Books are for reading, papers, magazines, the web are for browsing. Books are books, even on an e-reader. Reading a book is not akin to reading a newspaper and is certainly not the same experience as browsing a web site. I have at all times between 10 and 25 open books. I love books. The pages of my books are black and white, mostly matte.
Après une première distinction au Mipcom de Cannes dans la catégorie “Best News for Mobile” , Anyscreen et nanotv ont reçu mercredi à Paris l’award du Best Sport News” décernée lors des “European Mobile Days “. Bien que développé en 2005 par Anyscreen, soit avant la révolution de l’iPhone, les membres du jurys ont salué …
Jean-Mare Messier is facing a jury in New York. The dot.com era of tech/media giant mergers that were hard to understand when first announced and turned out to prove right the common man sense of skepticism a few years later seems to be over. But historical accounts of mega business deal make for terrific reading. …
This is not about the Google Nexus One Android powered phone. This is about business and economics. My question is simple: how will Google fare when it’s straying away from its core business? When Apple went from the computer sector into the music business with the iPod and iTunes, then jumped happily and successfully into …
Discussed: whats is a “media mogul, competitive advantages and/or barriers to entry, business models, fallacies “Scale, customer captivity, cost and government protection.” According to Knee and his co-authors, those are the four fundamental ingredients necessary to maintain a competitive advantage in any industry. That includes the media. The “curse” they refer to in the title …
Discussed: Google, new and old media , boning a duck, hard facts not spin, moguls, business models The following scene is by now fairly well known. It was recently excerpted in the New Yorker and has now been nicely built in writer Ken Auletta’s “ Googled ” book. It goes as follows: back in 2003, …
This is what serendipity is all about: surfing the net, browsing in a bookstore and simply discovering the work of someone you didn’t know about. Today, the painter Marlène Dumas.
Happy New Year! And please be aware that 2010 is not “two-thousand and ten”. I stood to be corrected so now you know, thanks to the good folks at twentynot2000.com. All the best!