‘Media’ Archive

Today in Technology: The MySpace Mess – Why MySpace Should Exclusively be a Music Site June 23, 2009 No Comments

Do you still have a MySpace account?  I cancelled mine almost immediately after Facebook let me in, and haven’t looked back.  The whole time I was using MySpace, I found the UI to be pretty poor from a design perspective.  The one gem of value I did (and still do) get from the service is [...]

Amazon’s Kindle – The Next Great Mobile Platform or Just a Novel Device? March 24, 2009 1 Comment

It’s been well written that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has not been forward with the sales numbers for the Kindle, thus it is difficult to compare how the device has done as compared to other new media devices like iPod.  Some analysts have done some work on trying to uncover the truth around the sales [...]

Unbiasd.com Adds Video to Site’s Homepage March 18, 2009 No Comments

Check it out if you get a second: http://unbiasd.com. Unbiasd – the site focused on news media bias has quickly transformed into a news video site.
Also, I’ve added a Music section to this blog, sort of an ‘adrianmott.com radio’ of sorts – Here, I’ll feature music I’m currently listening to, as well as video [...]

The End is Near for the Seattle PI – SF Chronicle up next? March 16, 2009 1 Comment

Near for most, here for some – News came in today that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer would print its final edition on Tuesday and go to a web only format.  Essentially this is something that their parent company Hearst has been planning to do for some time, though a front was up that they were attempting [...]

A Culture of Free Products and Content is a Losing Strategy March 11, 2009 3 Comments

Facebook is free, Twitter is free, Wordpress is free. Doesn’t this bother anyone else? Instead of charging their customers a nominal dollar or two or five to use these services on a monthly basis, VC’s flood them with investment money that, psychologically, lets these guys “worry about the business plan later.” Doesn’t THIS [...]

Newspapers Most Likely to go Under March 9, 2009 No Comments

Time mag loves their lists I guess – this one I came across today and based on the title alone, you can tell that it’s rather pessimistic regarding the economic vitality of our newspapers.  I find myself fascinated by the changing news and mass media industry.
I don’t know, perhaps it’s the fact that we’re seeing [...]

The Tide is Changing for Newspaper Distributors February 26, 2009 No Comments

The slow death of newspaper companies is something that is rooted in both the reduction of readers of the traditional physical newspaper and the oncoming train that is online news.  Well it appears that readership of online news has finally caught up to the physical paper and now forces traditional newspaper companies to downsize and [...]