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Thinking about how Social Media gets defined and what it means

January 7, 2010

Brian Solis wrote a reflective post today that strayed from his typical forward-looking perspective to reflect on how the term “Social Media” has morphed to encompass all kinds of web activity.
He harkens back to a definition of social media that was developed by a group of leading thinkers a couple of years ago. That [...]

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Hey, smart folks: Help this young lady out!

January 4, 2010

Think it’s tough navigating your career, particularly if you’re in media or marketing? Imagine what it would be like to be in school, training for a job you’ve always wanted, only to realize that that job is vanishing before your very eyes.
One enterprising young student is in the middle of trying to sort out [...]

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10 years past, 10 years forward

December 23, 2009

10 doesn’t sound like a big number, but when you start looking back over a decade, 10 years of an ever-expanding and innovating world, 10 years feels huge and unwieldy.
At the beginning of this past decade (the first decade of the 21th Century…how cool!) I was working with an Internet company called Themestream, started by [...]

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Post #336

December 21, 2009

On January 4, I posted the first of more than 335 posts published in 2009 on this blog.
That first post was a Welcome and Introduction. I laid out my intention to  some of the best thinking about the economy, media and marketing that I encountered as I travelled around the country doing the things that [...]

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Breaking down barriers means breaking down media business models

November 19, 2009

Don’t be put off by the title of Jonathan Knee’s book The Curse of the Moguls. If you’re interested in the underlying dynamics of the media business and are curious about how value will be created in the future, this is a very insightful read.
Take the Internet, for instance.
Whenever someone suggests to you that [...]

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Applying Game Theory to the Media Business Model

November 9, 2009

The question of whether the media business is driven by content or distribution has been a fundamental issue in media business strategy over the past two decades.
In the past, acquiring the capital in order to create the means of distribution gave companies that wherewithal to subsidize content and aggregate audience.
In the 1980′s, with the development [...]

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If only I knew when you were getting ready to buy…

October 19, 2009

My colleague Todd Dubner has posted two interesting articles on his blog, Being Present, over the past two weeks.
Both look at the dynamics of competing in online markets that have flat data as the core consumer information proposition. (My friend Doug Manoni of SourceMedia draws a distinction between flat data, which is easily available [...]

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