Oprah Winfrey Network is Toast – Verizon Could Have Saved Her
photo of Oprah from The Daily Mail from Twitter, Tweeted by Oprah (so I hope there are no rights issues here) The Daily Mail, the UK newspaper everyone loves to read, announced today that The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)...
Read moreIs Facebook Finished? Here Comes Web 3.0
About a million years ago, I owned a house in Philadelphia. The New York Times had just bought VNI, which was based in Philly, and we had to move to NY. (No great tragedy there). The real estate market...
Read moreAnd now… Amazon TV
I like books. I buy a lot of books I used to go down to Borders to buy my books, which was, frankly, a pain. They had limited shelf space; they often didn’t have what I wanted. Then,...
Read moreDraw Nothing – except a few conclusions – the fall of Zynga?
In the early 90s I formed my first company, Video News International – VNI. The idea was to give small video cameras to freelance journalists around the world and get rid of the need for crews and fly-in reporters...
Read moreMobile Video Set To Surpass Online Video This Year
VIDBLOG reports that by the end of this year the mobile video ad market will surpass the online non-mobile (what should we call it?) market. This is only surprising in how quickly this shift to mobile has come about....
Read moreNew Numbers and an Old Economist
Joseph Schumpeter was an an early 20th Century Hungarian- American economist. He popularized the term ‘creative destruction‘ – that is, “the role of new companies in making innovations that interrupt the circular flow. New firms “do not arise out of...
Read moreiPhone Millionaire Goes on Presale at Amazon
It’s finally here… almost… The book that can change your life (or mine at least). iPhone Milionaire: Six Weeks To Change Your Life Learn how you can use the video functions on your iPhone to take control of your...
Read moreAn Apple A Day.. or more..
I was up at 5:30 this morning to be online for a two-hour live panel discussion on The Guardian’s website. The topic was “The Journalist of Tomorrow”, and the question was ‘what kind of tools and what kind of skills’...
Read moreWelcome to the World of the Viewser
I was going to post a blog this morning coining a new word: Viewser I was hoping for a place in the entymology Hall of Fame (or is that bugs?) But a quick trip to Google showed me that someone...
Read moreRIP Mike Wallace – And Not A Moment Too Soon
CBS newsman Mike Wallace died this week at the age of 93. The airwaves and much of the blogosphere was filled with eulogies extolling his greatness as a ‘journalist’. I beg to differ. Wallace was certainly great in that...
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