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Was Lemann Right? MySpace to Start Paper Magazine?

Friday, August 25th, 2006

This from Advertising Age:

Hey MySpace kids: Want to read a magazine? If you answered yes, you may be in luck. MySpace is actively considering whether to launch an ink-on-paper magazine to complement its insanely popular and remarkably valued online property. The editorial mix would likely cover standout MySpace members and their interests, from music to […]

Was Lemann Right? MySpace, to Start Paper Magazine?

Friday, August 25th, 2006

This from Advertising Age:

Hey MySpace kids: Want to read a magazine? If you answered yes, you may be in luck. MySpace is actively considering whether to launch an ink-on-paper magazine to complement its insanely popular and remarkably valued online property. The editorial mix would likely cover standout MySpace members and their interests, from music to […]

Economist’s News Media Woes Story, So What’s New?

Friday, August 25th, 2006

I just read the Economist story entitled: More media, less news
Well, I would say the Economist article itself is a case of More media and less news.
Anyone who is a regular reader here or who has even a passing interest in the citizen journalism movement would have long known about everything that was in the […]

VJ Beat: Introducing the New TV Journalists

Friday, August 25th, 2006

The Video Journalists or VJs movement has been underway at WKRN-TV in Nashville for about a year. Terry Heaton, a consultant for the station, writes that it affects how the newsroom, the shooters, reporters and editors all do their work. Plus it might well include citizen journalism and could mean that students trained in journalism […]

A Billion Dollars for YouTube? And for My Videos?

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

A CNET News.com article speculates that YouTube could be worth One Billion Dollars. Of course my little videos are a tiny piece of that. So what are they worth? By themselves, nothing. I wouldn’t pay to see them. My son says:
“If you want to live forever, watch my Dad’s videos–about one minute into them time […]

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