Will New Media Have its Lord Blacks?
Canadian Conrad Black, once a media mogul, will be on trial in Chicago in a few weeks. Lord Black and others previously associated with Hollinger International are charged with fraud, racketeering and money laundering. Black could face life in prison. Now, new media doesn’t have too many mega powerful moguls, although there are a few rising stars. But look forwards twenty or thirty years. Who knows what’ll happen, how new media moguls will behave.
Are You Sick of the Presidential Candidate Coverage Yet?
David Bauder of the Associated Press writes
The 2008 campaign is already playing out so intensely that it dominates airtime at a point where only political junkies usually pay attention. Remember: it’s 20 months before voters will make the ultimate decision.
True. They’re everywhere on old and new media, especially on blogs. I mean, how else could political bloggers be earning $20,000 -$30,000/m in ad revenue? This could be one of the most important elections in US, nay, world history. Regardless of who you are rooting for, go blog the vote.
Another Mag Bites the Dust
As a film connossieur, I’ve read many a copy of Premiere magazine. But the Hachette Filipacchi media empire is shutting down the print edition of the magazine. April is the last issue, which is probably on newstands now. The website edition will continue to be published, however.
This makes a great deal of sense, since a web version can include new media content such as audio and video clips, which would enhance film reviews and interviews immensely. I just hope that this type of content does replace text altogether. Of course, if you miss the feel of a print mag, you can always produce a PDF of the site and print it out.
That said, this is obviously a way for all those niche print mags that are barely surviving to actually find their niche audience and live another day.
Originally posted on March 6, 2007 @ 3:48 pm
I agree that new media content such as audio and video clips gives us an enhanced ‘viewing’ experience.
I would say, though, that reading is a sensual experience, and anything tactile enhances it.
The question for me is quantifying the energy used in producing print matter, and how does it compare with the qualitative value in the subjective experience of the morning paper with that cuppa coffee.
Agreed. I love the tactility of magazines. I’m a magazine junkie. I wrote a crazy short story (incomplete) called The Paper Trail, in a near future “United States of North America” (USNA, includes Canada) where paper has been outlawed and a band of rebels escape the now RFID-chipped society and meet to trade paper.
Regarding Conrad Black…..
I was in a family for more than 26 years who joined Organized Crime only this wasn’t any ordinary Crime System. Their job is to launder criminal money straight into property using Mortgage Fraud with large Banks. Conrad Black was one of many names talked about of who is involved in this criminal system. The family often bragged about it being the World’s Largest Criminal System and for good reason. From what I know about Conrad Black, there are mountains more which he is involved in and I’m wondering if any of this will come out in his trial?
Have you considered including several social bookmarking links to these sites. At the very least for