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PEJ: News generates more heat but less light, more voices but fewer conversations and bigger audiences but and smaller purses
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello March 17th, 2008 in TrendSpotting, aggregator, trend.The Project for Excellence in Journalism released its encyclopedic omnibus study of news coverage across media in 2007. The study is a huge amalgam of information about the state of the news media and its future prospects, with 13 chapters covering everything from ethnic to online news. I continue to wade through the volumes [...]
Research Tuesday: Research from around the web
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 28th, 2007 in Conjecture, Gadgets, Long Tail, Market Research & Intelligence, Online TV, Quantification, Research, Research Summary, SMF, Tech Musings, Technology & Entertainment, TrendSpotting, User Generated Content, Web Resources, Zune, horrible headlines, mobile, mobile phone, social ideas, trend, video.Ok, so research Tuesday became research Wednesday Thursday.
Males Love Video Long Time
It’s been a reading week for me. Lots of great stuff to mull over and help shape ones thinking about digital media. Lets start with a report by consultancy Frank N. Magid & Associates with the irresistibly tantalizing header “80% of 18 - 24 [...]
Andrew Keen’s Against You: Why Old Folks Hate Web 2.0
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello June 9th, 2007 in A-List Bloggers, A-List Blogs, Andrew Keen, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, a-listers, polemic, trend.Yesterday, ChangeThis posted an essay entitled “Against You: A manifesto in favor of audience“, by Andrew Keen. Keen is famous for two things, the 18 month flame-out of Audiocafe.com and the merciless taunting of Web 2.0 boosters. The essay is a jaded, bitter and over-simplified rehashing of Jaron Lanier’s more academic essay, Digital Moaism. [...]
Andrew Keen’s Against You: Why Old Folks Hate Web 2.0
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 9th, 2007 in A-List Bloggers, A-List Blogs, Andrew Keen, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, a-listers, polemic, trend.Yesterday, ChangeThis posted an essay entitled “Against You: A manifesto in favor of audience“, by Andrew Keen. Keen is famous for two things, the 18 month flame-out of Audiocafe.com and the merciless taunting of Web 2.0 boosters. The essay is a jaded, bitter and over-simplified rehashing of Jaron Lanier’s more academic essay, Digital Moaism. [...]
Whats happened? Lots…
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 5th, 2007 in Start-ups, Tech 2.0, TrendSpotting, Web 2.0, Web Resources, round-up, social ideas, social media, trend, twitter.Garry Trudeau became an RIAA shill…
The New York Times finds new ways to say the record labels are dead: With the hyperbolic headline “Plunge in CD Sales Shakes Up Big Labels” the NYT outlines the approved list symptoms contributing the labels demise but steadfastly avoids stating any causes.
The software police at the BSA put out [...]
Whats happened? Lots…
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 5th, 2007 in Start-ups, Tech 2.0, TrendSpotting, Web 2.0, Web Resources, round-up, social ideas, social media, trend, twitter.Garry Trudeau became an RIAA shill…
The New York Times finds new ways to say the record labels are dead: With the hyperbolic headline “Plunge in CD Sales Shakes Up Big Labels” the NYT outlines the approved list symptoms contributing the labels demise but steadfastly avoids stating any causes.
The software police at the BSA put out [...]
ALLofMP3.com: Voice Your Opinion of RIAA
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello April 13th, 2007 in AllOfMP3, BPI, Conjecture, Digital Music, Groups Opposing the RIAA, IFPI, Music Musings, RIAA, RIAA and Record Labels, Record stores, Web Resources, copyright, trend.Our Russian friends over at ALLofMP3.com are showing the kind of staying power that would make Lexington Steel proud. Despite being perpetually attacked by the bulldogs of the copyright industries ALLofMP3.com continues to evolve their offering and enhance their site. While checking out their latest upgrades I came across a rather incongruous image on the [...]
A Tale from a New Generation
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 12th, 2007 in Conjecture, Humor, TrendSpotting, trend.I was playing with my 5 year-old niece the other day as she prepared for a busy day of frolicking and fun. As adults often do to kids I decided to give her one of those slightly condescending quizzes testing her basic knowledge of things like where she lived etc…
“Whats your mothers name?” I asked. [...]
The Music Will Continue but the Labels Might Not
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 9th, 2007 in Conjecture, Digital Music, Entertainment, Music Musings, great ideas, guerilla marketing, social media, trend.Photo by Lacey
A great article from the Evening Standard out of the UK about a signer song-writer who had a top selling digital track on iTunes for a couple of days without a major label or offline marketing. Her name is Kate Walsh and she record her whole album in a friends bedroom, forever squashing [...]
Blogosphere by Numbers
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 9th, 2007 in A-List Bloggers, A-List Blogs, Blogosphere, Blogs and Blogging, BoingBoing, Quantification, Research, trend.Technorati has belatedly released their State of the Blogosphere report, which runs through some of the stats from their index of the Blogosphere. Its kinda like Yahoo or AOL putting out a report on the state of the Web, it may be great directional information but with more possible meanings then an interpretive dance. Some [...]
