Media Industry Archive

Thought we here at BNET Media would be remiss in not linking to Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s speech to the Newspaper Association of America earlier this week. (Couldn’t find an embeddable version of it, but you can view it over at the NAA Web site.) The speech has made headlines partly for what didn’t happen; the crowd at the NAA, debating what role Google may or may not play in...

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With U.S. newspapers  cutting back on virtual everything, from business reporting to City Hall coverage to investigative projects, it is not surprising that fewer and fewer are choosing to maintain bureaus or reporters overseas. This is unfortunate on a number of levels, and will have grievous consequences on news organizations as the pace of globalization quickens, making what happens off the...

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Google and newspaper battle heats up — The Associated Press announced that it will pursue legal action against online news aggregators, leading many to suspect that Google is a target. The AP has filed legal action against bloggers and news aggregators in the past, and has promised to aggressively defend what it believes is an infringement of fair use violations. Sites like Digg and...

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Been saying to myself since this weekend, “Gotta post the video about the new nano-blogging service, Flutter.” Well, here it is. If you don’t care to play the video, here’s how Flutter works, as described by Zak Ryman, CEO: “I think a lot of people don’t have time to Twitter. It just takes too long to compose a message that is 140 characters and then start...

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Before dismissing this comparison as one of those apples-and-oranges deals, take a moment to think about it. Literally out of nowhere, the little micro-blogging platform that constrains your messaging to 140 characters or less, is, according to Compete.com, this very month passing the august NYTimes.com, as measured by numbers of unique visitors. Yes, Twitter grew by 76.8 percent in March,...

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Every time I read a story like the one I saw in Mediaweek yesterday titled: “MindShare, YuMe Partner on iGRP Metric” the steam starts coming out of my ears. OK, I know it’s not readily apparent as to why, but those of us who ponder the differences between old media and new — and how they should be respected — probably know exactly what I’m talking about. Why, why, do...

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Back in October, for another one of my writing gigs, I wrote about TimesPeople, the New York Times’ Twitter-like social networking tool that launched at nytimes.com last September. At the time, I wrote that as worthy an experiment as it is for the Times to give its readers a community, there was one problem: very few real TimesPeople — as in reporters and executives at the Times —...

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It didn’t take long — just three days — after a well-reasoned argument proposing that the Associated Press is partly to blame for destroying the newspaper business for the AP to react. Today, management at the news service said it will demand that the major search engines, content aggregators and other websites obtain explicit permission and pay AP to reproduce its content,...

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Largely because of Robert Scoble (aka @scobleizer), there’s a lot of chatter today about Friendfeed, which launched a beta of its redesign today. Personally, I haven’t been spending that much time on Friendfeed lately, even though I like the concept, which is to aggregate all of a user’s social media channels — from Flickr to Twitter to StumbleUpon to Google Reader — and...

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Ad Age has a far more detailed analysis of how the troubles at General Motors and Chrysler will affect media companies than the one I did last week, and it’s worth a read. The magazine surmised, as did I, that the pain many media companies are feeling now isn’t as bad as you’d think, mostly because the budgets from GM and Chrysler have been slowly decreasing for some time now....

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