Chinwag blogs: media

The insufficiently long count

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:15:20 +0100

As an occasional amateur futurist I'd like to touch on a subject that you'll find coming up with increasing and wearying frequency between now and Dec 22nd, 2012. The ancient Mayan calendar or the "long count" - which, thanks mainly...

There’s no controlling the flash

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:09:16 +0100

There’s a quaint story in today’s Guardian revealing the futility of government attempts to control speech and assembly. Police in Leeds are hoping to prevent an outbreak of internet-enabled mayhem after thousands were invited to a public pillow fight through Facebook. . . . A police spokesman said yesterday: “We have contacted the alleged organiser regarding this [...]

A distributed strategy for news

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:44:38 +0100

I’ve been talking with folks lately about the need to develop distributed strategies for news, which includes: * Widgets that enable people to embed your news (and links and brand) anywhere. * A platform strategy enabling people to build on your content, data, and functionality. * A network strategy that includes blog networks (a la Glam). The objection [...]

A mouse roars

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:34:34 +0100

Poor Yahoo. It only goes from worse to worse. They might finally get rid of ineffectual Jerry Yang but then they might get Mark Cuban in the boardroom along with Carl Icahn’s slate. Cuban has an absolutely numbnutty plan to kill Google: Paying sites to drop out of the Google index.

Nothing to Disqus and I wants it back.....

Fri, 16 May 2008 09:34:11 +0100

Ryan Spoon explains his views re Disqus - and les autres - very well so I have flattered and pasted it here as its as good as anything I would have said

As a blog owner, though, Disqus simply isn’t empowering enough…. yet:

Social Network Ads have crap CPM shlock horror

Fri, 16 May 2008 09:34:11 +0100

From the Experience triumphs over Hope dept:

Jason Calacanis points to a study that confirms what what we all knew, just that no social marketeer wanted to admit (some wilfully ignored in fact - do we need a blacklist for blogspammers?). Sez Jason:

Links for 2008-05-15 [del.icio.us]

Fri, 16 May 2008 06:19:11 +0100

At The Churchill Club: The Top 10 Tech Trends
And that’s it. Lots of mobile phone predictions. Green energy. Water. And more phones.
Comcast Bought Plaxo, Deal Closed Today

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The plummeting value of newspapers

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:03:34 +0100

Now there’s a second huge writedown of the value of a recent newspaper purchase. * Lee and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, from Paid Content: Back in March, newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) warned that it would take a $500-$700 million non-cash hit related to its $1.4 billion purchase of Pulitzer in 2005. Weâ€™d wondered previously [...]

Thinking like a platform

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:03:34 +0100

At OPA in London, Steve Kaufer, CEO of TripAdvisor, tells a success story from his Facebook app. Local Picks — which enables users to give their opinions on restaurants and such — attracted 1.4 million new reviews and ratings. That’s invaluable content. That’s thinking like a platform.

It’s about aggregation

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:03:34 +0100

One theme that came out loud in and clear, to me at least, from the panel on the internationalization of media brands that I ran at OPA this morning is this: Top brands with international traffic should be banding together to sell that traffic and audience as a group. No one of them has successfully and [...]