Why we need editors and late night TV

Vanity Fair put theirs on Sarah Palin’s resignation speech. If you value accuracy, clarity, spelling and good sentences, check out the work of people who wield smart pencils here. If you prefer to watch and listen, William Shatner makes Palin a poet. Dale PeskinDale is co-founder emeritus of We Media. www.wemedia.com

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These designs are not legal tender

Back in the September, I wrote that “one of the fundamental tasks of design and business is to stand between revolutions and life, to help people deal with change.” That was the premise of The Right Brain Rules, a strategic vision and a portfolio of assets for creating value into the future. Allison Arieff goes […]

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What every 15-year-old knows about media

Here’s what Mathew Robson, a a 15-year-old in the UK, wrote in a report for Morgan Stanley that has high-paid researchers, media execs and financial analysts wondering what they do for a living: Radio: With online sites streaming music for free they do not bother, as services such as last.fm do this advert free and users […]

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The Changing Face of News

I don’t recall where I was when Buddy Holly died. But I’ll recall where I was when Michael Jackson died. I was on Twitter. — One Twitterer by the name of toomarvelous I will remember where I was when I heard the news about Michael Jackson because it came for me in an unexpected place […]

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Travel to another dimension to serve man

Respectively submitted for your persusal: GM tanks. A plane falls out of the sky. The American president reaches out to the Muslim world. Newspapers slip-slide away. Every blogger has a better idea. Ashton Kutcher says he’s eclipsed CNN as media.  Surreal? Apocalyptic? Prescient? After forty days and forty nights of downpours, biblical storms, and consequential […]

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Satisfaction with newspapers slips again

Earlier this year, our annual We Media poll with Zogby Interactive showed deep dissatisfaction with newspapers and the leadership of news media. Now, two additional reports show how deep the dissatisfaction runs. On a one to 100 scale, newspapers scored a 63 in the American Customer Satisfaction Index quarterly survey. That put them behind the […]

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The death of meaning, continued …

New search engine Wolfram|Alpha launched this week with the Star Trekkian goal to “make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.” Just what the world needs most. Here’s an example from its visual gallery of examples. Really cleared things up for me. Dale PeskinDale is co-founder emeritus of We Media. www.wemedia.com

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The great story and the cat fight

When Andrew and I framed the concept of We Media back in 2002, we adopted a phrase that was intentionally ambiguous. Our intent was to inform and to be informed by a societal movement around media that respected and impacted everyone. It didn’t matter if you worked in offices, owned presses and managed big businesses […]

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