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Must Reads for May 14th

Jonathan Dube — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:57:13 +0000

Here are today’s must-read digital news stories from around the web:

Think Web Video Can Challenge Upfronts and TV? Fuhgeddaboudit!

Jonathan Dube — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:12:01 +0000

“Google, Microsoft and AOL are hoping that their web video offerings and NewFront presentations will help them extract a healthy slice of the TV industry’s upfront money this year. Not happening.” Simulmedia founder Dave Morgan expains why.

Must Reads for May 14th

Jonathan Dube — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:57:13 +0000

Here are today’s must-read digital news stories from around the web:

Video: The future of technology, as seen in 1961

Jonathan Dube — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:22:35 +0000

This is a very cool look at how the future of technology was viewed in 1961, from a film AT&T commissioned shortly after AT&T had just announced its first modem. “This film not only serves as almost the birth of the information age, it also projects that technology far into the future.”

The commercial products that would allow this connected, computer-communicating network? They’re basic, but at the time seemed radical:

* The wireless Bellboy Pager, which was introduced commercially in 1962
* The Data-phone, which was supposed to revolutionize business communications
* The videophone—shown as a credit-card-reading vertical two-way television
* The card-reading phone or automatic dialer, which would dial a number from small plastic punch cards, introduced in 1961
* Oh, and package delivery via rocket (which had just been tested in 1959).

Must Reads

Jonathan Dube — Sat, 12 May 2012 19:51:52 +0000

Here are today’s must-read digital news stories from around the web:

Must Reads for May 12th

Jonathan Dube — Sat, 12 May 2012 13:51:52 +0000

Here are today’s must-read digital news stories from around the web:

BBC Future Media director outlines connected media strategy

Jonathan Dube — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:58:21 +0000

BBC Future Media director Ralph Rivera, in a speech to the BBC’s online staff, says digital media is still basically being used as a distribution medium for old media formats — just like when television first launched and was basically a way of transmitting radio. “The iPlayer, as great as it is, is still television online,” he says.

“I think we are still just scratching the surface of what Internet as a medium is going to be…. How do we combine the creativity of storytellers with the innovation of technologists?”

The answer, he says, is taking a connected, creative “studio” approach. “We are going to have a connected strategy to drive connected experiences, experiences that enable us to take advantage of the medium itself. And we are going to do this within the context of a connected studio.”

He says this is not about experimentation. “It’s about creating experiences.”

WSJ uses Facebook to cover Facebook IPO

Jonathan Dube — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:23:42 +0000

In a really clever use of Facebook Pages, the Wall Street Journal has created a Facebook Page to use to cover and promote the WSJ’s coverage of the upcoming Facebook IPO.

Is online journalism shifting from text to video?

Jonathan Dube — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:28:53 +0000

Right now, the bulk of online journalism is text-based. MediaShift’s Mark Hannah wonders whether we are starting to see the shift toward a more television-like experience for online journalism, as print publications beef up their video offerings.

As web video continues to surge among traditional and newer news outlets alike, one wonders whether, in the future, textual content will take a backseat to televisual content. With cheapening bandwidth and constantly improving streaming technology, the technological barriers for this shift would be fairly low. And with text-based news organizations ramping up their capabilities on this front, there will be a steady supply of video. And video ads are booming as well, with eMarketer predicting that online video ads will make up 15% of all online ad revenues by 2016, up from 7.9% this year.

Must Reads for May 10th

Jonathan Dube — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:51:52 +0000

Here are today’s must-read digital news stories from around the web: