In its 24 October edition, Business Week has an analysis of the recent sale of Weblogs Inc to AOL from the point of view of the potential for advertising in blogs. Written by Stephen Baker, one of the bloggers on BW’s Blogspotting, the article focuses on what it calls the "promising new micromedia model" where […]
Category: Online Media
Some online content is worth paying for
Some months ago, I let my annual subscription to the Wall Street Journal Online lapse. I’ve been a subscriber for some years, but decided not to renew the subscription. Cost was part of the reason. The WSJ Online is just less than $100 for a year. Not a great amount really. But I also subscribe […]
Shallow journalism at Forbes magazine
When you see a business magazine story about blogs with the title “Attack of The Blogs!,” you should know what to expect. A cover story in the latest edition of Forbes magazine doesn’t disappoint as this paragraph indicates: […] Blogs started a few years ago as a simple way for people to keep online diaries. […]
New editor asks for opinions
In taking up his new role next month as editor of The Guardian Technology supplement, freelance journalist Charles Arthur is doing something quite smart – asking readers for their opinions on how he should shape the newspaper under his editorship. Terrific use of a blog by a journalist as an ‘engagement engine’ with a newspaper’s […]
Podcast interview with Forbes
An interesting follow-up to the Forbes shallow journalism story (my unrepentant description) yesterday which described how the magazine portrayed blogs and bloggers as the source of all evil. In a comment yesterday to Steve Rubel’s critical post, podcaster John Furrier says he’s interviewing Forbes’ proprietor Steve Forbes about the benefits of social media: On Monday […]
BBC web users have their say
Some lively conversations going on in the BBC News website’s Have Your Say section, a forum where anyone can contribute comment and opinion on topics presented for discussion. One of the interesting things about this forum is the comment recommendation system where readers can recommend a comment to tell the BBC and other readers which […]
Unsettling FT feature on blogs and business
Oh dear. The Financial Times nearly "did a Forbes" with a feature story on Friday about blogs and business. Using the headline Who’s afraid of the big, bad blog?, writer Kevin Allison starts out saying: […] Weblogs, or blogs, are the periodic rants and raves of millions of hobbyists and armchair pundits, who take advantage […]
Daily Telegraph starts podcasting
A new mainstream media entrant into podcasting – The Daily Telegraph today launched the first of its new daily podcasts. The UK daily says that its podcast is a single audio download available each day, consisting of three key articles from the day’s paper selected by the editor. I listened to the first one, a […]
NevOn joins Corante Network
I am delighted to report that NevOn – this blog – is a participant in the Corante Marketing Hub, part of the new Corante Network that launched today: With the launch and development of the Corante Network, Corante has partnered with scores of the blogosphere’s most respected thinkers and writers in specific categories to bring […]
BBC getting into blogging
The BBC’s political editor, Nick Robinson, started a blog last week, called Nick Robinson’s Newslog. His first post includes this text: […] The BBC is about to start a trial series of blogs, each of which will be built using the kind of software employed by millions of weblogs around the world. This is the […]
The continuing rise of citizen journalism
BBC News: 2005 was arguably the year citizens really started to do it for themselves. Raising mobiles aloft, they did not just talk and text, they snapped, shared and reported the world around them. Commentary by Jo Twist of the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank illustrates the far-reaching effects and changes in the […]
Disintermediating the news
A thoughtful article on Friday by Richard Sambrook, director of global news at the BBC, on how the internet is disintermediating news: […] News organisations do not own the news any more. They can validate information, analyse it, explain it, and they can help the public find what they need to know. But they no […]
The podcasting opportunity for mainstream media
BBC News: Almost two million BBC radio podcasts were downloaded during December, with the corporation’s breakfast programmes the most popular with listeners. […] Simon Nelson, Controller of BBC Radio & Music Interactive, said: "It’s fantastic to see how the demand for radio downloads has grown since we first offered them in 2004. These figures underline […]
New magazine for podcasters launched
In show #103 of our podcast last month, Shel and I talked about ID3 Podcast Magazine, a new print publication about podcasting launching in May. Well, you don’t have to wait until May if you want to get your hands on a brand new magazine about podcasting as the first edition of such a new […]
Moving towards Google’s EPIC
Still thinking that the Google Grid and the Evolving Personalized Information Construct are pure fantasy, just a history lesson from 2015? From The Times yesterday: Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet controlled by the search giant, according to sources who […]
Engage with bloggers, says the BBC
BBCÂ journalist Paul Reynolds regards the blogosphere as a source of criticism that must be listened to and as a source of information that can be used. In a lengthy article on the BBC News website, Reynolds presents a number of examples to back up his conclusions that mainstream media has to sit up, take […]
Orchant insights continue at ZDNet
If you’ve been a follower of Marc Orchant‘s insightful commentaries over at The Office Weblog about all things to do with office productivity, cool tools, gadgets and Microsoft Office, note that he’s moved house. From the beginning of February, Marc’s now blogging at ZDNet with the new Office Evolution blog. Sign up for the RSS […]