Thursday, April 28, 2005
Yahoo Adds Personal-Search Capabilities to Web Browsing
NewsFactor Network - Tech Trends - Yahoo Adds Personal-Search Capabilities to Web Browsing: "Yahoo Latest News about Yahoo on Wednesday introduced the beta release of My Web from Yahoo Search. Yahoo has positioned My Web as a 'personal search engine' designed to provide users a way to save, recall and share online information with friends and colleagues.
My Web lets users create their own personal online archive by saving their favorite pages, search results and search histories.
In addition, users can share their information with friends and colleagues through integrated tools such as e-mail, instant messenger and personal networking provided by the new Yahoo 360 service.
'My Web is the next step in our vision of integrating search, personal search and community by providing users an easy way to have their own personal web search experience that incorporates the best of the Web and what matters most to them.' said Qi Lu, vice president of engineering for Yahoo Search."
My Web lets users create their own personal online archive by saving their favorite pages, search results and search histories.
In addition, users can share their information with friends and colleagues through integrated tools such as e-mail, instant messenger and personal networking provided by the new Yahoo 360 service.
'My Web is the next step in our vision of integrating search, personal search and community by providing users an easy way to have their own personal web search experience that incorporates the best of the Web and what matters most to them.' said Qi Lu, vice president of engineering for Yahoo Search."
Search engines, startup media sites dream of becoming video hubs
Search engines, startup media sites dream of becoming video hubs: "So far, the world of online video is full of walls. In order to see video, you need a variety of media players, you might have to register or pay for a service, and of course you need bandwidth. But a raft of startups and search engines are here to help bring down those walls, allow anyone to upload their amateur video and other media, and make it more searchable than ever before. The catch? Major broadcasters have been slow to open up video content, worried it'll be devalued by file-sharers."
SimonWaldman.net � Google the rampant ad machine - what’s a publisher to do..?
SimonWaldman.net � Google the rampant ad machine - what’s a publisher to do..?: "ere is no way that traditional media organisations can compete at this pace. Or even at half this pace. This isn’t an act of self-flagellation, it’s just a matter of fact - for better or for worse.
Better, because some of the worst things done online by media organisations were done very quickly, very expensively and very badly. And better because when you have a business to protect as well as one to build, time to think can be an incredibly valuable asset. But worse, because…well, you can fill that bit in yourself.
Most of us are now looking at pretty healthy online businesses. We have big, growing audiences. We see revenue growth of 30% which looks wonderful compared to parent industries which all have question marks hanging over them. Much good work has been done, and much more is doubtless being planned.
But if we look around and want to retain our share of readers’ attention and advertisers’ wallets, it’s going to take probably double the effort,imagination and, frankly luck that even the best of us have had over the last five years."
Better, because some of the worst things done online by media organisations were done very quickly, very expensively and very badly. And better because when you have a business to protect as well as one to build, time to think can be an incredibly valuable asset. But worse, because…well, you can fill that bit in yourself.
Most of us are now looking at pretty healthy online businesses. We have big, growing audiences. We see revenue growth of 30% which looks wonderful compared to parent industries which all have question marks hanging over them. Much good work has been done, and much more is doubtless being planned.
But if we look around and want to retain our share of readers’ attention and advertisers’ wallets, it’s going to take probably double the effort,imagination and, frankly luck that even the best of us have had over the last five years."
Infinity does podcasting
PaidContent.org: April 27, 2005 Archives: "Infinity Launches First Podcasting Radio Station: This is big, at least in terms of intent: Infinity Broadcasting, which recently announced its new media initiatives, will launch the first-ever podcasting radio station. Using content created exclusively by listener podcasts, the station, KYOURADIO will launch May 16 on Talk KYCY-AM in San Francisco and streamed online.
