Sep 18th, 2006 | Blogs, Reimagination | No Comments
The New York Times had a recent piece about how far bloggers have come in terms of being considered influential, in this case in the fashion industry:
Once snubbed by the insular fashion world for their sometimes snarky reviews and tiny audiences, fashion bloggers are now attracting the attention of the fashion establishment. As blogs claim bigger followings, and advertisers shift more spending to them, designers see these independent Web publishers as a new marketing opportunity.
Many small designers, in particular, now realize they can get valuable exposure on blogs that they might not get in mainstream media. This year, with 191 shows in New York, up 25% from five years ago, there aren’t enough old-media critics to cover them all. “I would say we’ve become more selective,” says Ed Nardoza, editor-in-chief of Women’s Wear Daily, the industry trade newspaper.
Sep 18th, 2006 | Blogs, Reimagination | No Comments
A new feature at MSNBC sees the photo editors at the news site posting a picture they particularly liked or didn’t like, and then giving a short critique of the photo.
Sep 18th, 2006 | Media 2.0, Reimagination | No Comments
Vin Crosbie, who has been around online media from the beginning of the first bubble, has posted some of his remarks from a recent conference on what newspapers are doing right online, and how much they still have left to do:
After 12 years of our efforts at publishing on the Web, our sites earn one-twentieth to one-hundredth the revenue per user as do our companies’ legacy products. The average newspaper website earns between USD 5 and USD 14 annually per user, comparied to USD 250 to USD 900 annually per printed edition subscriber or daily single-copy purchaser. The comparisons for broadcast sites are even worse.
Sep 18th, 2006 | Citizen Media, Reimagination | No Comments
Some recent developments on the “citizen journalism” or “user-generated content” front, depending on which irritating buzzword you prefer:
– Gigaom.com has a piece about JPG magazine, which is an interesting blend of online and real (i.e., paper) publishing: started by blogger Derek Powazek and a friend, it takes high-quality photo submissions from amateur photographers and then Web voters choose the best of the submissions, which are then published in a print magazine.
– TechCrunch has a post about a new “citizen journalism” site called Citizenbay, which hasn’t launched yet (TechCrunch got access to the beta). According to the post, it’s “a city centered citizen journalism project that will pay users whose contributions are voted the ten best by readers each day in 60 cities around the US and France.”
Sep 18th, 2006 | Media 2.0, Reimagination | No Comments
In a recent post mirroring his media column for The Guardian, Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine wrote about what he sees as an online media success story called Netzeitung. Based in Germany, he describes it thus:
A grand experiment in the future of news is succeeding. Pity most of you can’t read it, since it’s in German. But thanks to an accident of school scheduling that plopped me into a German class, I’ve been able to follow Netzeitung.de since it was founded in Berlin in 2000 as a net-only newspaper.
It’s not a blog, a search engine or an aggregator. It is a newspaper without the paper, but with 60 journalists reporting the news. Netzeitung has not only survived the internet bubble and a ping-pong game of corporate sales, it has acquired other media properties; it is starting an ambitious effort in networked journalism with citizen reporters; and it is set to be profitable this year.
