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I can remember seeing the emergence of broadcast television, but I can’t tell what it did to us because I became that which watched broadcast television. William Gibson the Paris Review 197 [1981] And somehow I knew that the notional space behind all the computer screens would be one single universe. idem In the cities, […]

Jeff Jarvis makes suggestions to news media: …the best thing they could do is to enable and protect the voice of the public. They could curate, train, promote, and collaborate with new people using new tools in new ways, for example. They could establish platforms that make that possible and networks that help make it […]

A very timely conversation about anonymity and identity has been going on since Saturday. It started with a discussion on Twitter between Mathew Ingram and Howard Owens. Mathew has written a great post about it, then Steve Buttry added important points on his own blog. I say “timely” because suddenly a lot of people are […]

Steve Buttry has begun to recruit his staff. He is the new Director of Community Engagement at Allbritton Communications, preparing the launch of a new Web site in the DC area, one of the most expected new project of newsmedia on the Web. Steve Buttry has just be named last month Editor of the year […]

I have begun to publish my work media machina, 10 years in the making: the quest for business models for news on the Web. Your comments and suggestions are welcome. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it’s missing. Get Flash […]

In his new blog, Steph Lagrange reports a conversation we had last April about my work: Proximity (i.e. “always available”) is another key concept to Bruno. Whereas in traditional media the distance between the ad and the store can be miles and/or days away, on the Web the distance has narrowed down to a mere […]

All mass media would benefit from a community of their readers and most are strategically well placed to create one but most of them don’t seem to see why they should do it. Jeff Jarvis writes today about Rupert Murdoch’s strategy to attack the New-York Times’ brand. Independently from the Times’ situation, Jarvis’ diagnostic could […]

In the last issue of The New York Review of Books, Russell Baker draws a dark portrait of the state of newspapers. It’s a fascinating read, if a little depressing: “The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. It […]