Twitter: Talk is cheep

(First published: New Media Age, 17.05.07) I got three points on my driving license because of Twitter. What can I say? I was driving. There was a speed camera. My phone started buzzing with the latest frenzied Twitters from the launch of the Apple iPhone. What could be my defence? “My Twitter feed made me speed, M’Lud” Blogging never landed me in trouble with the law. So why has this

How Digital Media Screwed the Media Business

This is the text of a speech I gave at the PSFK London conference on Friday, June 1, 2007. It’s about how media owners now face some very harsh realities against both technology companies that put the power to publish in the hands of the ‘audience’ and smaller, cheaper to run media startups. There’s a little story about the first stirring of how a new kind of cheap to produce,