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It’s payback time: Monetizing User Generated Content...
Posted in IPTV, Internet, Advertising, News on June 28th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
‘Can User Generated Content (UCG) be monetized?’ A new study by Bear Stearns is asking (Via The Long Tail). ‘Yes.’ would be the answer of 20-year-old Brandon Fletcher, who just signed a revenue-sharing deal with YouTube for his online dating show. (more…)
Links from Last Week...
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Publishing, Long Tail, Internet, Reports, News on June 28th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
When everybody is able to make news, to report and, most important, to reach viewers and readers, organization plays an important role. How to organize this endless stream of information? (more…)
Dilemma of the Journalist, Part 2...
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Publishing, Internet, News on June 21st, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
What is the internet, if not a narcissist’s dream come true? Wired is asking its readers this week. That is a good question, and its subject is surely accompanied by another dream: the nightmare of the professional journalist. (more…)
Youtubing: Turning a brand into a cultural practice...
Posted in IPTV, Internet, Mobile, News on June 21st, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
Every week, we hear news from YouTube. Exciting, interesting, groundbreaking. No way to ignore them. Especially not if our goal is to cover new developments and new technologies in media. But we started to ask ourself: Are we still reflecting? What about all the other platforms, other companies, other brands? And here, while asking the question, we already got the answer: YouTube is more than a brand, more than just a name between others. It is actually on its way to become a cultural practice. (more…)
Links from Last Week...
Posted in IPTV, Internet, News on May 31st, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
Google’s hotties (Via Digg)
Google started to show a daily list of hot trends, meaning: a list of the most popular search terms every day. Forget about the first ‘but’ in your head: porn related search-actions are excluded from the listing. (more…)
Remediating and Remoneymaking...
Posted in Television, Internet, News on May 17th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
“The liveness of the web is a refashioned version of the liveness of broadcast television.”, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin wrote in 1999.
Eight years later, this is a two way influence, as recent (more…)
Oldie but Goldie...
Posted in Long Tail, Internet, News on May 10th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Out of a great Forbes special issue on Networks, we highlight an article by Rupert Murdoch, “old media” magnate.
The article starts great: (more…)
Shooting the Shooting...
Posted in Television, Citizen Journalism, Internet, News on April 26th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Great tragedies, such as the one Virginia Tech suffered just last week, have become a way to clearly understand how deep media, journalism and communication have changed in just a few years.
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, the 2005 London bombings, the Virginia Tech shooting just a few days ago: with each of these tragedies the figure of the Citizen Reporter and the role of the Internet as a source of information and communication are becoming an stronger, integral part in the news making process.
In this recent case, it was the video of student Jamal Albarghouti that offered one of the first documents of the shooting at Virginia Tech. A public debate was immediately raised about citizen journalism, authenticity and authority, and the protection of victims.
One of the things the Virginia Tech massacre showed us, from a communication point of view, is the value Citizen Reporters may bring to news making and how today, sometimes, the journalist isn’t the fastest and most reliable news source: " onclick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outbound/www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.media17apr17_0_7252873.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines_br_/');">social networking sites (Via PicturePhonning), like Facebook or MySpace were. In such dramatic, unexpected and immediate situations, traditional media is increasingly adapting the role pointing and getting out of the way.
´We live public lives on the web now.´ said Jeff Jarvis in CNNs Reliable Sources. In the case of the Virginia Tech shooting, that means the aura of the first hand reports of students, coupled with their newly achieved power to speak for themselves opens a discussion which can actually help to redefine the role of journalism nowadays, and brings a wider dimension to the discourse of power and media.
Co-written with Maren Hermans.
Don’t Speak. Point!...
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Internet, News on April 17th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Bruno Giussani published an excellent article on Lunch over IP about the future role of journalists and editors. In a world of Citizen Journalism, the role of editors and journalists is to become information facilitators, organizers and coaches. Their role becoming many times to “Point to people and get out of the way”.
Giussani explains how “old media” and “new media” aren’t antagonistic and as they are exploring how to best complement each other, they are changing inside out while at it. How will media look in the future? Giussani gives 3 example properties future media will have: Assembled media (the ability to potentially connect any media to any other media), the Read-Write Media (consumers participating and transforming media) and The Media as Places (changing the idea that a newspaper or a TV channel is a product to the idea that it’s a place).
Related: User-Generated Content Is Top Threat to Media and Entertainment Industry
Related: Huge interest in ‘Assignment Zero’ crowdsourcing experiment (Via Cyber Journalist)
Links from last week...
Posted in IPTV, Internet, Radio, News on April 17th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Joost: It’s The Metadata, Stupid!
When talking about Joost, people tend to focus on its P2P infrastructure, its media center-like interface and its content deals. Now those are all valid points, but the real key to Joost’s success may be something else: A metadata framework that might just revolutionize the way we watch television.
Google CEO on YouTube, Clear Channel, broadcasters
Interview to Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the National Association of Broadcasters conference. The interview goes over the latest YouTube and Google news regarding media and includes advice to broadcasters and investors.
Internet radio dealt severe blow: Copyright Board rejects royalty appeal (Via Digg)
A panel of judges at the Copyright Royalty Board has denied a request from the NPR and a number of other webcasters to reconsider a March ruling that would force Internet radio services to pay crippling royalties.