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McLuhan would blow hot and cool about today's internet
"The internet doesn't really fit into McLuhan's "hot" and "cool" dichotomy. It encourages participation but it also sucks up our attention and dominates our senses."
Postmodernism's Most Important Gift
"Postmodernism's great gift to humankind is this challenging of assumptions, and this is an important matter for our new century. Why? Because in every walk of life, our failed institutions are rooted in assumptions that need challenging"
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Smart thinking is the key to a stylish press
"Don't write off newspapers, says Tyler Brûlé, founder of 'Wallpaper' and 'Monocle'. Titles from Italy to Japan have embraced modern design to remain essential reading"
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NYTimes.Com Aggregates Third-Party Content, Marks Transformation of Media
"The New York Times joins what I expect will be a rapidly expanding list of media brands that aim to create value for their readers by aggregating the best third-party content from across the web."
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"It's over now. Your business model was a historical anomaly built on scarcity of a valuable resource and the willingness of a small group of network operators to not slit each other's throats and to collaborate in exploiting the content producers."
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Consuming Less While Getting More
"The annual report found that for the first time since 1997, the average American’s media intake dropped in 2006. The 0.5 percent decline is not statistically significant, but does conform with longtime trends that show a flattening in media consumption
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Facebook Rate Cards, and Social Networking CPMs
"Blended together, it’s a $6.25 CPM. Those prices, even as theoretical rate card prices that’ll get negotiated down by clients, look a hell of a lot better than Levinsohn’s old $.10 CPM."
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"It’s simply that new content startups understand the value of being lean and mean and constraint-free, whereas old media houses are too stuck in the mindset of big, fancy and infrastructure-bound."
"True value creation happens when everyone who has an economic interest in media is made better off. Value is not created when when value is simply transferred from readers/consumers to shareholders - as has happened here."
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Andrew "Cult of the Amateur" Keen gets slapped around a bit by David "Cluetrain" Weinberger in the Wall Street Journal.
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Forget 'Digital'. We're Talking Post-Communication
"This is not a digital revolution. It’s social. Your Freeview box is digital. Your computer is digital. Everything else is people."
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"It's dominated by diminishing return economics - it's just another mass media play in a micromedia world. In that mass media world, remember, MTV was QVC - they were basically the same business model for different domains (music vs consumer goods)."
Attention is a function of the medium
"As bloggers we may have committed a grave strategic error - if we spun our points out to 200 pages with the customary filler, photos and charts not only could we sell them at £10 a copy but people would apparently commit hours of their lives to reading
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Unsafe Harbors for Viacom and Google
"As content proliferates, the ability to help audiences connect with content that matters the most to them will become the real sweet spot of the media industry."
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Beyond the X's and O's, a Lesson in How to Be Big
"For starters, protect the product by limiting its exposure."
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How Transmedia Storytelling Begat Transmedia Planning... (Part Two)
"Will transmedia branding make a lasting contribution to contemporary marketing theory? It's too early to say. As an author, I am delighted to see some of my ideas are generating such discussion."
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"But now “Attention is Media� is about attention streams as content. Those could be individual attention streams or group attention streams or social network attentions streams. See what I mean?"
"Are industries based upon rapid fire information inherantly less stable than ones based on selling material goods?"
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The Media Assault on Male Body Image
If being a man means having body hair and sweating, why are the sexy guys in ads immune to both?
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"What if [publishing companies] took advantage of the network's unique virtues?"
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All the news that's fit for bits
Martin Nisenholtz is presiding over a surge in digital revenue at the old gray lady.
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The man behind the 'Girls Gone Wild' soft-porn empire lets Claire Hoffman into his world, for better or worse
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Get That Out of Your Mouth #27
"We have to strip away the geekery, the gadgetry, and the consumerism, and instead of explaining why this brave new freakshow interests us, we have to understand what it's doing to us."
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With the accessibility of new technology, it's all about the content.
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Job Opportunities At Nielsen BuzzMetrics
Max is a really cool guy and BuzzMetrics is doing some fascinating stuff. If you're looking for a job in marketing/media in the NYC area, check it out.
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Lawrence Lessig looks at An Inconvenient Truth, specifically at the way the media has handled global warming.
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attentionomics testing and urban spam
On bar postcards: "They sit, modestly at the edge of our attention-field and they'll only 'succeed' if they're sufficiently engaging, interesting or useful for us to want to march over and look at them, read them or ideally, use them."
