I may be a little out of the loop on small town newspapers but I'd suspect that they're now evolving to be complete well rounded little media companies doing video and audio and even social media and social networking, in addition to their traditional photo and written word. Anything to get their message across. I just stumbled on this superb quote from Marshal McLuhan.
"The old medium is always the content of the new medium. As movies tend to be the content of tv and as books tend to be the content of movies." It pretty much perfectly sums up the web. It started by gobling up tv, radio, movies, music etc., but since some of these media companies wholesale boycotted it a black market of goods spring up as well as leaving a tremendous opportunity for innovative media makers... i.e. the world of videoblogging and youtube among others. We've progressed in this latest media revolution on the web beyond the web page and deconstructed old media forms into more granular base elements. We've done the piping in the form of RSS and we've made media move fluidly around the web... a large part of this was the value of search, not aggregation, the true success of RSS. The question is always though... what else? Where else is this going. It's impossible and indeed foolish to think that in the fifteen or so years since the web went commercial and mainstream that it doesn't have some major evolution yet ahead of it. -Mike mmeiser.com/blog flickr.com/photos/mmeiser2 On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Michael Sullivan <[email protected]>wrote: > The other night I had guests over and we were talkiing about the struggles > of the print industry and in particular the newspapers. I pointed out that > though technology advancements have caused this struggle, it will also be > their saving grace... as we see these advanced networked mobile touch > screen > tablet devices come to the market. And content is still king. Soon, the > tech influence will balance and the live or die scenarios will circle back > home to the content that each publisher pumps out. No more excuses. > > As for the ease of a networked camera... check out this n900 + pixelpipe > video: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxD-MmSVohg > > sull > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Rupert Howe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > No. I realised the only reason I wanted an iPhone/iPod Touch this > > week - the *only* reason - is for a job next week where the client > > wants me to do audioboos. > > Otherwise, I've been saving up for an N900. I'll find another way > > around the live audio posting. The Audioboo iPhone app is an elegant > > solution, but there must be other ways. > > > > Nokia rumors are that they will come out with a competing device to > > the iPad next year, running Maemo. No prizes for guessing which I'll > > be buying. > > > > I think these devices will change the way we read books, newspapers, > > magazines and watch films. If the big media companies have any sense, > > they're wetting their pants in anticipation of proper multifunction > > media players and e-readers. Small independent media companies should > > be doing the same. > > > > Rupert > > http://twittervlog.tv > > > > > > On 29-Sep-09, at 4:05 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > > So Rupert.... given your experience with Nokia and Apple, I would > > > love to > > > read your more elaborate thoughts on the two options for mobile > > > smart phone > > > puters. Are you leaning towards iPhone? > > > > > > side note... > > > latest iPad rumor has it coming out in May/June and will run iphone > > > OS with > > > a 3g and non-3g version. > > > > > > > > > http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/backstage/comments/ten-new-details-on-the-apple-tablet/ > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Rupert Howe <[email protected] > <rupert%40twittervlog.tv>> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I must have subconsciously absorbed this news from the internets. > > > > Apple have just ditched exclusivity with O2 in the UK and have > > > signed > > > > deals with Orange and Vodafone. > > > > AT&T exclusivity ends in 2010 - if the UK trial goes well for Apple, > > > > perhaps they will then open things up more in the US too. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 28-Sep-09, at 11:05 PM, Rupert Howe wrote: > > > > > > > > > Yeah, I too thought of a black market iPhone, but imagined it'd be > > > > > hard to get hold of a 3GS at this early stage. I hope they ditch > > > > > these ridiculous exclusivity contracts soon. Am not feeling very > > > > > Apple fanboyish at the moment, however nice this MBP is to use. > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
