http://mediamachina.boutotcom.com beta Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:04:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am media centric and user driven. Media centric?  By now, we have all observed, learned or at least heard that the Internet is user centric: we have user-centric identity, user-centric design, user-centric media, user-centric Web architecture and user-centric databases management. And of course, when we'll come to hosting communities, we'll look ... http://mediamachina.boutotcom.com/2009/11/13/business-models-are-the-easy-part/ Now we are trying to visualize two factors of the Web that change the traditional-media environment: the speed of two-way communications, and the integration into one ecosystem of all the exchanges that are part of making a mass media. figure 5: Acceleration of all communications Observations on figure 5 Once again: this is ... http://mediamachina.boutotcom.com/2009/11/05/analysis-of-the-context-changes-ecosystem/ 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 ... http://mediamachina.boutotcom.com/2009/10/28/analysis-of-the-context-changes-transition/ 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 ... http://mediamachina.boutotcom.com/2009/10/07/why-i-am-not-worried-about-journalism/ "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 ... http://mediamachina.boutotcom.com/2009/10/06/the-quest/ 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 ... http://mediamachina.boutotcom.com/2009/10/06/mcluhan-and-the-machine/