Sunday, November 28, 2010

The Real Message From Apple Apps

Image representing iPhone as depicted in Crunc...Image via CrunchBaseThe real message from iPhone and iPad apps is not that the web is dead, like one magazine put it recently, but that people are willing to pay. Steve Jobs dove into the world of music piracy and created the iTunes store. People were willing to pay, it is just that they like the digital format better, he concluded.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Events: November 29 - December 10

Old Media, New Media: Man Bit Dog, Dog Bit Man


That is an old dictum from journalism school, that man (sic) bit dog is news, but dog bit man is not. How new media has changed that and turned it upside down! If a dog bit man, and that man is your friend, that is not only news, that is big news. If that man walked his dog, and sent out a tweet about it, that is still news, to you. How things have changed!