Although several radio stations, such as Bonneville International's WTOP-AM in Washington, D.C., have offered up hour-long podcasts of select programming, Infinity is the first group (at lest in U.S.) to embrace podcasting as the foundation for an entire format the company is calling Open Source Radio. "
Although several radio stations, such as Bonneville International's WTOP-AM in Washington, D.C., have offered up hour-long podcasts of select programming, Infinity is the first group (at lest in U.S.) to embrace podcasting as the foundation for an entire format the company is calling Open Source Radio. "
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Newspapers as East German Politburo, circa 1988
L.A. Observed: Critical mass Archives: "n today's Times, editorial page editor Andr�s Martinez writes that 'working at a major metropolitan newspaper these days can feel a bit like working for the East German Politburo, circa 1988. It's a good gig with great benefits, and people seek you out at cocktail parties, but you have this sense that your days are numbered.' Bloggers, he says, are 'eating our lunch.' He argues that while the game is not up, and he expects them to adapt, 'newspapers are undoubtedly in for a period of wrenching change, especially in terms of how the product will be delivered.' In his view, it's 'only a matter of time before a Yahoo or a Google decides to buy an old media company' to acquire its news-reporting talent — and he notes that Google is worth many times the value of the Wall Street Journal."
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Smart Mobs: Former Yugoslavia: Launch of Videoletters community
Smart Mobs: Former Yugoslavia: Launch of Videoletters community: "Starting in 1999, Dutch documentary makers Katarina Rejger and Eric van den Broek searched and found people willing to send their former friend a 'video letter' which they brought across the border to show; filmed the response of the receiver, who could also send a 'return' video letter - in some cases also resulting in a first meeting since the war.
The resulting heart breaking 25 minute documentaries are presently being broadcast in weekly installments by the public broadcasters of Serbia and Montenegro, Kosovo, Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia and Macedonia. In addition to the TV programme, the Videoletters website offers a social networking website where anyone looking for former contacts can send in a video letter, put out a search request, keep a weblog or add pictures."
The resulting heart breaking 25 minute documentaries are presently being broadcast in weekly installments by the public broadcasters of Serbia and Montenegro, Kosovo, Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia and Macedonia. In addition to the TV programme, the Videoletters website offers a social networking website where anyone looking for former contacts can send in a video letter, put out a search request, keep a weblog or add pictures."
Friday, April 22, 2005
Broadcasting & Cable: The Business of Television
Thursday, April 21, 2005
craigblog: Tipping point coming for "citizen journalism"?
craigblog: Tipping point coming for "citizen journalism"?: "The latest evidence of the attitude shift is FoxNews' MediaWatch cordial discussion about major media using citizens (Trey Jackson has the video). It's a nice little wink from Fox that the crawl on the screen as the panel talked said, 'You report, you decide.'
'I think citizen journalism is a huge force that's going to get greater and greater. There's no stopping it,' CNN President Klein said. 'As long as we're clear what the audience created and what CNN created, there's room for both in this universe.'"
'I think citizen journalism is a huge force that's going to get greater and greater. There's no stopping it,' CNN President Klein said. 'As long as we're clear what the audience created and what CNN created, there's room for both in this universe.'"
Friday, April 15, 2005
Video Distribution Platform Aiming to Kill TV
Slashdot | Video Distribution Platform Aiming to Kill TV: "about Downhill Battle's new open source video platform - a publishing tool based off of BattleTorrent and a video player written in Python. They've started a whole new organization to sponsor the project. They say 'TV channels' will be made out of RSS feeds and anybody can subscribe to another user's content channel. The system is being designed for the express purpose of putting broadcasting in the hands of individuals. I like this idea of using recent advances in filesharing and syndication to allow aggregated content to be delivered to your desktop. There is a radio show on the project available at echoradio.' The project is just getting und"
Google Video (Beta) - Video Upload Program
Google Video (Beta) - Video Upload Program: "Your work deserves to be seen.
You've made a great video. Now who will watch it?
