be that the paper is still casting its self in the center and hasn’t come completely to grips with its role as an institution shaping the relationship it [...]

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Federated Advertising Platforms

In a recent post I’d said “media will come to recognize that they are as much in the advertising assembly business as they are in the ad delivery and content businesses”
Seems Time Inc. already recognizes which led to an interesting post at Publishing 2.0 comparing Ad Platforms and Ad Networks. The core distinction is who [...]

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The Future of Newspapers (and Radio & TV)

Jeff Jarvis asked what newspapers will look like in 2020. It’s an interesting question because 13 years is a huge timeframe – when you consider what the past 13 years have wrought. But here’s a stab.
First the underlying processes technologies that are in evidence now, or in accelerated adoption cycles, will be the same processes [...]

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Recognition in the Attention Economy

Michael Goldhaber’s prescient 1997 article “The Attention Economy and the Net” argues that we are at a time of transition between economic systems. The industrial economy is giving way to an attention economy – and with it the way value is apportioned.
The underlying argument is that when there is an abundance of information the value [...]

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The Washington Post’s uses FaceBook API

The Washington Post has done it again – Face book announces an API – they announce an application using it (3 actually but 2 are just hinted at)
The first? A political compass! Answer a few questions and your political orientation is divined – nothing fancy here. But as soon as friend does you can start [...]

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Communities, Media and Civic Engagement

There’s a price every citizen needs to pay in a democracy – involvement. It’s the tax of time and thought that is at the core of “government by the people”. 
Of course no-one can keep abreast of everything – that’s why it’s important that those who have passion about for an area shape the public policy [...]

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Telling it like it is

James Cridland has an excellent post (Mark Ramsey. Grr) extolling US broadcasters to look beyond their shores and admonishing tech enthusiast to stop decrying the death of a medium they love.
Both are long overdue.
First it’s increasingly a global world with (forgive me) a world of great ideas. And those ideas are easy to find. I [...]

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