Next Generation of Media Panel, Forrester Consumer Forum
Shar VanBoskirk leading a “Next Generation of Media” Panel Panelists: Jeremy Allaire, Brightcove Ze Frank Philip Kaplan (pud), AdBrite (and AskPud) Q: What is media? Philip – networks are going away....
View ArticleWhy Make Miro?
Regular readers of Open Parenthesis know I’m a big fan of Miro (even back when it was the Democracy Player), the Participatory Culture Foundation, and Make Internet TV. To help understand why, watch...
View ArticleMiro goes 1.0
Miro, the open source video subscription management and player application about which I’ve blogged many many times (really many) , has finally gone 1.0! Check out the announcement on the Miro blog:...
View ArticleLiveblogging Futures of Entertainment 2 – Metrics and Measurement Panel
Metrics and Measurement – 1-3:30 Panelists: Bruce Leichtman, Leichtman Research Group Stacey Lynn Schulman, Turner Broadcasting Maury Giles, GSD&M Idea City Jim Nail, Cymfony Description: As media...
View ArticleMedia Cloud(s) On the Horizon
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society launched Media Cloud in early March, though it had been quietly available for a few months before that. It’s an exciting concept, limited in its current...
View ArticlePublishing in the Age of the Assembled Web
The spring of 2009 has been a difficult one for publishers – newspapers especially – in the U.S., with many sizable metropolitan papers moving to online only, closing, or facing the possibility of...
View ArticleNew Devices, New Approaches, New Hope?
Last week, a number of articles appeared with additional entries in the search for new media business models for existing, old media companies. Hope. Which Way? (Photo by bixentro, cc-by license, click...
View ArticleSave Paste and the future of publishing?
I’m a big fan and subscriber of Paste, an independent U.S.-based monthly (now shifting closer to bi-monthly, with every other issue being a single-topic special edition) magazine focused on music,...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing, Incentive, and Value
In this video, Jeff Howe, a contributing editor at Wired and the author of Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, presents during a Berkman Center Luncheon on some...
View ArticleCoverville Citizenship and the Future of Paid Media
Given all the raging debate about paid media online – whether users (or consumers, if you prefer) will pay for access to content, whether paywalls and micropayments have a place, and the like – it’s...
View ArticleThe Knight Foundation News Challenge, Open Source, and the Future of Hyperlocal
(Quick Update 10/11/09 – see Zachary Seeward’s post about how the Knight Foundation is considering changing the terms of grants in the future, as well as Patrick Thornton’s piece on how the Foundation...
View ArticleBeing Interesting is Not Enough: Be Useful
How to Be Useful (Photo by Robert Banh, cc-by license) I used to be fond of saying that the best advice for content-centric businesses on the web was a simple commandment: Above all, be interesting –...
View ArticleOMMA Global Day One: The Year the Media Died
Highlight of OMMA Global day one for me was Terence Kawaja of GCA Savvian, whose presentation included a verse by verse playing and discussion of his own satirical song “Mad Avenue Blues” (sung to the...
View ArticleOMMA Global Day Two: Content Has To Be Everywhere
Yesterday was day two of OMMA Global, and I think the theme(s) of the day were Innovation and Distribution. Think Outside the Box (Photo by debaird™, cc-by-sa license) On the distribution front, one of...
View ArticleIt’s Not [Just] About Your Site: Managing Your Digital Footprint
One of the core aspects of the assembled web is the concept that brands and all companies need to think more broadly about their presence. It isn’t just their web site, or even their network of 10, 20,...
View ArticleFuture of Media, Video WTF
Two quick notes on media: 1. Paul Gillin: “The Future of Media is: Small, Aggregated, Inclusive, Community-driven, Conversational, Fast, Flexible, Experimental.” 2. New from the PCF: Video WTF? First,...
View ArticleThe Difference Between You and a Media Company
(From ICanHazCheezburger) Sounds a bit like a lead-in to a joke, doesn’t it? Like the difference between you and a media company is that you haven’t laid off half your staff, or the difference is that...
View ArticleThe Vast Wasteland, the Commons, and the Public Interest
Last week the Berkman Center hosted an event for the 50th anniversay of the “Vast Wasteland” speech, when Newton Minow (then chairman of the FCC) was publicly critical of the assembled National...
View ArticleHeading to Denver for DrupalCon
Next week I’m off to Denver for DrupalCon 2012. Since DrupalCon 2008 (which was in Boston) I’ve done both SXSW and DrupalCon each year, but that was proving to be a bit of an overload, so this year...
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