AI
Media & AI: exponential change is here
The media industry has been trapped in digital disruption for two decades. AI is only going to accelerate that change. Buckle up.
Journalism
Digital News Report 2025: exponential media change is here
The era of incremental media change is over, and the emerging media tsunami is upon us. It's exponential all the way from here on out.
digital disruption
Missing Links & Unfinished Thoughts: False Prophets and Useful Tools
More gems from the published archive, looking at the problem with media innovation, and the first real meme…
creativity
Experimenting our way to purpose
Neil Perkin [http://www.onlydeadfish.co.uk/only_dead_fish/2017/07/the-purpose-of-life.html]: > It’s part of the reason why I have such little patience for the view that we all have one self-evident purpose in life and it is simply a matter of being brave enough to
digital disruption
Are ebook sales really in decline?
Some sobering news for ebook enthusiasts [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/business/media/audiobooks-turn-more-readers-into-listeners-as-e-books-slip.html] in the New York Times: > Sales of adult books fell by 10.3 percent in the first three months of 2016, and children’s books dropped by 2.1 percent. E-book sales
digital disruption
Has digital disruption for media plateaued?
Charlie Beckett thinks he detects signs of a stabilisation in media’s transition to digital [http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2015/04/29/is-this-the-end-of-the-future-of-news/] : > At last they had a sense of where the battle lines are: mobile, algorithms, native advertising, millennial’s, wearables, etc. They have moved on
digital disruption
The death of the one hour photo lab
Sometimes we in media think we’ve been hit hard by digital. Be profoundly glad you don’t run an independent one-hour photo shop: > No other business over the past 15 years has died off with the near-totality of the all-American photo shop. There are now just 190 left