Media in Transition

The key factor in the digital media age is the allocation of attention. In a recent blog post on ReadWrite Web - “The Attention Economy: An Overview”, author Alex Iskold provides an interesting framework we’d like to discuss. In a reverse market, where users determine the design of products and services […]

In our highly specialized economy the main value-added activity is actually the coordination of resources, such as brainpower, energy, raw and processed materials. In Economics we call the costs of organization transaction costs. Nobel laureate Douglas North (Economic History) managed to explain the path humanity took in world history according to lowering transaction costs (institutions) […]

At the Digital Forum, Seoul, a journalist asks Eric Schmidt on what he thinks could mean Web 3.0. At first Schmidt refuses to indulge in “hype-terms”, such as Web 2.0 and others. But he can’t resist speaking about connected, atomic, high-performance Internet apps and risks calling this Web 3.0. Enjoy - Google is pushing the […]

As promised, I open up the “Brainpool” for the upcoming conference! You can leave all kinds of information, questions and suggestions concerning the Panel topics that you would like to discuss. It is important for us all to find a place where creators, as well as business decision makers in the field of media come […]

In wenigen Wochen ist es soweit: Die Media in Transition wird in München als wichtige Anlaufstelle für die Medienbranche ihre Pforten öffnen. Wir möchten die Konferenz und das Leben in unserer modernen Medienlandschaft zum Anlass nehmen und insgesamt 5 Wildcards an Blogger verlosen. Dazu bitten wir jeden an der Konferenz interessierten Blogger darum, uns eine […]