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Blogging For Blogging's Sake or The Tyranny of the Term
"Take “blog� as another example  “web log� software is simply a publishing platform  an easy-to-use content management system  but it has come to connote an iconoclastic, power-to-the-little-guy ethos."
"Blogging is the closest literary culture has come to instant obsolescence. No Modern Library edition of the great polemicists of the blogosphere to yellow on the shelf."
"With the exception of the prime-time figure skating competition Tuesday, ratings have been subterranean, as the Torino Games have been routinely trounced by everything from American Idol to the Home Shopping Network."
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On the New York Magazine Blog Article
Terry Heaton: "This otherwise excellent piece of work begins with the assumption that the purpose of getting into blogging is to reach the largest audience possible and monetize that audience through advertising."
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Madison Avenue's 30-Second Spot Remover
Robert M. Greenberg is redefining advertising by making the delivery of the message a two-way street between marketers and consumers.
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"What Google wants to do with these trailers is SERVE EVERY TV COMMERCIAL ON THE PLANET because only they will be able to do it efficiently."
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Everything Counts (in large amounts)
In this essay we will look at some of the ways that ideas about architecture are affected by electronic communication and the culture that surrounds it.
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Rupert Murdoch On the Media Microchunk
"We're downloading minute segmentsâ€â€original "mobisodes"â€â€of the Fox hit "24." Soon we'll be downloading the funniest joke of the week in "Family Guy." People will be sitting in bars and holding up their phones and laughing. It'll be a pretty serious pi
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The Most Important Statistic of them All
"So, what is the “personal killer app� that Karp is looking for? It’s recommendation systems, just like Netflix. They’re out modeling where YOU pay attention, what media YOU want, not the media THEY try to sell you."
Bubble 2.0 Is a Bubble in Media
"There’s a bubble because the tech industry is trying to be the new media industry, and very few people in the tech industry understand what’s really happening to the economics of media."
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Attention, Media, Value and Economics
"Building on the debate about the "attention economy" initiated by Michael Goldhaber and Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, I introduce the notion of valuing process, i.e. the process by which potential value can be translated in an economy."
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Draft mandate for the Media 2.0 Workgroup
Very interesting overview of the current state of media. Choice quote: "Simply put, advertising needs to move from ‘interruption of experience’ to ‘enhancement of experience’. An unprecedented cultural, strategic and creative challenge."
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When It Comes to Blogs, There Aren't Enough Words
"Think about how we use 'blog' in conversation and compare that with our more evolved slang for print publications. Nobody calls Sports Illustrated a 'group magazine.' And we don't call everything we read on paper a 'print.'"
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Most obnoxious line of an otherwise good article: "In the existential hall of mirrors of the new mass technoculture, what goes around comes around, like plot points in a Charlie Kaufman screenplay."
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From Dan: A Letter to the Bayosphere Community
Dan Gillmor explains why and how Bayosphere failed as a citizen journalism project.
How Old Media could take back its share of search's ad bounty
Steven Johnson explains why too many books -- and not enough gaming -- rots your brain.
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The Economy of Unbundled Advertising
Terry Heaton digs deeper into the unbundling of media, this time specifically discussing the advertising opportunities.
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Rex over at Fimoculous gives his yearly media/technology predictions. My favorite: "The New York Times Sunday Styles section will write a trend piece about the trend of trend pieces. It will then implode."
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Media gets messy in 2006 with experimentation
"The media plan of the future will look like the tiles of your bathroom floor ... a number of component pieces fitted together very precisely, but lots of pieces."
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Why Big Media Just Doesn't Get Mobile (And Many Other Things)
"The fundamental problem is that big media doesn't understand that there's just one big content market, not thousands of tiny little differentiated ones."
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An interview with Rex Sorgatz of fimoculous -- king of all lists
"First off, we live in a culture where events fly by so fast that history never has time to establish itself. (VH1's "Best Week Ever" is the personification of this -- a week is as far back as we can see)."
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"You're saying I have to lose control of my medium to gain it? Get outta here!"
"Put a fork in it; the blockbuster is done."
"The new effort -- again citing Haque -- is to use our resources to generate the "Snowball Effect," something that costs much less money and takes advantage of the structure and systems of new media, especially the Internet's long tail."
