
Content Management in the Social Age
I read this interesting piece on the redesign of the Reuters website, one paragraph jumped out at me as a consequential observation affecting a wide array of companies today: Known internally as “Reuters Next,” the new reuters.com will be a “state of the art” offering with a redesigned front-end and a proprietary content management system […]

Demand Media pivots into User-Generated Content
Gotta hand it to Demand Media ($DMD), despite the beating they have taken for being a ‘content farm’ they have repositioned themselves very nicely away from the firestorm. First they not only escaped but apparently benefitted from Google’s algorithm shift, aimed directly at the content farms that they supposedly were. Now they’ve made a move […]
How Much Information & Overload Phenomenon!
The Global Information Industry of the UCSD has put together statistics about how much information gets consumed by Americans every day. Two previous studies, by Peter Lyman and Hal Varian in 2000 and 2003, analyzed the quantity of original content cr…