mediamachina

So, let’s lay the groundwork as fast as possible with the help of a few diagrams to build a common visual vocabulary from concepts we are all familiar with.
Note: for the sake of speed, I am recycling diagrams from different presentations. Apologies for the inconsistencies. I’ll replace them later with cleaner ones.
Graphical conventions:
In black, top [...]

I am not worried about journalism.
If this simple statement hadn’t been met recently with so many questions from friends and colleagues, I wouldn’t have felt the necessity to explain it here.
So why am I not worried about journalism?
First, because I am a huge news consumer. The consumer of news in me lives nowadays in paradise: [...]

“Why don’t mass media make any money on the Web?”
The time was 1998 and this question was hanging in my mind with the answer seemingly just out of reach.

I had been looking at the Internet since the early 90s. I was at the time editor-in-chief of a business magazine about mass media, advertising and marketing [...]

For the past 30 years I have lived and worked inside the machines generally called mass media. I am a business journalist and editor-in-chief turned Web media and communities consultant. I am a passionate consumer, observer and practitioner of anything media. Since the mid-90s the Web has been a source of wonder and marvels, personally [...]