Hyped as the ideal way to consume media in all forms — magazines, newspapers, video, movies, books, broadcasts, photos, games — the iPad arrived as a game changer. Beyond the hype and hysteria, it also delivers business tools, spreadsheets, collaboration tools and specialty apps for almost everything. They balance an emerging consumer platform for knowledge […]
Charlton Heston channels Moses. Steve Jobs assumes a higher authority. Crazy guys throw down an iPad at batting practice. All this and more in The Throwdown Video, a preview of Tabula Rasa. Check it out on the program page and on YouTube. Dale PeskinDale is co-founder emeritus of We Media. www.wemedia.com
I was wrong. There are at least nine people outside of Apple who have the iPad. One is Stephen Colbert, who has the best review yet. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Why we’re convening Tabula Rasa? The iPad is more than a gadget or a punch line. You get to show us why it really matters.
My friend Newsasaurus, the found-art sculpture that resides in my courtyard, is puzzled (note the quizzical look in his portrait at the bottom). His living cousin, The Newsosaur, has reflected poorly on the citizen response to an otherwise endangered species. The Newsosaur affirms his namesake in a blog post that “non-profits can’t possibly save the […]
Fifty years ago, the memo that launched the space program and put man on the moon contained just a few, clear paragraphs. The U.S. government’s plan to expand the nation’s broadband is 376 pages – and that’s just the beta. There’s a story here about how the adoption of public policy hasn’t kept pace with a global, always-on world.
A new survey is certain to stir the Clash of the Myths. An overwhelming majority of reporters and editors now depend on social media to research stories, according to a new study by The George Washington University and Cision intelligence services. Among the journalists surveyed, 89% said they turn to blogs for story research, 65% […]
If you can’t get the facts right, make up a story. Nothing is too shameless for digital marketers.
Late last year William Dean Singleton, the CEO of MediaNews, announced he had identified the problem behind years of steep decline in the news industry. “It’s a good old fashioned economic recession,” Singleton said. In the absence of motion, sooner or later the problem will be recession. Download the report (PDF) Dale PeskinDale is co-founder […]
There’s a story going around that touts the Internet as a perpetual money machine. It goes something like this: many pieces of old content on the digital-now network have aggregate residual value that, over time, exceed present value of fresh content, which spikes and subsides quickly. The story is called the Long Tail. It is […]