By Ian, on January 16th, 2007 Press release distribution agency PR Newswire and blog search engine Technorati have signed a deal to put a Technorati button into press releases distributed through the PR Newswire services. So what? you may well ask. Well, it will apparently allow companies to very swiftly measure the impact of any release because any links to them Continue reading Spin Tracker By Ian, on January 15th, 2007 We often go on, don’t we, about the sharp division between old and new media? About the wailing and gnashing of teeth that characterises the shift from one to the other. So it’s nice to see a new product that perfectly marries the two. And with footnote, we’re talking about very old media. Continue reading A Footnote in History By Ian, on January 14th, 2007 The WSJ hosts a debate between two venture capitalists on whether we’re in a Web 2.0 bubble. The participants are Todd Dagres, founder and general partner of Spark Capital in Boston and David Hornik, a general partner with August Capital in Menlo Park. Don’t expect to come away from the article with a strong opinion one way or Continue reading The Great Bubble Debate By Ian, on December 20th, 2006 The Mercury News reports, in fairly stuffy tones, on research that establishes once again that the paper itself won’t be quite the same thing before too long: By a 2–1 ratio, Americans say they would rather watch an old-fashioned TV evening news report’s coverage of an event than the sort of “citizen video” that has become Continue reading Do 1/3 Prefer Citizen Media? By Ian, on December 18th, 2006 I’m delighted to be able to tell you that I’ve accepted the post of full-time editor on the New Media Knowledge (NMK) website, starting in the new year. NMK is a learning and business information hub for companies and individuals working in UK digital media. I’ve been writing this blog as a hobby for the Continue reading Pastures New By Ian, on December 16th, 2006 Zeropaid reports on a new survey conducted in Australia. More than half the respondents said that they regularly downloaded TV shows from the Internet: 15.75% said they downloaded a TV program at least once a week, 25.5% said twice or more, with 12% responding once a month, and 17.5% hardly ever. 57.25% said they downloaded by episode, with Continue reading More than Half Australians Download TV? | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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