One of the problems I've had with blogs that I've carped about in this space is that, taken as a whole, they don't have nearly enough critical mass to be considered media.

"To us it's a refrigerator, to our grandparents it was technology... you may think of myspace as technology... our users don't," said Shawn Gold, myspace.com's senior vice president-marketing and content....

The most significant thing to happen to newspaper and magazine publishing since the printing press was the Apple Macintosh. I vividly remember what happened to my high school newspaper when we moved from doing pasteup with Xacto knives to laying out the entire paper in PageMaker after acquiring a few new Macs. It was like an overnight revolution.

Our industry's doing well, wouldn't you say? So why's it so hard for us to hire? Let's take a look at things objectively for a second....

Well, it's that time of year again, folks. You've seen the ads for tax' preparing software all over the Net in the past few weeks. Because tax day fell on a Saturday this year, we got a extra cushion. For many, the deadline is tonight.

There has been so much coverage lately about filmmakers releasing their products on the Web, and how so many households are finally doing what industry types thought would happen before the turn of the millennium--a convergence of the last mile between telephony and television. But, that convergence never really happened, did it?

The annual trade show and conference of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association was held in Atlanta earlier this week. Since this show sits squarely in the middle of media trade show season, there was not much new ground to cover....

Let's talk about brands for a minute. For all the excitement over launching a new idea and trying to market it to the masses, let's not lose sight of one simple fact; that a brand is nothing more than the tangible expression of an experience. A brand is not a business unto itself.

A question that seems to come up a lot about online ad campaign recommendations concerns the balance of composition and coverage. To be more precise, clients who often prioritize coverage over composition often wonder why online agencies tend toward the opposite approach.

Citizen journalism is also known as participatory journalism. For instance, this weekend I saw video footage of the devastating tornados in Tennessee on the news as well as online. Much of the footage was taken by amateurs--aka, someone with a video camera....