Tag: media

My Conversation with Steven Waldman, Senior Advisor, FCC

By | July 26, 2011 at 6:48 pm | 2 comments
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“Assistant to the Chairman of the FCC on the Future of Media” is without question one of the coolest titles I’ve ever seen. Even cooler that it’s the title of my friend and former colleague Steve Waldman. Steve and I worked together on the influential internet site Beliefnet.  After 10 years with Beliefnet he recently [...]

Running Media

By | March 28, 2011 at 4:40 am | Post a comment

This month marks my 10th anniversary as a runner. In March of 2001 while walking around a mall in New York with my family I wandered into a running store. On a whim I bought a pair of running shoes. At the time I played tennis regularly and was reasonably active. I had bad knees [...]

The Media Company of the Future

By | June 9, 2010 at 12:31 am | 2 comments

At some point “New Media” is no longer new. “Emerging Media” emerges. Describing the revolutionary trends that have been driving the media industry over the last decade as either ”new” or “emerging” is inaccurate and misleading. Media companies have either embraced and harnessed digital platforms and technology or they haven’t.  The Internet revolution has resulted in 4 types of media companies today: The Dead, The [...]

The Media-Application Era Has Arrived

By | April 17, 2010 at 10:46 pm | 1 comment

 The first phase of online media was defined by “Reach”.Value was based on unique visitor reach and the page views generated. The second phase was defined by  ”Search”,  where value was derived by optimizing content to drive search results. We are now officially in the “Media-Application” era, where value is created by engaging audiences around applications of content and services that become [...]

The 9 New Rules of Media

By | August 14, 2009 at 1:58 am | Post a comment

Over the last 12 months the state of the economy and the impact of the recession have been topics in virtually every meeting I’ve been in. The discussions have ranged from detailed analysis by “leading” economists (one in particular at a meeting in March was thrilled when at the end of his 60 slide deck now predicting a decade long slide [...]