Demo: Launchpad and Flameout
UPDATED Demo is probably the longest lasting of the tech conferences, justly so. Each year a host of companies — 77 this time — demonstrate their products on a stage in front of several hundred...
View ArticleDigital Entrepreneurship Needed Across All Media
Here’s a column I did for PR Week magazine: A cliche of business holds that good ideas are a dime a dozen; it’s hard work and investment capital that turn them into businesses. As with most cliches,...
View ArticleMedia Entrepreneurship in Journalism Education
Mark Glaser at PBS has an excellent piece on this topic here.
View ArticleNew Media Entrepreneurship Job Available at Arizona State University
We have an opening at Arizona State for someone to work with me at the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship. Here’s the official listing (feel free to pass it around): Business...
View ArticleNew Comics in New Media
The irony was deliberate when Steve Outing and Steve Kearsley soft-launched their new online comic strip, techGRL, a week ago yesterday. It’s a humor site, yes, but the goal — “not just a comic strip,...
View ArticleOnline Ad Company's Very Questionable Activities
Free Press and Public Knowledge have put out a report claiming that “NebuAd Wiretaps Consumers and Hijacks Web Sites.” Quote: Consumers are having their Web browsing intercepted and Web sites are...
View ArticleEveryBlock partners with New York Times
Good news: EveryBlock, the terrific local data site started by Adrian Holovaty, is launching a partnership with the New York Times. More here. This is part of the future for media entrepreneurs:...
View ArticleNew York, Feb. 10: Talking About Book Ecosystems
I’ll be in New York on Feb. 10 to speak at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference. My topic is considering ways to expand and extend the ecosystem around books: We know now that many...
View ArticleEndowing Newspapers: What Are We Saving, Anyway?
There’s a debate under way in the newspaper/journalism corner of the blogosphere and Twittersphere, spurred by an op-ed commentary in the New York Times earlier this week. The piece, by Yale’s chief...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship in Media, East Coast Style
Boston Globe: Media entrepreneurs test new ways to get the message across. Boston was home to the first American newspaper. A Medford radio station was among the first to try selling advertising to...
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