Archive for October, 2009

01 | Analysis Of The Context Changes: Transition

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

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: […]

Why I Am Not Worried About Journalism

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

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 […]

00 | The Quest for a Business Model on the Web

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

“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 […]

McLuhan And The Machine

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

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 […]