I love the idea of an a la carte tv subscription model. I don’t have cable because I don’t want to pay $60+ for 95 channels I won’t watch. So I find alternative methods of watching what I want (*cough* bit torrent *cough*). Apparently I’m not the only one interested in this as there is [...]

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Or… how Time Inc. killed one of the only printed publications that still create value (at least to me). Just a month ago in my discussion on how the media has become commoditized I mentioned B20 as one of the only publications that still attract me. I’ve cancelled Business Week, Fast Company (although recently re-subscribed [...]

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I posted yesterday about online ad sales growing at a steady enough pace to outpace all other types of advertising by 2011. I concluded, like Mr. Battelle that it would happen much sooner than that. But as I read further into the subject it appears as though it may be right on. At the same [...]

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Duh… It shouldn’t have taken a “forecast” to figure this out, but in any case here you go…

SPENDING ON INTERNET ADVERTISING WILL reach $61.98 billion, and will surpass newspapers to become the nation’s leading ad medium in 2011, projects private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson in its 21st Communications Industry Forecast released today.
“We are in [...]

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If you have been paying attention you will realize this is not a new idea - the media has become commoditized. The internet has made information widely available thus lowering the quality of the majority of traditional media.
Newspapers like The Des Moines Register, whose staple content is the AP/Reuters wire, are publishing content that once [...]

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