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"Why are we doing this? Because we want to foster innovation, and because we want to see your ideas about new ways of displaying news and information on the Web."
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"Welcome to a new "Wild West", where formats, delivery and opportunity are now only limited by the creativity and imagination of the content distribution channel and the advertiser."
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Reasons Bloggers Hate the Mainstream Media.
McSweeney's: "Bloggers got stood up at prom. By the MSM."
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With an enviable track record in newspapers, books, TV and film, the News Corp. chief pushes his chips toward his latest passion: the Internet.
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"On the occasion of today's gruesome statistics on the continuing fall of newspapers, here's an updated look at mainstream entertainment and media in decline"
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"A global TV guide, Torrent tracking, your favourites and recommendations plus an innovative social layer to hang it off. You want it, we want it, let's build it."
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The Remarkable Opportunities of Unbundled Media
As part of the Media in a Postmodern World series, Terry Heaton thinks about the opportunities that await as media continues to move in an unbundled direction.
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when media becomes culture: rethinking copyright issues
"The RIAA (and other such organizations) have been so successful at getting their media distributed that they have become culture. In turn, this means that they are the building blocks in which communication occurs."
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I hear this a fair amount myself, no necessarily from media people, but just randomly. It always feels a bit bizarre.
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Nick Denton: "The whole point about blogs is that they're not part of big media. Consolidation defeats the purpose. It's way too early. Like a decade too early."
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"Jon Stewart is very funny and on his cult US television show he's a rare scourge of the rich and powerful, especially Bush and his court. Gary Younge puts it to him, is he really angry with America, or is he a man on a mission for the next joke?"
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when mainstream media cite blogs
"There's something funny about watching mainstream media pick up their reporting habits from bloggers. I wonder if we get misspellings next?"
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"The value is no longer in maintaining an exclusive hold on things. The value is no longer in owning content or distribution. The value is in relationships. The value is in trust."
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"We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a Special Report from Jon Stewart."
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"On a landscape that seems to be transforming itself with every new technology, marketing tactic, or investment strategy, businesses rush to embrace change by trading in their competencies or shifting their focus, altogether."
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"What we're witnessing is viral contagion - the beginnings of what some hope will spawn an epidemic of suicide attacks."
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By buying Web player Intermix Media and its runaway hit social-networking site, the media conglomerate gains on the Internet giants
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Internet's new wave proves hard to catch
The press wants to get bloggers on its side, but a US experiment shows it may not be easy, writes Rafael Behr
"DeVigal pointed to the website of Noah Brier as a place where he goes to keep an eye on trends in this developing field, so I’ll just pass on that reference before I run."
Contest gets the lowdown on what makes readers forward links
The Contagious Media Showdown sought who could create the most popular Web site in 22 days. While winners such as Forget-Me-Not Panties seem obvious now -- their winning strategies are not.
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Five subtle editorial changes at PBS
5ives: "Sesame Street abruptly changes name to The Big Bird Factor"
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Public Broadcasting Targeted By House
"A House subcommittee voted yesterday to sharply reduce the federal government's financial support for public broadcasting, including eliminating taxpayer funds that help underwrite such popular children's educational programs as "Sesame Street" . . ."
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NYTimes: "Alienation is the only intelligent response to a political culture that insults our intelligence."
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How Do the Paparazzi Sell Their Pics?
An introduction to the celebrity photo game.
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Piracy is Good? Part Two: The New Laws of Television
"The forces that cry "Piracy!" today will be congratulating themselves on their "sound business practices" tomorrow. There's money to be made; there is a viable economic model."
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Nature.com: "A team of scientists from Hungary and the United States has found that the majority of online news items have a lifetime of just 36 hours."
"If you control what is acceptable to say, to print, to show, you control the ability of people to form opinion, especially dissenting opinion."
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All about Salon's site pass
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Is pop culture dumbing us down or smartening us up?
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Is Rupert Murdoch right to predict the end of newspapers as we now know them?
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Paul Graham: "You can't see the fingerprints of PR firms all over the articles, as you can in so many print publications-- which is one of the reasons, though they may not consciously realize it, that readers trust bloggers more than Business Week."
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Contagious Media Showdown : Workshops
An Eyebeam conference all about viral media
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LATimes profile of Boing Boing/Wired's Xeni Jardin
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Terry Heaton: "Here's where the paradox comes in. One doesn't find influence in the URL world without providing a service to others, for it is the linkers (the bottom) who provide the influence, not those receiving the links."