Whether you produce hundreds of titles a year or just a few, you can give your videos the recognition and visibility they deserve by promoting them on Google - for free. Signing up for the Google Video Upload Program will connect your work with users who are most likely to want to view them."
You've made a great video. Now who will watch it?
Whether you produce hundreds of titles a year or just a few, you can give your videos the recognition and visibility they deserve by promoting them on Google - for free. Signing up for the Google Video Upload Program will connect your work with users who are most likely to want to view them."
Google Readies Platform for Video Distribution
Slashdot | Google Readies Platform for Video Distribution: "'According to BetaNews, 'Google is preparing a video distribution platform that provides a complete ecosystem of services for content producers, publishers and end-users.' The first phase of its video upload program rolled out today, and 'content owners will be able to control distribution rights themselves, even setting a price for their video clips. Eventually, users will be able to search, preview, purchase and play videos directly from within Google.''"
WSJ's Online Subscriptions Outperform Print
Slashdot | WSJ's Online Subscriptions Outperform Print: "Wall Street Journal's parent company, Dow Jones, is doing much better with its online publication than with print. Online subscribers pay $84/year, whereas print subscribers are still paying $356... and the profit on the online business is 20 times that of the paper flavor.' From the article: ''They're simply losing market share to other media. Print publishing is not a profitable business for Dow Jones anymore,' said Feinseth. Kann is hoping that the company's long-range growth also comes in online publishing, which has profit margins at least 20-fold higher than print. The Wall Street Journal Online is signing up thousands of new subscribers, up 5.2 percent for the quarter, to a total of 731,000.'"
L.A. Observed: LAT bad circulation
L.A. Observed: LAT reports more bad news Archives: "But an E&P story says that Tribune today told analysts to expect a 5.5% plunge in L.A. Times circulation when the numbers come out next month."
Thursday, April 14, 2005
BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis
BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis: "The bigger point was trust - and that there's someone 'out there' who has built a business at the expense of newspapers not by trying to compete *against* anyone, but by trying to help others.
The business followed Craig's authentic devotion to helping people find each other in a trusted environment.
We contrasted this with the recent Carnegie Corporation survey data that found just 4 percent of Americans age 18-34 trust newspapers.
My message to editors is not that they need to fully appreciate every nuance of how their traditional business is crumbling. It's that they need to appreciate how people's lives and their relationships to media in all forms are changing, and that trust isn't a slogan, it's earned.
Journalists who seek to build a trust relationship with ordinary people need to pay attention to ordinary people and how they live their lives. The imperative is not to save the ship, save the business - it's to serve society, create a better world. Seriously. Trust, and the business, will follow.
Don't worry about competing against Craig. Think of something else, something new. Be the next Craig."
The business followed Craig's authentic devotion to helping people find each other in a trusted environment.
We contrasted this with the recent Carnegie Corporation survey data that found just 4 percent of Americans age 18-34 trust newspapers.
My message to editors is not that they need to fully appreciate every nuance of how their traditional business is crumbling. It's that they need to appreciate how people's lives and their relationships to media in all forms are changing, and that trust isn't a slogan, it's earned.
Journalists who seek to build a trust relationship with ordinary people need to pay attention to ordinary people and how they live their lives. The imperative is not to save the ship, save the business - it's to serve society, create a better world. Seriously. Trust, and the business, will follow.
Don't worry about competing against Craig. Think of something else, something new. Be the next Craig."
Yahoo 'Hybrid' Now Dominates News Web Sites
WSJ.com - Yahoo 'Hybrid' Now Dominates News Web Sites: "In a contest between man and machine, traditional news Web sites are facing competition from online challengers that employ computers as editors -- Google Inc. being the prime example.
But challenging them all is the news site of Yahoo Inc., a hybrid that pairs human oversight with automation and serves up news from multiple sources. In six of the past 14 months, Yahoo's news site has drawn more unique visitors than any rival, displacing longtime news leader CNN.com, according to research firm Nielsen/NetRatings."
