December 2008
73 posts
Vanity Fair: Looking back at Bush →
News sites lose their shine →
“It takes both talent and willpower to analyze the report in its entirety and put...”
– A WSJ columnist, decrying the way the Net is killing newspapers, thinks only people with journalism degrees and working for quality newspapers are capable of interpreting the news.
“The internet may have liberated intelligent debate but it has also introduced a...”
– Terence Blacker in the Independent moans that life in the UK is not the same anymore. thanks to technology..
“Americans like their wars movie length and with a happy ending. If the war drags...”
– Mike Boettcher, a Baghdad correspondent for NBC News explaining why US TV channels are pulling out of sending reporters to Iraq.
“There have been other hot brands on the internet before. What’s Napster worth...”
– Arrogant out of touch music label executives explain why they won’t let You Tube show music videos anymore and will shop around for the best financial deal.
“What happens to the music itself when the way to build a career shifts from...”
– A NYT columnist muses on the commercial reality of the 21st-century music business. “Selling recordings to consumers as inexpensive artworks to be appreciated for their own sake is a much-diminished enterprise.”
In what may be an early indicator of broader Web... →
“The inability of Apple and EMI to get these Beatles releases onto the market is...”
– NYTimes laments how you still cant’t get what you want -with beatles music
“The idea of retail stores where you drive there, pick a movie, stand in line and...”
– Fin de siecle? Look it up.
From PC World’s 10 things you won’t see after the recession.
“Context is as important today as content. It may, in fact, be the new king on...”
– This article wonders why magazines and newspapers don’t seem to know where to start to understand the changing business.
The 10 media blunders of the year →
The economic news couldn't be worse for the book... →
“At least one of the major labels is seeking a mandatory minimum licensing fee of...”
– YouTube’s director of content partnerships says . “Some labels are clinging to a model that makes no sense economically. We’ll be sad to see that content go, if it gets to the point where we can’t agree on terms.”
Britain faces an unemployment "bloodbath" in the... →
Warners pull out of You Tube (when will they ever... →
“We are now (single digit) years away from a mash-up of the Kindle and iPhone and...”
– Clay Hall CEO of Aspire Media on why print companies need to become multimedia companies to survive next year.
“Iraq’s stability is because of 150,000 US troops who have overseen the...”
– Scott Ritter in the Guardian
“Five out of every 10 magazines and newspapers will go out of business, scale...”
– 117 predictions for the media for next year
“We’re going to be offering real news, straight down the middle, non-partisan,...”
– CNN’s approach for the year - despite Fox still being the most watched cable news channel
Time spent @ Facebook now challenging Google... →
via Twitter: The Music Industry & its nasty... →
(via jmattx)
“The mobile phone has gone from your third [most important] screen to your first...”
– Newsweek wonders if the iPhone will get bigger
“If the Big Three automakers are dying from the “legacy cost” of retiree health...”
– This writer argues that “there will always be a market for good reporting. Newspapers that shed the burdensome overhead of yesteryear and learn to adapt will do more than just survive.”
“EMI said it was taking the wraps off its long-rumoured EMI.com consumer portal...”
– This report says music labels “are betting that owning the music fan relationship will be key in their struggle to turn around dwindling sales of music.” So what happens when fans go to EMI.com? “Sorry.EMI.com is currently only available in the UK and the US.”
“The digital mixtape is dying on the Web. The RIAA is killing it just like it...”
– Mixwit closes down
“Question: An ambitious and risky undertaking carried out with hubris, and...”
– Is it Iraq? Fannie Mae? Citigroup? Bernie Madoff? Answer
Add Yakety Sax to You Tube videos (dont ask why) →
“Bush has become that foul old relative that’s round for Christmas, and all...”
– Independent’s Mark Street on Bush is despised to the point where a man throwing shoes at him has become an instant national hero.”He can’t acknowledge this failure, so Bush responds as if he’s been confronted by a lone difficult schoolboy..”
“Newspapers can’t live in the past, - readers and advertisers have clearly...”
– The publishers of the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News -USA’s 20th biggest- explain they will limit home delivery to three days a week in order to shift resources to the digital side of the business, becoming the first dailies in a major metropolitan market to drastically scale back the...
“The mobile phone is just beginning to touch our digital lives. As these...”
– The iPhone is the web tool of the future.
“Under a budget proposed by Gov. David A. Paterson Tuesday, New York will charge...”
– Taxing iTunes -what a dumb idea.
“How was Amazon’s first year in the mp3 business? Not great: Music industry...”
– CNN Money think iTunes deserves its 70% share. I’m not so sure.
“If you need it, buy it’ - because come the New Year, it’s going to...”
– Retail Merchants Association head Russell Sinclairtries pathetically tries to drum up Christmas shopping - will check out on Boxing Day how wrong he is!
“If newspapers had understood they were in the information business, rather than...”
– The New Yorker says newspapers will survive only by relying on reader donations to that old standby the deep-pocketed patron.
“When reality does sink in, we’ll plummet. Let’s hope the pohutukawa...”
– Rod Oram on the real state of NZ’e economy
Local blog - & Jon Stewart - on the death of... →