It’s a widely used open-source blog platform with enormous potential for future growth and evolution – and some think it’s a viable alternative to Facebook-style social networking. (It’s running this site). Analysis: News companies remain painfully focused on their internal woes and remarkably disengaged from investments in innovative new opportunities. The New York Times Co., […]
You could and probably should dive into Jeff Jarvis’s reports from this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, where the theme is Innovation. I found his report on an exchange between Al Gore and Google Foundation head Larry Brilliant extraordinary in revealing the amoral flaw of Google’s famous "do no evil" mantra. Moderator Thomas Friedman […]
Google is trying to grab a bigger chunk of local advertising by expanding its network of resellers – third parties that incorporate sales of Google AdWords into their offerings. See: Official Google Blog: AdWords and local markets Andrew NachisonAndrew Nachison is founder of We Media. He lives in Reston, Virginia. www.nach.com
Tribune Company is a U.S. media conglomerate that owns newspapers and television stations coast to coast, including the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. Tribune acquired the LA Times in 2000 when it purchased Times Mirror Co. for $8 billion. All of Tribune, including the Times Mirror assets, is now worth $3.8 billion, according […]
Three Israeli journalists who traveled to Lebanon and Syria are under investigation by the Israeli police for travel to "enemy" countries. One of them, Lisa Goldman, has been part of the informal We Media community for some time. She participated in the 2006 We Media Global Forum in London, where she rather bravely challenged Al […]
In: Knowledge@Wharton Dec. 12, 2007 Link: Social Marketing: How Companies Are Generating Value from Customer Input – Knowledge@Wharton "What we ended up building was not just entertainment, but also an area where mothers can dialogue with each other," said Ted Moon, director of digital marketing at Sprint Nextel, at an October summit on new media […]
Another great group of participants is coming together for We Media Miami, Feb. 26-28, 2008. You’ll find registration and other details at: www.wemediamiami.org Here are some of the people we’re expecting to see there: Robert Bole, SVP, Media, One Economy Corporation Thomas Bosco, VP, Video Sales, FOX Interactive Media Jim Brady, Executive Editor, WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive […]
Are you crunchy? No, that’s not code for your political leanings, or your eating habits, or the length of your armpit hair. Get with the times, for they are a’changin. It’s code for your digital-business-award-worthiness. Of course. Maybe you’ve already won a Webby; or a Bloggy; maybe you’ve made it to the Always On Top […]
One of the roles of media is to help people understand the world so we can make informed decisions – and then take action. The daily flood of news and information from all the big media institutions we love and love to hate is one approach to learning, sifting, filtering and evaluating all this information. […]
The daily newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia, announced on Oct. 23, in an anonymous editorial, that its anonymous editorial section will no longer endorse candidates for the U.S. presidency. "Presidential elections are not our beat," The Virginian-Pilot editorial said. "Our time is best spent on local and state problems, or those national ones that bear directly […]