Newspapers are failing, and my friend and advisor Alan Webber knows why: the problem isn’t technology, shifting business models, the rise of social networks or all the other excuses newspaper executives like to talk about. The problem is lousy products. From Alan’s Nov. 13, 2006 post: What’s happened, I think, is that newspapers have stopped […]
Diplomats and various internet influentials talked about internet censorship, diversity and access at a UN-sponsored gathering in Athens this week. Do you care? Do your usual media providers keep you up-to-date on who’s controlling the internet and what they’d like to do with it? Given the emerging ubiquity and necessity of digital communications, I continue […]
iFOCOS is brand spankin’ new, but the more things change, the more they stay the same … Andrew and Dale continue their globetrotting. Two weeks ago, they were in Melbourne, Australia, to facilitate an internal conference for the Australian Broadcasting Corp. Read about it here. Then Andrew stopped in San Francisco to give a keynote […]
Dale and I were in Melbourne this week to facilitate an internal conference for the Australian Broadcasting Corp. Internal, yes – but blogged by the ABC and open to further comment here. Our role was to inform, incite and moderate conversations about the future of the ABC, which is Australia’s government-funded public broadcaster. It was […]
iFOCOS with the University of Southern California will Innovate Across a New World of Media RESTON, VA, October 4, 2006 — Two leading media analysts announced today the formation of a new non-profit institute, iFOCOS, the Institute for the Connected Society. iFOCOS convenes thought leaders across disciplines to understand and use the new expanding media […]
Along with setting up iFOCOS – and trust me, there’s lots of paperwork – we’ve been working on plans for the next We Media conference, which is February 8 – 9, 2007, in Miami. We have the beginnings of a program in place, and registration is open. We’ll be adding more details in coming weeks. […]