April 18 2009

LINKS | Down with the AP?

There’s been a growing feeling that the AP is not our friend in the media industry, but this week, that feeling seemed to bubble over. We’ve got some rough numbers to show that they’re not helping us, and with the rise of ESPN local sites, the AP is rapidly loosing it’s marketplace. I don’t know if I’m ready to sign their death sentence yet, they do seem to have some smart people working for ‘em (I look to the New Model for News study and their iPhone app). Yet, it’s painfully obvious (after the youtube fiasco) that the AP is a classic case of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing.

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April 14 2009

LINKS | Generation Y has Inherited the Media

“Maybe, just maybe, the existing model for generating, distributing and monetizing content could benefit from a Ctrl-Alt-Delete reboot.”- Can the Statusphere Save Journalism?
It’s been two weeks since my last one of these, which is in part due to laziness, and in part due to my wanting to get a good list going on a contentious topic: Generation Y needs to take over the media.I’m increasingly convinced that the ‘old media’ model is broken largely because the old folks just don’t get it. Not to say that there aren’t people in 30s-70s who don’t get ‘it,’ just that there are too few, too few in a position of power, and too few who get ‘it’ enough.

These are my links for March 29th through April 13th

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March 29 2009

LINKS | Generation Y takes on the world

Last week has lead me this generalization: Generation Y fundamentally understands the internet, and therefore the current state of the world, in a way that older generations just never will. It’s a generalization and not a maxim, because as folks like John Bryne, Bryan Murley, and even Steve Jobs remind me that us youngin’s aren’t the only ones who get it, we’re just in the majority. This post contains my links for March 21st through March 27th.

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March 6 2009

LINKS | The Rocky Dies and the Daily Emerald Strikes

So, I’ll be on vacation (woot!) for the coming week which means a couple of things:
  1. I’ll have limited Internet access, so don’t expect a my LINKS post to be very long/exist next week.
  2. I’ll have limited Internet access and don’t plan on being able to get any work done. At all. Not too sure how I feel about that.
  3. My Thursday resolution to try out TweetDeck for twitter is gonna have to wait a while.
On a similar note, if any of you have any requests on how to better lay this post out or better formating or etc… lemme know.Here we go: these are my links for February 26th through March 5th. Continue reading →