Media Vent
Jargon alert! How finely tuned is your business development B.S. detector?
The term "Business Development" in our companies has always been an odd area painted with broad strokes that cover many parts of the publishing business. It is, of course, in its simplest basis, about developing new revenue streams where none have existed before. Read More >>
Profit from Publishing!
How will media convergence affect the production and distribution of news?
I thought you all might be interested in this brief interview, conducted online by Jenna Batchelor, a student at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Read More >>
Pub Talk
Is Yahoo asking itself the right questions?
After the news broke about Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr, I paid a visit to Yahoo.Com (it has been quite a while) to get a sense of what all these aggressive offscreen moves might mean for Yahoo as a brand. What is the face Yahoo hopes to turn to the public? Read More >>
Publishers' Dojo
Like practically everything else in publishing, licensing content is changing
I'm blogging from the Worldwide Media Marketplace (WMM), an annual event hosted by the FIPP, the worldwide magazine media association. As the only event in the world whose focus is entirely on international licensing, syndication, and joint ventures, it's worth getting on the calendar Read More >>
B2B Beat
ABM Annual Conference Greatest Hits
Much has been written about ABM merging under the umbrella of SIIA. But much more was going on during the annual meeting of the 100+-year-old Association of Business Information & Media Companies a fortnight ago in Florida. Read More >>
The Digital Domain
To Pay or Not to Pay ... That is the Changing Question
In an era, where citizen "journalists," aggregators and content farms threaten to turn the information media companies produce into a commodity, the importance of protecting premium content is greater than ever.
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The Digital Market
What do you think of the new mobile Google Play?
A blog came out recently on the redesigned Google Play for mobile. It appears Michael Siliski, group product manager for Google Play been reading this blog. Read More >>
The Postal Pundit
Climbing Out Of The Rubble Of Sandy
The entire Eastern seaboard, but now mostly New York and New Jersey, has been struggling through the aftermath of Sandy, one of the strongest storms to ever hit the country. At one point 8 million people were without power and the flooding reached into Manhattan as far up as 23rd Street. More than 50,000 families remain homeless and the process of demolishing between 200 and 500 homes on the coast is set to begin. Read More >>
Everything Publishing
A New Way To Be a Player
If you want to increase affinity with your brand, grow traffic (up to 20x for some sites) and retention, create new online advertising inventory and lead generation, read on. Read More >>
Byte Back
What Is “Interactive” Anyway? (Part 2)
The real question, it turns out, is less about embedded multimedia than it is about personalization, relevance and immediacy of content. Read More >>
