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Tom Foremski
San Francisco
I'm a news reporter with 2 kids and an ex and a blogging habit :-(
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You could write more than a chapter or two on Sun.
Go Oracle
Jonathan posts a great note as Sun merges with Oracle. I was lucky enough to be a part of Sun for a number of years. He’s right, there are many remarkable people there. Oracle is going to be even more remarkable as a result.
Seems like a private den of inquity, 8 miles high :)
Cuddle Class….
I love this idea from Air New Zealand… really clever… they are easily the best airline out there… The national carrier yesterday unveiled the interiors for its new Boeing 777-300 aircraft, which includes the Skycouch, the first economy seating that allows the traveller to lie flat, or a couple ...
Great reporting, Irving. I'm always on the lookout for stories of disruption.
It seems that once anything can be digitized, labor or services, the Internet enables the competitive forces of disruption.... Except Telcos, but that's because they are regulated, the government becomes a partner and a barrier to new competition. This could be our future.
Social Media Implications for Business
I spent the first week of November as Innovator in Residence at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. As part of my activities during the week, Dean Ernest Wilson hosted a conference on Social Media: Platform of Provocation for Innovation?. The half-day conference consisted o...
I left the Financial Times five years ago and managed to improve my profile. I've been writing about my 5 year lessons here on http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/.
Personal brands vs. corporate brands: Who are the real superstars?
It's always interesting to see when superstars emerge out of existing brands. And it is fascinating to watch when they choose to leave for something new. Robert Scoble emerging out of Microsoft is a good example. Robert was the first person to put a human face on Microsoft (other than Bill Gates...
The Internet is making us smarter, no doubt about it. The quality of the arguments and information that can be found is astounding. And people are a lot smarter than pundits think they are, they don't believe anything/everything they read.
The Internet is making our kids smarter too.
Stupidity and the Internet
Nick Carr has a talent for stirring debate. I’ve been drawn in to such debates in the past and, once again, I find that I cannot resist. This time, in an article in The Atlantic, suggesting that the Internet might be making us stupid, Nick set off a firestorm of debate and discussion in the bl...
This is hardly succinct :)
This is the crux:
"If the logic of the Big Shift holds true, we are moving from a relatively stable business environment to one characterized by rapid rates of change with ever more disruptions generating increasing uncertainty and unpredictability. The economic imperatives and the management practices and institutional arrangements required to address those imperatives will lead to more instability rather than less."
Things will continue to be unstable despite the tools, imho.
Defining the Big Shift
About one month after the release of our Shift Index report, one question that keeps coming up is whether we can offer a succinctly define what the Big Shift is that our Shift Index seeks to measure. Given the magnitude, depth and far-reaching impact of the Big Shift, succinctness is a challeng...
"The Internet Devalues Everything It Touches, Anything That Can Be Digitized" - http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2009/06/a_saturday_post.php
But, just because we don;t have a business model for media online doesn't mean that we won't ever have a business model. When we do, the sites that have the traffic will be the ones that will benefit the most.
The Internet Is Dead (As An Investment) - or is it?
ORIGINAL ARTICLE - WSJ - James Altucher The great FRED WILSON's response - HERE! My humble take: Thanks Fred - Some great 'Yang' to a load of old 'Ying' - I replied to the same article - A great sensationalist headline maybe, but a totally flawed argument nevertheless. It isn't the internet as ...
You might need to wear your tin foil hat more often :)
Do great minds just happen to think alike or have I been copied without attribution? By the Economist at that!
Will Pate pointed me to this article in the Economist Today Here is my recent review on Fast Forward and here is my first article on the topic in 2004. Is this just a happy coincidence? What do you think?
Lots of great advice here Jan. You hit on several kery issues, especially about newspaper's salespeople--they are resistant to change. Selling more for less is not a pleasant prospect for them. But you can always bring new sales people that don't have the culture of the old world.
Newpapers/ Magazines - How to mend what isn't really broken! - Jan Simmonds
Whilst a consumate entrepreneur, I am a salesman at heart and so I find myself looking at this whole debate through the presumed eyes of existing sales teams at the organizations we are all referring to and in my opinion, that's where the clarity starts. Liberated from the foggy and disparate o...
Wow, teaching students of PR how media creates stories! I would think that should be a number one priority?
That demonstrates the gulf between the two communications organisations: PR and media.
Deconstructing news
Tom Foremski makes a passionate plea for the press release (sic) to die. In place, he wishes the PR industry could adopt the principles of object-oriented programming by offering modular and reusable information for journalists to assemble into a news story. (To some extent, this technology is a...
I'm not saying get rid of the press or news release, I'm saying lets have it in a format where it cuts down the work that is needed to turn it into a publishable news story. Most lack links and other online goodies and if you could deliver a package of factual information, easily sorted and in an online format it would be a better, more useable product. But you are welcome to keep doing things the old way too :-)
Is Tom Foremski talking about XPRL?
Tom Foremski at SiliconValleyWatcher has had another one of his rants about the PR industry and press releases. I'm amused by his reference to press releases which is one of my pet peeves. NEWS releases are what I've written my whole career. It's an in your face reminder that it must always co...
Morgan, your industry is like the man falling past the 33rd floor of a sky scraper "So far, so good..."
Jam tomorrow :-)
It's time for new thinking in your industry--but "you can't get there from here" because you have established business models to defend. That why it's an opportune time for a "new rules" PR company startup, imho.
Why isn't PR suffering like the MSM?
Tom Foremski, pioneering journo blogger and driving force behind Silicon Valley Watcher, has been gazing into his crystal ball, trying to work out the end game for media in the light of the disruptive force of blogging. I've enjoyed several chats with him about how it might pan out and the type...
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