Unless we are all willing to settle for user generated content of various and dubious quality, how will we get that great content we've grown used to?
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media
The new Aol mark featuring lower case "o" and "l" and a dot at the end does a nice job of cracking open the brand for a new look.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington clashed with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Dopfner Thursday at the Monaco Media Forum. Huffington and ...
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
It's not especially difficult to take $3 billion worth of product and give it away successfully online to the delight of millions of users. The question is how to make money from that give-away.
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media
Information is abundant and free; collating the threads of its different parts becomes the scarce source of value. It may interest us all to know that this was the premise of Time Magazine when it was founded.
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 09.13.2009 | Media
As a drug, news aggregators are a wonderful alternative to the real thing. The danger to News Corp and others, of course, is that without them reality may bite.
Anis Shivani | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media
How can we retain, even enhance, creativity in the digital age, taking advantage of near-zero costs of redistribution? Two recent books consider the question.
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
Newspapers can't buy a break; not only are fewer people reading them, it appears curbing a newspaper appetite may be good for you.
Bloomberg | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media
July 9 (Bloomberg) -- New York Times Co. said in a survey of print subscribers that it's considering a $5 monthly fee for access to its namesake newsp...
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media
Every time media companies take a step or two towards the invisible fence line surrounding the free content playground online, the dog collar starts spitting electrodes.
Rich Nadworny | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media