TV as We Know It is Dead: Shift to Web-based Video Costs Producers 88% of Ad...
Can you say “Doomed”? Apparently, a report called “And Now for the News,” written by Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research, came out this week, and it’s got both Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas...
View ArticleNBC Throws Audience Measurement Methodologies at Olympics to See What Sticks
Meanwhile, Google whistles nervously, hoping nobody thinks to raise the issue of AdSense clickfraud again… There’s a yawning gulf in New Media. It stretches from the pittance that most media creators...
View ArticleNBC Throws Audience Measurement Methodologies at Olympics to See What Sticks
Meanwhile, Google whistles nervously, hoping nobody thinks to raise the issue of AdSense clickfraud again… There’s a yawning gulf in New Media. It stretches from the pittance that most media creators...
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On the Way Home from Kazakhstan – Eagles and the Gobi Desert
I’m done with my training sessions for journalists in Kazakhstan, and this trip really stretched the boundaries of my knowledge. These are the issues that I was asked to address: 1. DDoS attacks that...
View ArticleHulu and Delve Networks: We Still
…HTML5? Not so much… In a move certain to cause much gleeful cackling and dry-washing of hands at Adobe HQ, Hulu and Delve announced that they are sticking with Flash, rather than making the...
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Print Schadenfreude: TV Up Next to the Chopping Block
A collective snicker/groan radiated out through the interwebs today with the publication of this AdAge piece on how video is like the news business was in 1998, as legions of print journalists who have...
View ArticleCNN International segment on Murdoch, phone-hacking & tabloid tactics
The good folks at CNN asked me to appear on Backstory” to talk about the News of the World’s phone-hacking scandal. I tried to oblige them with some insights onto why this kind of scandal keeps...
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The Oscars on Social Media: International Audiences Yawn, US Bloggers Snark
Live-Blogging the Oscars and Tracking the Tweet Clouds I was hoping that the real-time geo-Tweet maps would show something interesting in and around Los Angeles during the Oscars telecast. No such...
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Satellite TV dishes are common on the rooftops of Addis Ababa
I met with the CEO of the Fana Broadcasting network this past week. We talked about the phenomenal growth occurring here in Ethiopia, and what that is going to mean for the traditional media here....
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Teaching video techniques at Addis Ababa University
My students wanted to make sure to capture the conversation around the roundtable discussion we had on the subject of press freedom, so they set up the bagttered (but still serviceable) cameras outside...
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