October 15, 2006
7 entries filed this day
Who Controls the Future of Ads?
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · advertising/marketing / Knowledge Management / what's new
Venturebeat has Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledging that with MySpace and YouTube wrapped up Google, the favoured search engine for most marketers, is unnassailable in its dominance of the contextual ads market.Ballmer adds too that’s bad for anybody in the media business - Google will decide what cut we get from Adsense and related contextual...
Filed at 5:55am
A Goldrush Called Second Life Namespace is Also About Sex
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · companies / insights / Knowledge Management
Clickable Culture talks today about the sale of Second Life names (right now you have to choose from a list given by Second life). Second Life now intend making names a tradable item, pretty much like domain names, though more expensive (like $100).I wrote about Second Life in the Irish Times recently and, weird, then...
Filed at 6:13am
Well Said is Not Always Well Written
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · error and bias / Knowledge Management / what's new
Dave Winer has been the focal point of a discussion on blogs and journalism these past few days.Dave’s point is that the reader is now the writer and in ten years time all news will be blog based.On mediangler I’ve been trying to work some of this out too. Conor O’Neill has pointed out that...
Filed at 11:38am
Vista, Disaster and Microsoft’s Rosy World
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · companies / Knowledge Management
The idea that Vista is doomed and Microsoft will be hauled over the coals by the EU competition authorities, mercy, mercy, is gaining unnecessary traction.I like Vista. I like the semi-transparent screens. It really appeals to the boy racer in me. I can’t be seen in a car with stripes down the side but an...
Filed at 1:24pm
Old School?
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · for argument's sake / for arguments sake / Knowledge Management
Over here I was called the kind of person who stands up for old school journalism. “Shaughnessy’s embrace of “old school” journalism principles is a politically incorrect counter point to the Web 2.0 school of citizen journalism.”Agape and aghast - I was standing up for some principles OK but I do love blogging and I...
Filed at 4:54pm
Friday’s Media Pulse Finally in The News
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · error and bias / for argument's sake / for arguments sake / Knowledge Management
I wrote this Friday.The editor of Business 2.0 is asking every journalist at his magazine to create a blog. And in a possible first for a major publisher, the participating bloggers at the Time Inc. title will be paid based on their traffic.Via Iwantmedia.And this today:And the latest news is…. Buzzmachine caught up with this...
Filed at 6:25pm
Newspapers Breach Copyright Scare
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · for argument's sake / for arguments sake / Knowledge Management
To this:“Looking to avoid the kind of legal tangle that Google has found itself in, Microsoft’s MSN division in Belgium is in talks with a group newspaper publishers over the rights to publish their content on its Web site.”I say:Show me a newspaper that is not breaching the copyright of a freelance journalist wilfully denying...
Filed at 6:28pm
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