Associated Press recently said that excerpts from its stories should not be used by bloggers unless there was specific commentary about the excerpt. Dan Farber sums things up nicely here: Welcome to the Web refactory, AP
The AP or any other source of so-called original content that is built partly on preexisting content easily accessible on […]
Associated Press caused a blogostorm when it instituted a “fair use” policy that was anything but fair. I disagree with that policy but I do understand the frustration of being a media professional/blogger and recovering some of the value of my work. Most bloggers have a day job but I don’t and it is tough […]
There were lots of great comments on one of my posts this week on a job ad from the future:
Wanted: Chief Marketing Officer for a Web 2.0 startup based in San Francisco. Candidate must have a blog with a PageRank of at least 5 and/or at least 800 followers on Twitter and/or 1500 friends on […]
The Wall Street Journal is moving to News Corp’s HQ in midtown Manhattan on 1211 Sixth Avenue, just a stone’s throw from the Financial Time’s US HQ on 1330 Sixth Ave. This is a long circuitous journey back to the heart of the US media capital for Robert Thomson, the former head of FT […]
I’m spending much of Wednesday and Thursday at Stanford University at the , who leads the Innovation Journalism program at Stanford. I’m speaking on a panel on Thursday afternoon.
That’s exactly what I’ve been seeing and saying the past few years. The media industry is where there is an enormous amount of innovation occurring - and […]
Here is Mike describing the project on his blog
In just a few days from now I will join the four staff I have already hired in Ole Bangalore, and supervise the introduction of the IT Examiner to the global scene.
There will also be an assault and battery of several freelancers contributing to the mix […]
Andrew Finlayson, VP and News Director Fox News Chicago writes:
Think of it as a little experiment in what some journalism might become.
We are working on a website called www.LiveNewsCameras.com The concept is simple, let people watch news as it happens anywhere in the world…raw, unedited on your computer at work or home.
We think it will […]
Today Cox Enterprises announced it had acquired Adify, a leading ad network, for $300 million in cash. I spoke with Joelle Kaufman, VP of marketing at Adify, and Rodney Mayers assistant VP of interactive media at Cox.
Mr Mayers characterized the acquisition as being strategic to Cox and that Adify would continue to operate as an […]
