Content

Is Content King?

Kevin Bermeister | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Google, Digital Media, Search Engines, Content, Copyright, Advertising, Social Networking, Pinterest, Digital, Cisco, Youtube, Facebook, Technology, Technology News

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.

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WATCH: 60 Seconds of Social Media

Shawn Amos | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Social Media, Curate, Communications, Content, Business, Customer Service, Technology News

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?

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Facebook: The Social Emperor's $100B Invisible Suit Could Become Real, One Day

Brian Ross | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Internet Advertising, Content, Social Networking, Internet, Facebook IPO, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Business, Internet Business, Business News

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.

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On a Mission With MISSION.tv

Amy Schrier | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Content, Humanitarian, Social Action, Websites, Travel, Media, Humanitarian Aid, Travel Blogs, Impact News

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.

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Go With the Flow: How to Strategize for a System in Motion

Debra Scherer | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Content, Branding, Social Media Strategy, E-Commerce, Brands, Information Systems, Business News

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...

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Day Twelve: Oatmeal -- Breakfast Recipe of Contented Valentines

Suzanne O'Malley | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Breakfast, Cholesterol, Steel-Cut-Oats, Stroke, Kourtney Kardashian, Oatmeal, Content, Recipes, Health, Valentine's Day, Carbohydrates, Heart Disease, Megan Parmenter, Heart Attack, Sugar, Fiber, High Fiber High Blood Pressure, Healthy Living News

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.

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How the Net Can Fix Netflix: An Open Letter to Reed Hastings

David Fagin | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Steve Jobs, Showtime, Cable Tv, Netflix, Content, Hulu, Stock Market, Hbo, Video, TV News

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.

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The New Yorker's Ken Auletta Talks about Google, Facebook, and the Future of Content

Anis Shivani | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Facebook, Sergei Brin, Ken Auletta, Google, Internet, Content, Future of the Internet, Digital Content, Google Search, Search Engines, Eric Schmidt, Internet Revenues, Internet Advertising, Goodle AdSense, Books News

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?

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Con Games: The Golden Age of Content Is Now

Michael Conniff | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: John Paton, Michael Conniff, Con Games, Digital First, Content, Aspen Post, Media News

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...

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Is a Social Media Expert What You Really Need?

Chauncey Zalkin | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Web 2.0, Social Media, Twitter, Content, Marketing, Seo, Communications, Technology, Facebook, Business News

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.

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Top 5 Things to Know About "Top 5 Lists"

Azita Ardakani | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Lists, Content, Bloggers, Social Media Tips, Tips, Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Blogging, Technology News

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.

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Pandora Founder Tim Westergren Talks the Future of Content

Debra Scherer | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: The Little Squares, New Media, Online Media, Content, Pandora, Tim Westergren, Media News

"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."

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The Real Deal on Cable's App Flap

Dennis Kneale | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Time Warner, Apps, Discovery, Cable Tv, Viacom, Scripps, Ipad, Television, Content, Technology News

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.

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The Translator Takes Center Stage

Nataly Kelly | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Literature, Apple, Multilingualism, Content, Books, Freelancers, Translation, Ipad, Google, Business News

"We labor in obscurity." These are the words of a literary translator who contacted Nina Sankovitch recently, as reported in her excellent post, "Foun...

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Why Apps Might Just Save Content

Michael Turk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Music, Content, Apps, News, Warner Bros, Media News

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.

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Con Games: The Domain Game

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Domains, Newspapers, Google Ads, Content, Google, Technology News

Domain "parking," once the solution, is now the problem that won't go away.

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A Conversation With Your Cellphone

Claire Gordon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mushon Zer-Aviv, Content, Virtual, Digital, Liveness, Conversation, Real, Danah Boyd, Unplug and Recharge, Phillip Auslander, Healthy Living News

Digital media use can sometimes graze the edge of social acceptability, but as digital and analogue life become evermore integrated, the protocols get blurry.

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Fretting Over Internet Privacy? Relax, You Don't Have to Opt-In to Big Brother.

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...

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Verizon Throws Fuel on the Net Neutrality Fire

John Tarnoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Level 3, Verizon, Cable, Content, Entertainment, Wireless, Comcast, Net Neutrality, Franken, Technology News

What Big Bandwidth apologists misrepresent as FCC "regulation" of Net Neutrality is actually the preservation of the open market.

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Too Much Content: A World of Exponential Information Growth

Brett King | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Linkedin, Prosumer, Apple, Flood, Digital Intuition, Twitter, Content, Facebook, Exabytes, Technology News

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?

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"A Screen Is a Screen Is a Screen" Is a Meme

David Kleeman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Iphone, Internet, Games, Television, Screens, Content, Children, Toddlers, Software, Media, Screen Time, Movies, Ipad, Healthy Living News

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.

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Public Mycasting System

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media, American Narrative, Interactivity, Connectivity, Nouriel Roubini, Content, Andrew Sullivan, The Kardashians, Ivanka Trump, Trendspotting, Novels, Trends, Self-Expression, Storytelling, Sincerity, Mycasting, Blogging, Technology News

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.

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Online Seizure and Counterfeit Bill: Burning the House to Roast the Pig

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: First Amendment, Coica, Congress, Piracy, Counterfeiting, Anticyberquatting, Content, Senate Judiciary Committee, Domain Names, Orrin Hatch, Web 2.0 Summit, Peter Chernin, Technology News

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.

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Why Your Social Media Campaign Is Not the Next Old Spice Guy

Jeff Sweat | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Old Spice Guy, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Content, Advertising, Advertising Social Media, Youtube, Marketing, Old Spice Ad, Smell Like a Monster, Smell Like a Man, Viral Video, You Tube, Media News

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.

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Media: Better Free Than Cheap

Lee Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Livestrong.com, futureme.org, Aol, Demand Media, Content, Lance Armstrong, Fix a Fight, Media News

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.

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