FCC: regulation 101
BusinessWeek’s Catherine Yang has written a great overview of the challenges facing the FCC during 2005, in the latest edition. Michael Powell’s likely successor is tipped to be the current FCC Commissioner, Kevin Martin, who…
January 2005
Financing digital content
The New York Times summarizes big wig discussions at DAVOS about how digital content will be financed. Not much consensus here beyond acknowledging that broadband, PVRs, blogging and file sharing are affecting revenue streams from…
Aljazeera named top five brand
Online magazine, BrandChannel, has voted the Arabic news channel, Aljazeera as one of the world’s top five brands. Apple takes the top slot, beating Google, last year’s winner, with IKEA and Starbucks completing the top…
Andy Lark’s keynote
Andy Lark has kindly published his keynote from the New Communications Forum. If you want an insight into how communications is developing in the light of blogging, wikis, RSS, podcasting etc, then this is a…
The future of search rides on relevance
CNET covers the Cyberposium event about search, concluding that its future relies on relevance. This much we know. The key point is that the challenge here is not a technical one. "(Personalization) isn’t an area…
The future of media
Two contrasting views of the future of media here. The first from EPIC (taken from Andy Lark’s keynote at the New Communications Forum), which predicts a disruptive impact of new technologies on news distribution and…
Analyst bloggers
Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion draws attention to Tekrati’s new directory of analyst bloggers. A useful resource for those wanting to track particular fields. There’s also a good Special Report from Tekrati about The State…
How to pitch bloggers
Some excellent advice on how to pitch bloggers coming out of the New Communications Forum. Tom Foremski reports on this session by Alice Marshall of Presto Vivace. Required reading for all those interested in this…
Client staff churn
A sure sign that tech PR is picking up is the increased competition for staff over the last six months. Last year the crunch was for more junior staff with one to three years’ experience….
Google Video search
Find all those broadcast clips on-line via Google Video search. Well, if you’re based in the US. And if you got the coverage on the currently indexed channels like PBS and Fox News. It’s not…