by Andy Brudtkuhl on October 16, 2009
If you read this blog you know I’m a fan of a la carte TV. As it should – the web has facilitated this desire through piracy and the realization from the powers that be that the market is pushing this direction. Regardless – distribution of tv and media via the web is the future. And Clicker is here to organize all that chaos.
You see each network (much like newspapers, etc) refuse to distribute their content outside their realm of control so we now have a system of content silos. You can watch TV on Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, NBC.com, South Park Studios, etc, etc. This is a problem for consumers because we are used flipping on the TV and drilling through hundreds of channels with all the content in one place.
Clicker aims to solve that problem.
Clicker is the complete guide to Internet Television. Our mission is to make it simple for you to find the right show, right now.
As massive amounts of programming move online, consumers entering a world of infinite choices, all on-demand. Great! Finding the show you want to watch? Painful. Thousands of episodes from thousands of shows are housed on thousands of different sites, mixed among billions of random clips and videos.
Clicker catalogs all broadcast programming online, along with TV-quality Web originals, from these silos and delivers them in one seamless, organized experience so you can easily discover what’s available to watch (and what isn’t) online, where to watch it, and what’s worth watching.
Do you think Clicker will solve the problem? Want to try it out? We’re giving invites to the first five people that comment on this post!
by Andy Brudtkuhl on August 4, 2009
We all know that the newspaper industry doesn’t get the web. They don’t get the economics of the link economy – and likely never will. Further more they are completely ignoring the power of the long tail – and specifically the long tail of content.
Raise your hand if your local paper purges their archives online! *raises hand*
From The Gazette
The Des Moines Register
I reached both of these today (obviously prompting this post) after trying to get back to articles I had saved on Diigo to read later. I cannot think of a strategic reason for this – it’s not like they are charging money to access the archived content. It’s simply not there. They are missing out on huge amounts of search traffic and wasting a plethora of inbound links.
Wake Up.
by Andy Brudtkuhl on January 26, 2009
by Andy Brudtkuhl on December 11, 2008
In fitting timing for our series on the Future of the Media/Journalism – yesterday Diane Rehm had a panel on her public radio show discussing “The Newspaper Industry and The Future of Journalism“.
This week’s bankruptcy filing by the Tribune Company is the latest sign of trouble for the news business. A panel joins guest host Katty Kay to discuss how the on-going recession is affecting the already struggling industry and what it could mean for how Americans get their news.
Guests include Lauren Rich Fine, Director of Research at ContentNext; Rem Rieder, Editor and Senior Vice President of the American Journalism Review; Jeff Jarvis, associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism; and Bruce Dold, Editorial Page Editor for the Chicago Tribune.
[audio:http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/305/510071/98082653/WAMU_98082653.mp3]
by Andy Brudtkuhl on December 11, 2008
