Media

Experts? Who cares! I’ll have an opinion please

Jul 2nd, 2009 | By Jennifer Wilson | Category: Media, The Lean Forward Blog, User Generated Content

Very brief comment reflecting on an article today from John Hartigan, CEO of News Ltd (and, in my opinion, usually a pretty sensible and reasonable guy). I’m not the only one a bit annoyed by this.
The particularly relevant piece in here is:
His most scathing attack was reserved for bloggers, who, he said, lacked resources and
access […]



May the Force (of old media) be with you

Feb 21st, 2009 | By Jennifer Wilson | Category: Media, The Lean Forward Blog

I’m sitting here with a copy of Brad Howard’s article in Digital Media entitled “Print Strikes Back”, about how digital is taking a very long time to kill of the print industry. I do think that the death of newspapers at the hands of online was always a tad exaggerated. I think that even more […]



Social networking: Collaboration, Aggregation or Disintermediation?

Jan 6th, 2009 | By Jennifer Wilson | Category: Facebook, Media, Social networks, The Lean Forward Blog

This last year has been a year for the rise of the social network aggregator, or, if not a tool, the rise of aggregation through collaboration. I discovered this to my own horror when I realised that my Twitter posts were appearing as Facebook status updates. I had done this so that I could appear […]



Social Media meets Mobile

Oct 18th, 2007 | By Jennifer Wilson | Category: Media, Mobile, The Lean Forward Blog

We all talk about how consumption of media is changing, but don’t often look exactly what this means for the consumer. Specifically, there are two key influences happening right now which are leading to about ten other things.
The two key influences are the rise of social networking and the extension of then mobile phone from […]