Is Content King?
The days of unrestrained Internet downloads and open access content are approaching the end. People are the Internet's biggest content owners and they want their share of value.
The days of unrestrained Internet downloads and open access content are approaching the end. People are the Internet's biggest content owners and they want their share of value.
Shawn Amos | Posted 05.18.2012
Companies that hope to remain competitive know they need to maintain a presence on social media sites. But how can they integrate customer service into the operation?
Brian Ross | Posted 05.17.2012
Rewarding Facebook for yet another amorphous gathering of Internet humanity that avoids ads like the plague and travels digitally out of the Facebook neighborhood like a shut-in, will not make the shareholders money.
Amy Schrier | Posted 05.02.2012
For some time I had been ruminating on the growing need for a humanitarian media brand, a source of content, videos, articles, photography and community that would serve as a platform for dialogue among the growing number of people interested in social action.
Debra Scherer | Posted 04.27.2012
People often ask me, why have you called your company The Little Squares? Are you thinking about pixels? Polaroids? Contact sheets? Film stills? Or ar...
Suzanne O'Malley | Posted 04.13.2012
We all have excuses for not eating healthy foods. My oatmeal excuses are endless: it tastes bad; takes too long to make; is mushy; and makes the hardest dish to wash ever if you don't rinse it right away. But then I discovered that most box cereals have the nutritional value of a Twinkie.
David Fagin | Posted 03.04.2012
The best way for Netflix to recoup those lost subscribers, and add legions of new ones in the process, is to offer new shows people actually want to watch and can only see on Netflix. And they're trying just that.
Anis Shivani | Posted 02.09.2012
Ken Auletta has constructed probably the best narrative yet about Google's rise and rise. But to what extent is the company in control of its destiny?
Michael Conniff | Posted 12.25.2011
Ink-stained wretches will find this hard to believe, but we the people have moved full-bore into the golden age of content. Despite the nosedive of pr...
Chauncey Zalkin | Posted 10.11.2011
I think the people who call themselves social media experts are probably amazing tinkerers and investigators. But if you're going to allot part of your budget to this person/people, they should also be strong writers, strategists, and communicator on many levels.
Azita Ardakani | Posted 10.09.2011
The ubiquitous rise in "Best Of's" is baffling. In an attempt to help myself remember what to look for, and mentally manage some of the online clutter, I am sharing my top 5 tips.
Debra Scherer | Posted 08.29.2011
"It's like peeling away the structure and design when you move to the web. This will be an experiment as to whether raw good quality content will just float up."
Dennis Kneale | Posted 05.30.2011
The cable industry is bracing for a bitter slugfest, the two sides of a once-united house -- content and distribution -- scrapping over an innocuous app that delivers cable shows to the iPad.
Nataly Kelly | Posted 05.29.2011
"We labor in obscurity." These are the words of a literary translator who contacted Nina Sankovitch recently, as reported in her excellent post, "Foun...
Michael Turk | Posted 05.25.2011
Moving to an app model should be cheered by anyone who advocates for a la carte video. Under an app model, programmers could make all of the content from a channel available or have different apps for different shows.
Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011
Domain "parking," once the solution, is now the problem that won't go away.
Claire Gordon | Posted 11.17.2011
Digital media use can sometimes graze the edge of social acceptability, but as digital and analogue life become evermore integrated, the protocols get blurry.
Val Brown | Posted 05.25.2011
Ah, privacy. Is it a relic of the 20th century? Today's society seems rather conflicted on the topic. In the afternoon, we rail at marketers and the l...
John Tarnoff | Posted 05.25.2011
What Big Bandwidth apologists misrepresent as FCC "regulation" of Net Neutrality is actually the preservation of the open market.
Brett King | Posted 05.25.2011
The level and rate of change that we are experiencing today is likely to accelerate over the next 50-100 years. How do we value 'things' when knowledge is pervasive?
David Kleeman | Posted 11.17.2011
Growing attention to media literacy training encourages young people to read screens as deeply as they read text. The truth seems self-evident; all screens are not created equal.
Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011
From mommies' to men's blogs, from food diaries to fanzines, the universal-access realm of online is a new storytellers' paradise with handy short installments as the universal language.
Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011
While the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act has been touted as a way to combat counterfeiting online worldwide, its overly excessive means will surely cause harm beyond posing a threat to free speech.
Jeff Sweat | Posted 05.25.2011
The advertising world obsesses about what makes things go viral, so when a true viral hit like Old Spice Guy happens, everyone's going to try to deconstruct it. But it takes more than a checklist to create a viral hit.
Lee Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011
By allowing their content to be factory farmed writers are only hurting themselves. By posting their videos for free on YouTube visual artists are being economically blind.
Kevin Bermeister | Posted 05.25.2012