Mark Coddington

To me, it seems more helpful to think of all of these media sea changes as something the tablet could do, not something it will do. I read Mark Potts’ medium-by-medium list of the effects of iSlate as a sort of call to action for people in those media to do some serious thinking, planning and developing to be on the front end of that revolution if it comes. This could be traditional media’s second chance to be more proactive in finding ways to (gasp!) use technology to its advantage, after its first chance with the Internet was largely squandered.

After taking Thanksgiving week off, we’ve got two weeks to catch up on, instead of just one. And while that first week was relatively slow, this week has been a pretty eventful one, both in terms of media happenings and in important thoughts about journalism.
— Almost a month after Rupert Murdoch first said he plans [...]

There was quite a bit of compelling stuff said this week in the new-media-and-journalism department, but unlike the last few weeks, there’s no one or two issues that much of the discussion has orbited around. So rather than doing my usual mini-essay on the top item or two, I’m going to have some shorter comments [...]

Rupert Murdoch is operating as if the web is still his own little media playground, ruled by scarcity. Instead, it’s ruled by abundance, and that causes the value of any one online publication to tank, even if they’re as large as Murdoch’s.

As Jay Rosen surmised after my last Media Musings, this review is largely curated from Twitter, with some RSS thrown in there to catch anything I might have missed. But because I’ve been out on the road and mostly off the grid for the last week, I decided to catch up via RSS, rather than [...]