by Allen Weiner | March 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Saul Hansell made headlines when he left The New York Times to try his hand at creating an editorial business for AOL in the form of seed.com. Seed is one of the many “content factories” each with a different approach to creating text, images and videos that is then distributed to content providers. In this [...]
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Category: citizen media Tags: AOL, Saul Hansell, seed.com, SXSW 2010
by Allen Weiner | March 12, 2010 | Comments Off
I think I have the hang of it. This is my second SXSW and I did my best to prep in terms of which sessions to attend, which trade show booths I want to attend, which movies I want to see and which parties I want to crash. Those who know me will attest that [...]
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Category: Conferences Tags: Austin, Avner Ronen, Kick-Ass, Mark Cuban, South by Southwest, SXSW
by Allen Weiner | March 8, 2010 | Comments Off
It’s with great excitement that I will be reporting/blogging/video-ing/Tweeting, etc… from South By Southwest (SXSW) or, as we Austinites say, “South by.” The show is in three sections: interactive, film and music. The first several days are interactive (think a cooler version of Internet World in its earliest San Jose days) and the last several [...]
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Category: Conferences Tags: Austin, South by Southwest, SXSW, Texas
by Allen Weiner | March 2, 2010 | Comments Off
A trio of news stories adds further credibility to a research thread Gartner has been writing about for more than a year which states that magazines will have a tough ride to become multiplatform digital distributors. (“Magazines Fall Behind in the Quest for Digital Publishing Riches,” Dec. 2009—behind gartner.com pay wall). The Wall Street Journal [...]
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Category: Publishing Tags: Apple, Conde Nast, Hearst, iPad, iPhone, magazines, Time
