January 2009
32 posts
What will Ofcom's 'second BBC' mean for Channel 4... →
BuzzGain Launches Do-It-Yourself PR Service To The... →
(via kodewulf)
“Negotiations are in hand for a partnership between cash-strapped Channel 4 and...”
– Editorial: BBC and Channel 4: Serving the public
Game On! Obama's Clash With The White House Press... →
“Performance rights organization (PRO) ASCAP is now pondering ways to defuse the...”
– ASCAP Targets “Copy Left / Free Culture” Enemy
How about instead of trying to squeeze out money by limiting and restricting things, you start working on finding ways to get consumers to want to give you money.
You want things to work the same way they did 20 years ago. They’re not going to. Square...
Ofcom’s Ed Richards on the review of... →
“…when Monty Python launched their channel in November, not only did their...”
– YouTube Blog. It’s stunning to me how much opportunity there is in giving shit away. But, it’s approximately twice as stunning how few people really understand how powerful (and indisputable) that simple fact of modern life is. Evolution is going to become unimaginably painful for any company that...
“Plans to merge Channel 4 with its rival Five or the BBC’s commercial arm could...”
– FT.com / UK - Shake-up in public service TV outlined
“Like other types of media, broadcasters live in a shifting landscape. Yet the...”
– FT.com / Comment & analysis / Editorial - Changing channels
“…much of the decline of newspaper circulation relates not to fewer newspaper...”
– C. Edwin Baker (via azspot)
“Indeed, popularity on TV and in print has not necessarily translated to the Web....”
– Can CNN.com, the go-to site, get you to stay? - International Herald Tribune (via slantback) (via iamboz)
“Al-Jazeera’s brand of news - you could call it “blood journalism” - takes war...”
– The violence network, a brilliant article about Al-Jazeera’s biased but honest reporting. (via dailymeh) (via aatw)
“[F]or years, I’ve been trying to get people to stop worrying about 800 pound...”
– George Howard quoted on Hypebot
If you are at all interested in this “future of music” crap that so many of us are always jawwing about, George should definitely be on your radar. As for what he’s saying here, I’m sure you’ve heard me reiterate that a million times: if you, as an artist,...
6 ministers to launch 'PR attack' abroad →
Prime Minister Olmert decides to send ministers abroad to try and change distorted public opinion on Israel in light of Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. Interior Minister Sheetrit to be sent to Belgium, says ‘we are fighting to defend citizens’ safety’
The Smith-Mundt Symposium - MountainRunner →
The 2009 Smith-Mundt Symposium was last night. The goal was to foster an interagency, inter-tribal, and cross-governmental discussion on the fundamentals of America’s global engagement. While the organizing principle was the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, it was really an act of subversion to have a discourse on shaping America’s discourse.
My desired outcome of the Symposium was not to generate new...
InfoWarCon 2009 →
Briefly… ever want to talk to the authors of “Unrestricted Warfare”? InfoWarCon 2009 will be the place to do it. InfowarCon 2009 is sure to be the premier Information Operations event of 2009! InfowarCon 2009 examines the numerous theoretical and practical changes and uses of IO/IW, Cyberwar, Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy techniques and experiences learned in Iraq, Afghanistan,...
BBC deal could secure ITV local news until 2016 →
BBC NEWS | Technology | Digital rights war looms... →
Entertainment companies can’t break their DRM... →
Just as music was ready to flow freely from iTunes, with all of the DRMstripped away (and offering suckers who already had DRM-coded files to pay extra to free them), entertainment companies now want to add thethorny little copy protections to movies/DVD’s, presumably so they don’t have to go through the same headaches they did with… iTunes and Apple!
Media frustration over Gaza ban grows →
UK news organisations are becoming increasingly frustrated by the continuing ban preventing foreign correspondents from crossing into the Gaza Strip, more than two weeks after Israel’s military offensive against Hamas began. After months of attempting to limit access, the Israel Defence Forces are still refusing to open the Erez crossing they closed on 27 December, when the bombing campaign...
Virgin Megastore Times Square Closing In... →
Roy Greenslade: Sales bound to fall as newspapers... →
Digital Britain: Online BBC Rival ‘A Priority’;... →
Blockbuster To Bring Video To PCs And Mobile... →
Can the Evening Standard survive - even under a... →
OFT recommends that ITV's CRR should be relaxed →
The Office of Fair Trading has recommended that CRR, the mechanism that protects advertisers from ITV1 abusing its dominant position in the UK TV ad market, be relaxed.
It published a consultation document today with a preliminary view that it it is recommending to the Competition Commission that CRR be eased in some way.
CRR, or contracts rights renewal, was introduced in 2003 during the merger...
TV producers cry wolf over ISPs →
Lomborg and Playing the Long Game →
“For all of Barack Obama’s repeating the mantra of “one President at...”
– Being Invisible 2.0 | Marc Lynch
“Yet there are growing signs that network TV is moving away from its relentless...”
– Television is starting to look beyond the 18- to 49-year-old demographic - Los Angeles Times (via ericmortensen)