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India’s media industry is a ‘sleeping tiger’ — Murdoch
On Wednesday News Corp executive James Murdoch referred to India's media industry as a "sleeping tiger" following a report forecast the sector would double its revenues to nearly US$30-billion by 2015."India's creative force is still a sleeping tiger waiting to be awakened," said Murdoch, News Corp's European and Asian operations ...Recording executives set to be the Dodos of the modern era
Read this scathing piece by Wired's Tony Long on the recent activities of the now-notorious Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). They recently embarked on a crusade to sue 26,000 people who are downloading MP3s over the internet to "send a message". It appears to be a desperate attempt ...Google slammed, Google praised at newspaper conference
Eamonn Byrne from the World Association of newspapers asked the panel at the last session of this congress: Is partnering with a search engine a good idea?The media industry have two main issues with Google. (1) They believe that Google is unfairly using and profiting off publisher's content. Hence the ...Thabo Mbeki, SA president, refers to bloggers
South African President Thabo Mbeki, in a speech about ten minutes ago this morning, referred to the citizen media revolution acknowledging the role of bloggers in South Africa and the world. He referred to bloggers almost interchangeably with journalists in his speech at the WAN conference in Cape Town. This ...'Newspapers are partners not enemies'
Trevor Ncube, President of the Newspaper Association of South Africa and CEO of Mail & Guardian in South Africa, delivered an impassioned and brilliant speech calling on African leaders to understand the role that the press plays in society, and particularly on the African continent. He was speaking at the ...IT Web to pay bloggers for content
Jovan Regaseck the founder of IT Web and a man who I very much admire and respect, is quoted by Tectonic as saying: "In a state of madness (perhaps), I decided that we needed a world first. Something never done before."It Web says it is going to pay bloggers a ...'Beware the power of social media'
This popped into my inbox this afternoon. I know Jovan Regasek well and have big respect for the man, ITWeb and the other publications his company puts out. For those of you wondering, ITWeb survived full on through the dot.bomb crash and was one of the few online publications that ...Decline of the homepage
Website consumption patterns are changing. Remember when the main way to surf a website was via its homepage?Well, that was the old days. The rise of super-fast, super-efficient search engines mean that users are increasingly accessing websites via deep links that bypass their homepages directly to a website’s articles. It’s ...Online media – growing pains
I did a PDF of my powerpoint presentation (3mbs) at the recent Captivate Student Media conference that I popped down to Grahamstown for on Saturday. It looks at the online media industry in South Africa and then the BIG PICTURE, historical view of what online media and online networking means ...Online is no ‘threat’
It’s time to leave the dark ages. The traditional advertising and media industry needs to see the potential of online or get left behind. This sentiment comes from a survey conducted independently by respected technology analyst Arthur Goldstuck for the Online Publishers Association. It finds that there is a general lack ...
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