But challenging them all is the news site of Yahoo Inc., a hybrid that pairs human oversight with automation and serves up news from multiple sources. In six of the past 14 months, Yahoo's news site has drawn more unique visitors than any rival, displacing longtime news leader CNN.com, according to research firm Nielsen/NetRatings."
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Me TV: BBC channels future of television | CNET News.com
FW: Nielsen: Men Spend More on Video Games Than Music
 Nielsen: Men Spend More on Video Games Than Music
By Ben Berkowitz LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Men spend more money on video games than they do on music, research group Nielsen Entertainment said on Thursday, lending credence to a growing belief that video games are displacing other forms of media for the attention of young men.
And video gaming in general is starting to attract an older audience, with nearly a quarter of all gamers over age 40, the agency also said. The interactive unit of Nielsen Entertainment conducted a random survey of 1,500 people in January and February for its report. Nielsen Entertainment, a unit of VNU NV (VNUN.AS) of the Netherlands, is best known for its benchmark SoundScan music sales service. Its corporate sibling Nielsen Media Research is the standard for TV ratings. For males, Nielsen said, games now rank only behind DVDs as a purchase category, ahead of CDs, digital MP3 files and other ways of buying music. Nielsen also found that African-Americans and Hispanics spend more money on games each month than Caucasians. Advertisers are quickly embracing video games as a better way to get to young men than the more traditional medium of television. Many games now have ads inside them, such as billboards in race games, and Nielsen is working on a method to measure audience response to the in-game ads. Nielsen found 40 percent of U.S. households have some kind of system dedicated to game play, whether a gaming PC, a console or a handheld device. Among gamers, 23 percent own all three types of systems. Among people who own at least one of the major consoles --Sony Corp.'s (6758.T) PlayStation 2, Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Xbox and Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s (7974.OS) GameCube -- 8 percent said they owned all three. Nielsen also examined the amount of time spent playing alone versus socially and found that 79 percent of men and 79 percent of women over the age of 45 spend most of their time playing alone. Teen-age women tended to play more socially, Nielsen said, while women 25-54 are roughly split between playing alone and with others. Overall, the firm said, active gamers tend to spend just over 5 hours a week playing alone and 3 hours a week playing with people or online. The U.S. video game industry has $10 billion in annual revenue, roughly the same as U.S. box office sales. | ||||||||||||
Citizens Journalism: Videos Challenge Accounts of Convention Unrest
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger
Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger: "The Long Tail is about to bring us millions of video channels. Already I'm seeing hundreds of new videos put on blogs every week. It's interesting to see what people are doing with their camcorders.
Watch guys like Chuck Olsen. He handed me a DVD at the SXSW conference with his 'blogumentary' on it. I watched it for the first time last night. Really great stuff. I can't wait until he finishes it and puts it up for you all to watch.
A full documentary film with dozens of interviews. All done by one guy with a camcorder. Just as good a quality as the main stream media TV stations do. In fact, better quality than they do in almost all the markets except for maybe New York and California.
One guy (or girl, for that matter). With a camcorder. With one viewer. That's how markets change. Long tail style."
Watch guys like Chuck Olsen. He handed me a DVD at the SXSW conference with his 'blogumentary' on it. I watched it for the first time last night. Really great stuff. I can't wait until he finishes it and puts it up for you all to watch.
A full documentary film with dozens of interviews. All done by one guy with a camcorder. Just as good a quality as the main stream media TV stations do. In fact, better quality than they do in almost all the markets except for maybe New York and California.
One guy (or girl, for that matter). With a camcorder. With one viewer. That's how markets change. Long tail style."
tierney: The Smart Money
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The Smart Money: "But if you watched the Intrade market throughout the campaign, you saw the traders serenely betting on a Bush victory. Most remarkably, the weekend before the election, the traders correctly called the winner in every one of the 50 states."
Peerflix
IPac - Blog: " Peerflix
Think of it as a tangent off the development line of NetFlix, only with a communal, lending-library flavor.