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Ten reasons why Mark Cuban is today's Long Tail hero
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Great quotes of McLuhan
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SMS, E-mail Announce Pope's Death
Wired: "It took just minutes for the Vatican to alert the world's media of Pope John Paul's death -- using text messages and e-mail so the 2,000-year-old Church could meet the new demands of real-time news."
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What should we make of blogging? Is it simply the latest internet fad, a truly democratic tool for change or, as some have suggested, a vehicle for mob rule? David Reid finds blogs are rocking the boat both East and West.
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Paper Spends More Time With Its Family
Design Observer: "Just as photography freed painting to do what it did bestâ€â€be paint on canvas rather than a "window on the world"â€â€so computers are freeing paper to be white stuff with marks on it. Paper is getting to "spend more time with its family"
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MediaPost Communications is an integrated publishing and content company whose mission is to provide an array of resources to super-serve media planners and buyers.
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Slate: Will somebody please help the Los Angeles Times' David Shaw get a grip?
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"It looks as if blogging will be very good for our brains. It holds enormous potential in education, and it could take societal communication and creative exchange onto a whole new level."
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It's the Content, Not the Source
Wired News: "But the way for EFF attorneys to win this case would be to attack Apple for its definition of a trade secret. What exactly does Apple lose by the publication of Asteroid's specs and a diagram?"
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What is it? And how has it affected he media?
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The Medium is Having A Massage
Ahhh . . . postmodern McLuhan humor at it's best . . . almost as good as the old postmodern semicolon joke . . .
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The global home for grassroots media
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Anil Dash: "some of the common steps of evolution within a blogging community"
Non-traditional media gain ground, consumers
USA Today: "One of the consequences is that, increasingly, citizens can no longer agree on basic facts "because everyone is consuming their own kind of personal mix of media."
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“Media Multi-tasking� Changing the Amount and Nature of Young People’s Media Use
Press release from the Kaiser Family Foundation
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Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds
The study, Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds, examined media use among a nationally representative sample of more than 2,000 3rd through 12th graders who completed detailed questionnaires, including nearly 700 self-selected participants w
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The Internet Revolution has Little to do with Technology
It's all about ideas
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Awesome list of AP feeds by word and category
A fantastic article from the Wall Street Journal that clearly describes the current state of blogging vs. mainstream media
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Non-Blogger Fired For Blogging!
Are blogs getting just as bad as the mainstream media they attack?
Here are MP3s of the near impossible-to-find recording of the Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
'05 Seen As Year Of 'Accountability,' 'Creativity,' And On-Demand Media
Some predictions for the 2005 media world
2005 Predictions - The Coming Year of Hyperfragmentation
MediaPost makes some predictions for the media business in 2005
TrackBack and Pingback supported by CNET News.com
CNET adopts TrackBack
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Free Press is a non-profit organization working to involve the public in media policymaking and to craft policies for a more democratic media system.
Oct 2004 State of the blogosphere: Big Media vs. Blogs
There's still some problems with incoming links, like FoxNews.com, are they authoritative or are people linking to them because of their lack of authority?
Conspiracy theory or truth?
Some interesting media studies sources
The New Business Model Is the Old Business Model, Sorta...
Why do traditional journalists have so much trouble dealing with 'new media'?
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Howard Rheingold applies McLuhan's rules to mobile media
OJR article: On the Wild, Woolly Internet,Old Ethics Rules Do Apply
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Who does the blogosphere trust?
Why Googleworld will beat Murdoch
Tribes, Attraction and Blogs in a Postmodern World
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Consumer is King of U.S. Media
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List of blogs for media outlets
"My Beef With Big Media" by Ted Turner
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We Don't Need No Stinkin' Login
The Next Generation of Journalists Will Start as Bloggers
'Everybody now is a member of the media'
Wired News: Searching for The New York Times
Guardian Top 100 Media Power List
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Video diary from beyond the grave
Anchorman and the problem of television
>> Rhythm Science by Paul D. Miller <<
Just ordered a copy
newmediazero - from the New Media Age Group
User Registration Need Not Be Inevitable
BBC NEWS | Technology | Net pioneer predicts web future
Agencies fear a future where the viewers control TV advertising - News - www.smh.com.au