Having looked at the kind of content businesses that exist and the different ways they are financed, I will now go into more details on the way the content is generated, in this final entry about the three dimensions of media. Media Bands For most of...

In the last two entries, I looked at an overall tri-dimensional model of the media landscape and delved in further into the entertainment vs. information axis. In this entry, we will look at the second dimension covering how media is financed. The...

In the last entry, I proposed a definition of media that would take us away from the mode of delivery and towards a 3-axis analysis of media models: entertainment/information, purchased/subsidized, and consumer/professional generated. In this entry, I...

Over the last few years, much has been written about some of the challenges the media industry is facing, particularly newspapers in the United States. I, myself, have covered the area pretty extensively and for a while but acting as both a reader and...

While most of the announcements around new iPod devices last week were underwhelming, Apple’s recent changes to iTunes could point to a much wider strategy to revolutionize how media is consumed in the future. Understanding iTunes LP and iTunes...