Comments on: There is No New Media: It’s All New Consumption

By: Old Media Is Being Unbundled, Just Like Telecom Was: Tech News and Analysis «

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:01:07 +0000

[...] the pages of newspapers and television screens to these new media entities. In a post last fall, I wrote: Because these new media are attuned to the needs of a new kind of information consumer, it’s [...]

By: The Perils of the Prediction Game: Tech News «

The Perils of the Prediction Game: Tech News « — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:31:33 +0000

[...] I shared some of my thoughts with folks from Nieman Journalism Lab, and here are my predictions for the media industry: When I sit down and think about the future of media, I see two core problems with the media business at large. Most media entities tend to define themselves by features — magazines, newspapers, television and radio — while the audience aka the customers see media entities as “information” resources. [...]

By: Maybe not much will change at all: 2011 journalism predictions from Malik, Gillmor, Golis, Grimm, more » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:01:38 +0000

[...] When I sit down and think about the future of media, I see two core problems with the media business at large. Most media entities tend to define themselves by features — magazines, newspapers, television and radio — while the audience aka the customers see media entities as “information” resources. [...]

By: Hey Hollywood: Netflix Isn’t the Enemy, Old Thinking Is: Video «

Hey Hollywood: Netflix Isn’t the Enemy, Old Thinking Is: Video « — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:10:31 +0000

[...] its forbears made, by shutting out new business models rather than embracing them. A few weeks ago, Om wrote: “When I look at these industries and the failure — or impending failure — of these [...]

By: Hey Hollywood: Netflix Isn’t the Enemy, Old Thinking Is: Video «

Hey Hollywood: Netflix Isn’t the Enemy, Old Thinking Is: Video « — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:50:36 +0000

[...] At the same time, Netflix is only a symptom of a broader paradigm shift, one that the content owners are still learning to navigate. The transition from analog and physical distribution of media to digital distribution has rocked the music, newspaper and publishing industries, and now it’s got the TV and movie industries in its cross-hairs. Unfortunately, the broader video industry is poised to make the same mistakes that its forbears made, by shutting out new business models rather than embracing them. A few weeks ago, Om wrote: [...]

By: All Hail The Cord Cutters: Tech News «

All Hail The Cord Cutters: Tech News « — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:47:15 +0000

[...] from the old school notion of television and allowed me to embrace the idea of “video” instead (read my essay — “There’s no new media. It’s all new consumption”.) In 2009, I compared Netflix to the iPod of broadband. When talking about the future of video, [...]

By: NewTeeVee Live: Your Roadmap to Video’s Future: Tech News «

NewTeeVee Live: Your Roadmap to Video’s Future: Tech News « — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:40:49 +0000

[...] years ago, it was clear as a day to me that, much like rest of the media industry, the world of video was going to atomized, thanks to digitization. As a broadband prognosticator, [...]

By: Katherine Warman Kern

Katherine Warman Kern — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:33:39 +0000

1) Quit tinkering and aim for profound innovation.
2) Send the legal department on vacation and tell them to come back open to re-think the legal implications of your new revenue streams.
3) Transform database lists and management technology into a visual, multi-dimensional representation of all the segments of the New York City “cultural community” and provide free access to anyone interested in probing to find out where they might fit in.
4) Invite those interested in being a part of the community to pay to be on the “map” and manage who has access to which personal assets shared on their profile page.
5) Provide tools for open collaboration between editors and programming management and members to identify what matters and probe diverse implications.
6) Position all talent, editorial and programming on the free “map” relative to which segment it is relevant to.
7) Add paid live event programming, accessible from anywhere, where journalists representing different points of view, probe all the implications, and in which the paid audience may participate with each other and with the presenters.
8) Then have legal department re-define terms of use and eliminate the privacy policy.

By: Mattheww

Mattheww — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:12:54 +0000

This argument, made often, seems to be: You’re dying anyway so why don’t you kill yourself?

No one has put forward a way to make network TV money with online video; there may be none. Meanwhile broadcast TV, for all its fustiness, remains profitable. Yes, it looks to be on the wrong side of progress. Then again, to the tech set so did brick-and-mortar stores at one point.

By: hilla

hilla — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:50:59 +0000

Ask yourself: What have you done to help the ‘old players’ making the right decisions? Help them become the media companies you expect them to be?