Making Sense of the Hyperlocal Landscape
New media guru Jeff Jarvis calls it the 'Holy Grail.' Michael Gluckstadt's Fast Company feature questioned its '$100 Billion Potential.' So what does ...
New media guru Jeff Jarvis calls it the 'Holy Grail.' Michael Gluckstadt's Fast Company feature questioned its '$100 Billion Potential.' So what does ...
Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media
Even the most loyal users can get turned off by a bad user experience. This is the Internet -- there's always something else waiting in the wings.
Buzz Machine | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media
My surgeon called with the results of the pathology report on my prostate cancer. "It's all good news," he said. The cancer was contained to the prost...
Buzz Machine | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media
I have cancer, prostate cancer. When the doctor told me, he said that if you're going to get it, this is the one to get. It made feel as if I'd jus...
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media
It's my experience that journalists who routinely call PR people flacks are themselves hacks.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media
Two years ago, I had a personal epiphany at the Personal Democracy Forum: New media could change everything... From communications to politics to culture. At PDF '09: more revelations.
Auren Hoffman | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business
One wouldn't think of a personal assistant as being an influencer but Reggie Love talks to the most powerful person in the world twenty times a day -- he is Obama's personal assistant.
Eric Kuhn | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media
Over 1,000 people descended upon the annual Personal Democracy Forum earlier this week. Here are some of my notes -- taken on Twitter, of course -- from the two day conference.
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media
Newspapers, TV and advertising aren't dying. There may be a few deaths in the family, but the distinguished line of TV, print and advertising inheritors can look forward to a continued life of citizenship.
Paul Dailing | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media
The dead rising from their graves to consume the living and overrun the earth, like so many other new trend stories, first broke on Twitter. In its e...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.10.2009 | Media
For me, the key question is whether those of us working in the media embrace and adapt to the radical changes brought about by the Internet or pretend that we can somehow hop into a journalistic Way Back Machine and return to a past that no longer exists.
Rob Fishman | Posted 05.01.2009 | Media
The problem with online journalism is that the parts are weaker than the aspirational whole. Handouts, hobbyists and hired guns can fill short-term voids, but the dilemma of modern journalism, in the long run, remains.
Paul Dailing | Posted 04.24.2009 | Comedy
The more you self-reference, pick feuds and talk about the failure of TimesSelect, the better you're doing. If you make it sound like you're the one who figured out newspapers are dying, you win.
Craig Newmark | Posted 03.05.2009 | Media
Anyone who runs anything, that is, any governing entity, should normally operate in the "culture of participation" mode.
Charles Warner | Posted 12.30.2008 | Media
Sam Zell doesn't understand his employees or his consumers. He thinks they are like he is -- dumb, self-interested, and greedy. And they're not.
Eric Kuhn | Posted 10.16.2008 | Media
I am suggesting that new media can be an adrenaline boost, a shot in the arm to journalists, and can be a way to create a more "powerful" media.
Craig Newmark | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
As more of us get Net access, we're getting the tools for the kind of representative democracy the Founders envisioned. Whoever wins the presidency will be faced with an electorate that is genuinely empowered.
Wired | John C Abell | Posted 06.28.2008 | Business
The AP probably had no idea it would create such a firestorm in the blogging community by telling the (aptly named) Drudge Retort to remove seven head...
Rachel Sterne | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media