What will the long-term consequences of the media revolution bring? Related: Online Publishing: The Long View, Part 1

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“Portal sites are great for organizing and managing content, but… the concept presupposes a marketing mentality that is contrary to the nature of the Web — that everything is organized…

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An interesting way of looking at the close relationship these days between editorial and readers in some of the trade pubs...(something I’m trying to develop for this site as well)…

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(via JD) Tristan Louis, an Internet veteran and a blogger now, among other things, has started writing a series on posts, developing a common theory on issues relating to music,…

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Some long term questions, as asked by Vin Crosbie. Is it good or bad to live in a time of change? What does this revolutionary media change mean for selling…

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Slight hyberbole, but makes sense: “For television, the near future will be a struggle between Murdochworld and Googleworld. But I would not bet on Murdochworld in the long run. The…

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Yeah, yeah, yeah…

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BusinessWeek has a cover package of stories in its July 12 issue on the fragmentation of the general consumer market and media consumption. This first story is a general overview…

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No one has the time to be at home, so don’t talk much about the broadband home. Talk about how you as a media and entertaniment entity fit into the…

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AgentArts, a music personalization company based in San Francisco, has launched a cool app: a mobile content matching system codenamed ”IcyPole”, which utilized Bluetooth personal area network technology to seek…

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The internet and new technologies are set to power growth in the global entertainment and media industry, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers. Entertainment and media industry spending will…

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(via Fred Wilson): Jim Cramer writes about Viacom’s problems and how they have been compounded by Net/online media. “With that kind of precision targeting [via contexutual/search advertising], Yahoo’s and Google’s…

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“When ownership is excluded from the pricing equation, the fee typically drops. Renting costs less than owning, but while you rent you have temporary unlimited use. What should a streamed,…

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TV network Starz Encore will launch an online movie service along with RealNetworks next week, paidContent.org has learned. The service will a hybrid download-streaming service, in the same spirit as…

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The last line is the crux: “People will pay for wanna-have content when they can feel it as their own, either because it is tangible and downloadable or because it…

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(): An interesting research paper out of Missouri School of Journalism: A model is proposed for ISP customers to receive sponsored electronic newsletters in exchange for a discount on the…

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The Sportsline mess has generated more media attention than it deserves, for the simple reason that people are watching how a big conglomerate like Viacom will handle this situation. On…

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Content display R&D efforts at Royal Philips Electronics are “no longer on glass-based displays,” which are breakable and expensive to manufacture...instead, the company is pursuing plastic-based and cheap manufacturing technology.…

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An FT story on the fragmentation and nichefication of media, as digital media technologies proliferate. “The mass media don’t exist any more,” says Bob Liodice, chief executive of the US…

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Another report by Mary Meeker (read below)...this time, it is an 81-page presentation that focuses on the twelve key trends that the Morgan Staley Internet team believes are driving changes…

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A story following proposals being mooted in U.S. to unbundle cable channels, and offer them a la carte..."Information goods are tricky. The first unit often costs oodles to create, while…

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Vin Crosbie expands on the dismal science in the info industry: “Things will get worse before they get better. There’s no free lunch. There’s no easy answer, simple formula, hidden…

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Some good points, which will lead up to the Bloggercon discussion later this weekend: “A plethora of online news sources is now stepping up to fill this credibility gap. I’ve…

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“Now that the computer has introduced the ultimate manufacturing machine, how can the content industry survive based on the economics of finite supply and demand? Sources as diverse as Reason…

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This speech by Prof Eli Noam of Columbia University follows his controversial column in FT in Feb, which generated a lot of heat and discussion. He follows that up with…

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