Media in the New Millennium

Posted by Bevo Beaven
 
Coming up in January, our agency is co-sponsoring a special new media workshop, but this one is aimed at a purely female audience.  On January 9, “Chicks Who Click” http://www.chickswhoclick.com/ is bringing together women from all over who have their own businesses selling products and services for a day of skiing (and [...]

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Posted by Lisa Everitt
Boulder native, New York Times reporter and Rudy Park co-creator Matt Richtel has launched his latest creative project: a novel on Twitter.
Called Twiller, it’s a thriller delivered one 140-character slice at a time. Catch it at  http://twitter.com/mrichtel.  You might want to check the plot summary first before jumping into tweets like this:
Interogators [...]

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posted by Doyle
Jerry Lewis, formerly with the Boulder County Business Report, is now writing an interesting blog we like to follow called the Boulder Report. He joined us for our New Media Summit last week (thanks for coming, Jerry!), and wrote about what he took away on his blog. As you’d expect from a writer, [...]

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From the Apple Web site yesterday:
“Music fans have now purchased and downloaded more than five billion songs from the iTunes Store. The number one music retailer in the U.S., iTunes features the largest music catalog with over eight million songs. And iTunes customers are now renting and purchasing more than 50,000 movies every day, making [...]

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I took the plunge about a month ago and purchased a Kindle, the e-reader from Amazon. At first, I have to admit, it was a toy. Now, honestly, it’s changed the way I consume reading material. Here’s some notes from my first 30 days.
The Closed Ecosystem. At first, I was not too crazy about buying [...]

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I have to have some work done on my Subaru this week (note: do NOT pull in to the garage with the bike on the roof rack — it does not work out). Switching cars for a few days is always a pain, and this switch is even more so — the rental car does [...]

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Bob Lefsetz writes a great blog about the music industry. His latest post, from today, is outstanding, discussing the Eagles’ latest album, “Long Road Out of Eden” and it’s place in today’s music landscape. My favorite line from the post really summarizes the changes in the music industry: “Don Henley has gone from being a [...]

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Although I’m not much of a country music fan, I do like the Dixie Chicks’ 2006 release Taking the Long Way. Earlier today I had a chance to watch part of the accompanying documentary Shut Up and Sing, which I also enjoyed.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the movie for me was the preparation for [...]

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I love being able to rent movies on iTunes. It’s new, but I’ve rented a few movies already.
I have a question, though.
Why does the movie expire in 30 days? I get the watch it in 24 hours part… that’s fair. However, if I pay you $3.99, why can’t I just watch it when I feel [...]

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ABC-Disney Media Networks co-chair Anne Sweeney told attendees at a recent gathering of the American Association of Advertising Agencies that recent research that shows half of all BitTorrent users are trading television shows. But rather than railing against piracy, she said that content providers must create an option “so superior to the pirated version [...]

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