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Subsidized vs Directly Purchased Media

October 26, 2009

There are many way to finance media. Today, most media is sub­si­dized. How could that change?

Entertainment vs. Information

October 3, 2009

What is the out­put of a media firm: is it enter­tain­ment or infor­ma­tion?
the answer can help us clas­sify media firms.

The Three Dimensions of Media

September 25, 2009

Three dimen­sions dom­i­nate today’s media land­scape. Real­iz­ing what they are will help us save the media.

Is Ownership Passé?

May 4, 2009

In this first piece in a series, I look at own­er­ship vs. rent­ing, the result of a num­ber of obser­va­tions through­out the last few months.

2009 Predictions: Media

January 4, 2009

Con­tin­u­ing through a series of pre­dic­tions for 2009, in this entry I exam­ine the media space and present some of my thoughts about what might hap­pen in the com­ing year.

Reshaping TV

TVs

June 11, 2006

How TV could change.

2006 Predictions

December 28, 2005

Since 1997, It’s been a long run­ning game here at TNL.net cen­tral to make wild pre­dic­tions about the upcom­ing year that have turned out to be only some­what off (and, as always, I promise to revisit them around the end of next year to assess how far off base I was) so here goes this year’s edi­tion. Broadband […]

Doing the numbers on the AOL-WeblogsInc deal

October 6, 2005

AOL bought Weblogs inc., the two year old weblog net­work founded by Jason Cala­ca­nis and Brian Alvey, for a num­ber that is rumored to be any­where between $25 mil­lion and $40 mil­lion. In this process, Time Warner may be pro­vid­ing some ideas as to the val­u­a­tion of blogs by tra­di­tional media. The power of the network […]

At WeMedia 2005

October 5, 2005

I’m attend­ing the WeMe­dia con­fer­ence today and will be live-blogging in this entry. Watch the site for con­stant updates as I will keep adding to this entry. It seems there are two clear camps here: the new media adopters and the tra­di­tional crowd. They can eas­ily be iden­ti­fied based on whether they have lap­tops in front of […]

2005 Predictions

January 3, 2005

Another year, another round of pre­dic­tions. As is now becom­ing cus­tom­ary on TNL.net, it’s time to project out the future year. As always, I’ll revisit those pre­dic­tions at the end of the year. Voice Over IP VoIP expe­ri­enced tremen­dous growth in 2004 but it was just the begin­ning. This year, much more will hap­pen in that space. Cable […]

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