Brian Fuller’s blog on the state of media and communications

Has the advertising free-fall slowed?

Don’t break out the Champagne just yet, but signs are emerging that perhaps the advertising collapse for newspapers and magazines is slowing and leveling off. Still, publications have a long way to go to get with the program.
The Wall Street Journal reported this week:
A year-end flurry of ad spending helped moderate steep declines at some [...]

The Future of News (is “pretty clear”)

Summary: The future of news needs not only to leverage all of us but it needs to be visual.
Say what you will, but the kid’s timing is impeccable.
On a day that saw news break that newspaper circulation continues its freefall (nowhere faster than my hometown newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle -25%) and a survey emerged [...]

Micropayments are macro-b.s.

The headline is amusing in and of itself:
Google Plans Tools to Help News Media Charge for Content
Miguel Helft, otherwise clear-eyed reporter for the New York Times, writes deadpan:
Google is planning to roll out a system of micropayments within the next year and hopes that newspapers will use it as they look for new ways to [...]

Old media, new technology and the tyranny of age

Summary: Sometimes established media shows its age and biases with breathtaking clarity. Media plays a key (if fading, alas) role as cultural skeptic, but increasingly it appears out of step with technology advances that imperil media’s traditional model. The farther it falls the behind, the more it imperils its important role.

I felt this way reading [...]

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