Here's how it works (from the FAQ): List the DVDs you own and no longer want, add the DVDs you'd like to see, and get ready to trade on!
As soon as you send a DVD out, an item on your wish list gets mailed to you. And, it only costs you 99 cents, plus a stamp. (You get charged $4.95 for five pre-paid trades in the amount of $0.99 each). Peerflix admin operates as the central librarian, coordinating the movement o DVDs between members."
Think of it as a tangent off the development line of NetFlix, only with a communal, lending-library flavor.
Here's how it works (from the FAQ): List the DVDs you own and no longer want, add the DVDs you'd like to see, and get ready to trade on!
As soon as you send a DVD out, an item on your wish list gets mailed to you. And, it only costs you 99 cents, plus a stamp. (You get charged $4.95 for five pre-paid trades in the amount of $0.99 each). Peerflix admin operates as the central librarian, coordinating the movement o DVDs between members."
John Battelle's Searchblog: Google Personal Video
John Battelle's Searchblog: Google Personal Video: "today at the National Cable Show Larry Page announced that 'the company is about to launch a test of personal video submissions.' More: 'We don't know what we're going to get,' he added after the session. 'It's kind of the long tail of video content.'"
Thursday, April 07, 2005
Sony patent takes first step towards real-life Matrix
New Scientist News - Sony patent takes first step towards real-life Matrix: "IMAGINE movies and computer games in which you get to smell, taste and perhaps even feel things. That's the tantalising prospect raised by a patent on a device for transmitting sensory data directly into the human brain - granted to none other than the entertainment giant Sony."
Sony patent takes first step towards real-life Matrix
New Scientist News - Sony patent takes first step towards real-life Matrix: "IMAGINE movies and computer games in which you get to smell, taste and perhaps even feel things. That's the tantalising prospect raised by a patent on a device for transmitting sensory data directly into the human brain - granted to none other than the entertainment giant Sony."
Wikimedia announces Yahoo support - Wikimedia Foundation
Press releases/Wikimedia announces Yahoo support - Wikimedia Foundation: "The Wikimedia Foundation (http://wikimediafoundation.org/) and Yahoo! (http://yahoo.com) announced today that they have reached an agreement by which Yahoo will provide hosting capacity to Wikimedia. Yahoo will dedicate a significant number of servers in one of its Asian facilities for hosting Wikimedia's free content websites. Jimmy Wales, CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, says that this generous donation will be of particular benefit to the vibrant and growing community of Wikipedia users in that part of the world."
Press releases/Wikimedia announces Yahoo support - Wikimedia Foundation
Public Service Publisher Discussion Resources
Public Service Publisher Discussion Resources
The “Public Service Publisher” (working title) initiative is a grassroots effort on the part of public radio and television executives and independent producers to work toward the establishment of a next-generation digital distribution service for public service programming in the United States. It would distribute to citizens audio and video content online and over other distribution platforms via a web-based interface both for both free and compensated use. As envisioned, it would also provide “business-to-business” services relating to public service content and provide support for the broadcast distribution of public service programming. This service would aggregate both content and tools to provide improved access to programming and cost savings to providers.
The “Public Service Publisher” (working title) initiative is a grassroots effort on the part of public radio and television executives and independent producers to work toward the establishment of a next-generation digital distribution service for public service programming in the United States. It would distribute to citizens audio and video content online and over other distribution platforms via a web-based interface both for both free and compensated use. As envisioned, it would also provide “business-to-business” services relating to public service content and provide support for the broadcast distribution of public service programming. This service would aggregate both content and tools to provide improved access to programming and cost savings to providers.
Boing Boing: Guardian's photoblog uses Flickr for pix of electioneering Brits
Boing Boing: Guardian's photoblog uses Flickr for pix of electioneering Brits: "'Over at The Guardian, we continue to subvert media and politics from within. The latest thing - the Election 2005 blog, went live yesterday. And today we're using it to launch...The Blair Watch Project.
