On Monday, the Cambridge, MA City Council adopted a policy order recognizing that a climate emergency exists and directing the City Manager to “direct the appropriate city departments to increase the City’s responses to a scale proportionate to the emergency and consistent with the city’s own Climate Protection goals for 2010 and beyond.” (The full […]
A new revenue stream for SeeclickFix and its media partners is emerging: SeeClickFix is currently hosting the SeeClickFix widget in sites like Boston.com and Philly.com and we are looking for other partners to host our free widget. The tool provides much of the SeeClickFix functionality including the ability to view and report non-emergency issues. You […]
We new that tweeting was hot when we saw the usage in at the conference in Miami, but did not see the relevance to SeeClickFix at the time. Fred Wilson from AVC.com has shown us the light: On May 5th Fred Wilson Posted an article on his blog avc.com which suggested that it would be […]
Earlier this year, our annual We Media poll with Zogby Interactive showed deep dissatisfaction with newspapers and the leadership of news media. Now, two additional reports show how deep the dissatisfaction runs. On a one to 100 scale, newspapers scored a 63 in the American Customer Satisfaction Index quarterly survey. That put them behind the […]
New search engine Wolfram|Alpha launched this week with the Star Trekkian goal to “make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.” Just what the world needs most. Here’s an example from its visual gallery of examples. Really cleared things up for me. Dale PeskinDale is co-founder emeritus of We Media. www.wemedia.com
When Andrew and I framed the concept of We Media back in 2002, we adopted a phrase that was intentionally ambiguous. Our intent was to inform and to be informed by a societal movement around media that respected and impacted everyone. It didn’t matter if you worked in offices, owned presses and managed big businesses […]
From our friends at NakedMedia, tune in May 19 for a webcast on how marketers and media producers are measuring their audiences. What: The Battle Over Media Measurement With: Todd Juenger from TiVo and Jon Gibs from Nielsen Online Date: May 19 Time: 12pm ET Details here. Register and post questions here. Andrew NachisonAndrew Nachison […]
A few weeks back Amazon got blasted by gay rights groups when it was discovered that gay and lesbian book titles were delisted from its site. Amazon claimed an internal glitch caused the problem and declined to offer additional details. A spokesperson was quoted saying “This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a […]
Each day brings another story that publishers are lurching to the business model that will save newspapers: charging for online content. Yet, each day brings news of additional buyouts and layoffs in newsrooms. Sometime soon, the publishers are going to figure out the next problem: they neither have enough good content that’s worth selling nor […]