Markmedia

virtually news

Its starting:
In one of Vince's postings he says:

Once virtual worlds become markets the model for marketing, advertising and retail promotion will have to change from the current 2-D e-commerce model we have on the web to a combination of automated and mediated bodiless real-life interactions.

Now Reuters have started to do just that.
Adam Pasick, a Reuters’ media correspondent based in London, will serve as the news organization’s first virtual bureau chief in Second Life. He’ll be using a personal avatar, or animated character, and will be known as “Adam Reuters,” in keeping with the game’s naming system.

Starting virtual news agencies and/or newspapers in the digisphere will be a money making enterprise if handled with care and if informed by a real understanding of the informational needs of the citizenry of the virtual worlds.
Let the games begin :-)

Journalism Leaders Forum

The impressive, international line up for the 4th Journalism Leaders Forum on Tuesday, October 17th, includes:

• The man dubbed 'the most powerful person in Britain's regional newspaper industry', Johnston Press chief executive Tim Bowdler;
• The digital editor of the first fully-integrated multimedia newsroom in The Netherlands, Geert-Jan Bogaerts;
• The associate director of the Knight Foundation-funded programme, 'Tomorrow's Workforce', Tim Porter.

Chaired by the past president of the Society of Editors, Keith Sutton, who is an Industrial Fellow of the Journalism Leaders Programme, the panel will discuss, 'Leading Innovation: what to do, how to do it'.
More details about the event - which is free and open to the public and which will also be Webcast live is available on the Forum blog:
http://journalismleadersforum.blogspot.com.

This should be interesting even if it seems to (wrongly) imply that there are no women involved in the  move to digital.
(disclosure: I teach on this course and have given in-house strategy and training for the Johnston Press pilot project in Preston)

Berkeley lectures online in video

Like to go to Berkeley? Its one of the major universities in the US.
They have started to publish videos of their classes on Google Video.
See Sergey Brin from Google talk about search engine development, Jan Pederson & Dr. Daniel E. Rose talk about Yahoo or a host of lectures from the journalism program.

Feed your head

go digital or die

Web 2.0: The Murder of the Old Media

Historia.se

Nu finns en söktjänst för historisk statistik - Historia.se.

Från hemsidan:

Syftet med Historia.se är att vara en portal för historisk statistisk, att presentera historia i siffror. Inriktningen är främst på ekonomisk historia. Hemsidan har tilldelats medel för samverkan med det omgivande samhället från Stockholms universitet (ekonomisk historia). Redaktör och webbmaster för hemsidan är Rodney Edvinsson, fil. dr. i ekonomisk historia vid Stockholms universitet. Det är viktigt att ha i åtanke att historisk statistik inte är någon exakt vetenskap, och ju längre bakåt i tiden man försöker skatta olika serier desto större blir osäkerheten. Olika definitioner kan också ge väldigt olika resultat. En del av den statistik som publiceras på denna hemsida utgör pågående forskning - dessa data kan därför komma att justeras framöver.

The Future of Newspapers

An excerpt from the Pew foundations round table discussion on the future of the newspaper:

If you could recommend one thing the newspaper industry should do differently what would that be?

John Carroll: The forty-year marriage of journalism and the modern corporation has failed. At the very time newspapers need enlightened stewardship, they are being actively harmed by their owners. Newspapers need a different form of ownership, one that values journalism, believes in public service and is unwilling to strangle newspapers for their short-term cash.

Paul Ginocchio: Get a new ad sales force, one that knows how to make cold calls and one that has no history of entitlement.

Lou Ureneck: Be bolder in their coverage of news. Seek truth over balance.

Rick Edmonds: Clarify to Wall Street that the news core must be kept strong, even at the expense of profit margins and earnings for a period of years because investments and experimentation in new media is essential.

Phil Meyer: Transfer routine content to online, starting with the stock pages. Use the savings to invest in higher quality and more specialized content. Invest in radical experiments to find the right combination of newsprint and online distribution.

Excellent collection of economic research papers

A large (and growing) collection of economic research papers, journal articles and book chapters is  available  from  the Department of Business, Economics, Statistics and Informatics       at Örebro University.

EconPapers provides access to RePEc, the world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software;

We have:

• 169,602   Working Papers   (114,461 downloadable) in 1,470 series 
• 185,829   Journal Articles   (140,932 downloadable) in 445 journals 
• 1,336   Software Items   (1,322 downloadable) in 21 series 
• 624   Books   (492 downloadable) in 20 series 
• 1,432   Chapters   (1,432 downloadable) in 34 series
• 8,788 Authors and 3,736 individuals have registered     in the RePEc Author Service

for a total of 358,823 searchable working papers, articles and software items with 258,639 items available on-line.

Community-based Networks and Innovative Technologies

Much of the talk about an information society and the use of technology in such a society remains an unfulfilled promise in the developing world. This disconnect is particularly strong in rural areas, which often do not have the necessary infrastructure to take part in any social or economic improvements that may be the by-product of such developments. This report from the United Nations Development Program, authored by Sean O Siochru and Brian Girard looks at how an innovative combination of community-driven enterprises and the new wave of wireless and related technologies may assist such communities most effectively. The report is divided into five primary chapters, and a number of appendices which contain detailed case study
information from such countries as Poland, Argentina, Peru, and India.
There is a summary.

dissertations from Nordic universities.

In DiVA you can find theses, dissertations and other publications in full-text from a number of Nordic universities. The publications are stored in pdf which requires Acrobat Reader to open and print them. DiVA has been developed by the Electronic Publishing Centre at Uppsala University Library.

how men and women use the Internet

The Pew Internet Project has recently released a new report on how men and women use the Internet. You can find the full report at:
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/171/report_display.asp

The percentage of women using the internet still lags slightly behind the percentage of men. Women under 30 and black women outpace their male peers. However, older women trail dramatically behind older men.

*68% of men are internet users, compared with 66% of women. Because they make up more of the population, the total number of women online is now slightly larger than the number of men.
*86% of women ages 18-29 are online, compared with 80% of men that age.
*34% of men age 65 and older are online, compared with 21% of women that age.
*60% of black women are online, compared with 50% of black men.

"If there is an overall pattern of differences here, it is that men value the internet for the breadth of experiences it offers, and women value it for the human connections," said Deborah Fallows, Senior Research Fellow at the Pew Internet Project."