When Ben Huh founded his company – he bought a bunch of cat photos. Yes, he acquired I Can Has Cheezburger? He created the company, bought the website and closed funding in just 45 days. Since then they’ve launched and…
new media
A collection of 11 posts
YouTube celebs: the consumer mags of the future?
A music label is suing YouTube star Michelle Phan for using its music: The label and its publishing arm claim she has used about 50 of their songs without permission in her YouTube videos and on her own website. She…
Press Gazette's double standards
Noted in an otherwise positive story about Matt Hill crowdfunding a rebooted Media Talk podcast: Asked by Press Gazette last month whether The Guardian’s decision to axe Media Talk was an indication that podcasts have had their day, Hill…
Brighton's digerati: understanding the media continuum
It was lovely to see the Brighton digital sector highlighted in The Observer a week ago. With all the fuss about Tech City, interesting online stuff happening elsewhere is all-too-often forgotten. But what was really nice was to see the…
The New Media Survival Guide for Journalists
A quick book recommendation for you. [John Bethune](http://www.b2bmemes.com/) has recently published his New-Media Survival Guide for Journalists. It’s a short, focused and useful read for any journalist still in the process of transitioning from the…
Another (useful) media metaphor
A predictably insightful and inspiring post from Mr Mayfield: > It occurs to me that media and marketing businesses are like the master craftsmen of old. Master masons in the middle ages created cathedrals and castles of staggering scale and beauty.…
Media: Old, New & Social
A neat quote that encapsulates where the divide between new and social media lies: > Adriana says: “I divide between old and new media on the one hand and social media on the other hand. New media is just digitalised old…
It's Change Or Die Time For Media Companies
When publishers first went online, and when new online publishers set up, they basically recreated magazines and newspapers online – they didn’t create anything that was fundementally tailored to the new medium. In fact, it’s much like the early…