May 18, 2011
The clash of old and new cultures and its fight for survival in a changed landscape is the story behind, Page One, a new documentary on a year in the life of the New York Times. While the story isn’t surprising, or even anything new, it’s good to see someone has made the effort to...
January 11, 2011
Next Wednesday, Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs will announce the launch of the iPad newspaper, "The Daily". It's a venture that the Australian, Murdoch has already reported to have sunk $30 million into, at a time when the future of newspapers is being questioned and even the magazine publishers,...
May 10, 2009
It looks like News Corporation has made the decision to start charging for its online content. Although this is not new news, this whole topic was discussed and experimented with in the early days of Web 1.0, it's now back on the agenda. With newspapers struggling for revenue, this seems to be the...
March 10, 2009
From the panel I ran in New Orleans for the AAAA's media conference, the group of twentysomethings I interviewed were pretty clear that news is headline based and something to be skimmed and probably something that should be free. It's as if it's part of the ambient information; a news feed from a...
February 13, 2009
"Google -- I mean, the harsh way of just defining it, Google devalues
everything it touches. Google is great for Google, but it's terrible
for content providers, because it divides that content quantitatively
rather than qualitatively. And if you are going to get people to pay
for content, you have...
January 15, 2009
Russell and Ben's little experiment of turning blog posts into a newspaper is simply brilliant. Here are some random reasons why?1. Reminds us of the importance of the tactile2. Celebrates a medium that others are writing off as dead3. Makes the temporary, more permanent4. Creates something...
April 26, 2007
Bill Tancer of Hitwise recently presented some interesting stats on participation levels on Web 2.0 sites, his research found that only .16% of all YouTube visits were to upload video and only 0.2% of Flickr visits were to upload photographs. As we are in the “Participation Age” there...
Influx Insights is the blog of BSSP's Influx Strategic Consulting Division. Up and running since 2004, the blog covers branding and the related areas of trends and technology.
