Social TV Europe: Internet will surpass TV in 14 months By David Johnson on Apr. 9, 2009 - 9:40 AM A Microsoft report, “Europe logs on: Internet trends of today and tomorrow,” finds that European Internet consumption in 2010 will average 14.2 hours per week compared to 11.5 hours a week spent watching TV. Aside from ...
Social TV 2009 Pew State of the News Media By David Johnson on Mar. 16, 2009 - 7:20 AM The 2009 edition of Pew’s annual State of the News Media Report paints a fairly bleak picture of what 2008 actually looked like, and ventures to guess that things are not going to get much better in 2009. The key finding are ...
Social TV Jon Stewart open thread By David Johnson on Mar. 13, 2009 - 10:51 AM By now, you’d have to live under a rock or be Amish not to have seen or heard about Jon Stewart’s CNBC smackdown and the literal “money punch” he delivered last night to Jim Cramer. Either that or I’m ...
Social TV Google Ad Sense adds interest-based advertising By David Johnson on Mar. 13, 2009 - 10:23 AM The Goog is working on a new behavior-targeting platform that will identify users based upon their topical interests to try to serve them more interesting ads. This is nothing that other ad networks, like Tacoda for one, havenR ...
Social TV DrupalCon rocks Washington DC By David Johnson on Mar. 6, 2009 - 12:10 PM I’ve been in and out of DrupalConDC all week, and it is amazing to see how the little open-source cms has gone completely prime time, powering sites for major media and small indies. If you are looking to go the next steps t ...
Social TV Rocky Mountain News presses silenced By David Johnson on Feb. 26, 2009 - 7:05 PM Two months short of the 150th anniversary of the first run, the presses at Denver’s Rocky Mountain News are running for the last time tonight. E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne and newspaper division leader Mark Contreras abruptl ...
Social TV Pirate Bay trial underway, many charges dropped in first day By David Johnson on Feb. 18, 2009 - 11:35 AM While Matt Drudge is cautioning against banks following the feared “Swedish Model,” the Swedish megatorrent site The Pirate Bay is fending off the legal broadsides of the global entertainment industry in a long-awaited ...
Social TV Ustream launches pay-as-you-go Watershed By David Johnson on Feb. 18, 2009 - 11:21 AM Ustream.tv has just launched a new service for Web sites and businesses called Watershed. Targeting the market that seeks a branded player and more customization for live events, Watershed offers a ton of management options outsid ...
Social TV Public media feels the pinch By David Johnson on Feb. 16, 2009 - 5:16 AM Pure advertising isn’t the only business model out there feeling pain. Membership and sponsorship models that sustain public broadcasting are also feeling the effects of the economic downturn, as this article on WAMU public ...
Social TV Lessons in paid content from the digital broadcast transition By David Johnson on Feb. 15, 2009 - 12:23 PM Washington Post staff writers Kim Hart and Peter Whoriskey dish out a wonderful narrative in their article on the Washington conundrum that has turned the digital broadcast transition into a comedy of errors: But with two federal ...