'Readers are invited to send in pictures of campaigning politicians, election snaps, and the like to our Flickr gallery. The best will be posted to the blog, but we're going to exhibit all of them. The first use of Flickr by a national newspaper? I think so.'"
'Readers are invited to send in pictures of campaigning politicians, election snaps, and the like to our Flickr gallery. The best will be posted to the blog, but we're going to exhibit all of them. The first use of Flickr by a national newspaper? I think so.'"
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Silvio Rodriquez on piracy
Radio Cooperativa
El cubano adelantó que se encuentra "escribiendo canciones nuevas", pero que antes que vean la luz editará un disco con temas que compuso entre 1968 y 1970. (Foto: Cooperativa.cl)
El cantante cubano Silvio Rodríguez sostuvo que la industria discográfica fomenta la piratería al regirse sólo por un criterio económico que deja de lado "un compromiso cultural con la música del pueblo".
"Ese es un tema muy extenso para hablar, muchas horas, para escribir tomos y tomos. En síntesis, lo que yo creo que tiene de deficiente más que nada la industria discográfica es ver que hay muchos verdaderos talentos que no son recogidos por la industria discográfica porque no son, dentro del criterio de los que hacen el marketing, vendibles, y ese es el meollo para mí de todo", señaló en entrevista con el programa Entre Nueve y Una.
El cubano adelantó que se encuentra "escribiendo canciones nuevas", pero que antes que vean la luz editará un disco con temas que compuso entre 1968 y 1970. (Foto: Cooperativa.cl)
El cantante cubano Silvio Rodríguez sostuvo que la industria discográfica fomenta la piratería al regirse sólo por un criterio económico que deja de lado "un compromiso cultural con la música del pueblo".
"Ese es un tema muy extenso para hablar, muchas horas, para escribir tomos y tomos. En síntesis, lo que yo creo que tiene de deficiente más que nada la industria discográfica es ver que hay muchos verdaderos talentos que no son recogidos por la industria discográfica porque no son, dentro del criterio de los que hacen el marketing, vendibles, y ese es el meollo para mí de todo", señaló en entrevista con el programa Entre Nueve y Una.
Broadcasting & Cable: The Business of Television
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
TV Listings Heading to Mobile Phones
Current TV
Monday, April 04, 2005
The Google Times?
village voice > news > Terri Schiavo: Judicial Murder by Nat Hentoff
village voice > news > Terri Schiavo: Judicial Murder by Nat Hentoff
I dont necessarily agree with hentoff, but some interesting points
I dont necessarily agree with hentoff, but some interesting points
Corante > Vision: Digital Media > Corante: So to summarize, what is your overarching vision about how all the forces we talked about will play out in
FW: carnegie report on future of news
" the future of the U.S. news industry is seriously threatened by the seemingly irrevocable move by young people away from traditional sources of news.
Carnegie Corporation of New York has launched a major initiative on the future of news and commissioned this report, based on a survey of 18-to-34-year-olds carried out by Frank N. Magid Associates in May 2004. (A set of PowerPoint slides comprising a distillation of the survey data is available on the Corporation's web site, www.carnegie.org/pdf/AbandoningTheNews.ppt.) The goal of this effort is to assess where 18-to-34-year-olds get their news today and how they think they'll access news in the future.
Merrill Brown says the future of the U.S. news industry is seriously threatened by the seemingly irrevocable move by young people away from traditional sources of news. "While the outright collapse of large news organizations is hardly imminent, as the new century progresses, it's hard to escape the fact that their franchises have eroded and their futures are far from certain," he notes. "A turnaround is certainly possible, but only for those news organizations willing to invest time, thought and resources into engaging their audiences, especially younger consumers."
iMediaConnection: Social Search Seeks Success
Friday, April 01, 2005
The Seattle Times: Opinion: Can democracy survive our media-saturated society?
