http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11657703/posts/summaryWed, 30 Aug 2006 23:48:44 +0000http://www.mignon-media.com/blogjfm@mignon-media.com (Jeff Mignon)Blogger115http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11657703/posts/summary/116339295520842724Mon, 13 Nov 2006 04:23:00 +00002006-11-13T00:08:21.485-05:00 Soon, American kids aged 8 to 10 are going to have their own daily newspaper. Yes ! You read it correctly. I said DAILY newspaper. Its name : My Daily 10 at mydaily10.com. You can already download PDF samples (here) that were tested, about a year ago, with the Miami Herald. I also encourage you to read the testimonials of parents and teachers about this experiment here. Since the experiment, wehttp://www.mignon-media.com/blog/2006/11/usa-my-daily-10-first-daily-newspaper.htmljfm@mignon-media.com (Jeff Mignon)http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11657703/posts/summary/115690221243690084Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:24:00 +00002006-08-30T08:17:59.556-04:00Some of you know that we have been developing on the side for about sixteen months, a new online personalized start page. Its focus : managing your sources of news and information. Its name is it's my news (itsmynews.com) and the tagline is : Online personalized news service. A little less than a year ago, we tested a private beta version in Flash and finalized our different business models. http://www.mignon-media.com/blog/2006/08/last-stretch-and-vc-funding-for-our.htmljfm@mignon-media.com (Jeff Mignon)http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11657703/posts/summary/115340705320961417Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:44:00 +00002006-07-20T10:51:15.106-04:00If you haven't gone to YouTube and searched for videos of recent events in Lebanon, you owe it to yourself to do so. Explosions, interviews, mainstream news reports, air raids, even satire. It's all here, the best of the Internet, for all to watch. Is it better than any news outlet? You decide.http://www.mignon-media.com/blog/2006/07/youtube-videos-better-than-news.htmlEliot Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/11657703/posts/summary/115314264945111244Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:21:00 +00002006-07-18T11:08:39.266-04:00A Press Gazette report on publishing in the digital age contains this astonishing fact: The number of magazines in South Korea has fallen to 2,200 ffom 6,243 in 1998 - a 65% reduction. Given South Koreans' embrace of all things digital - by many measures, they are the most wired population on earth - this could be a big sign of things to come.http://www.mignon-media.com/blog/2006/07/south-korea-loses-65-of-its-magazine.htmlEliot Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/11657703/posts/summary/114900421370870203Tue, 30 May 2006 15:46:00 +00002006-07-17T09:26:50.160-04:00Rugby, a sport magazine designed by 5W Mignon Media for Groupe L'Equipe, has won the 2006 award for best print media launch in France. L'Equipe is the largest sports publisher in France. http://www.mignon-media.com/blog/2006/05/rugby-magazine-wins-industry-award.htmlEliot Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/11657703/posts/summary/114847564687974365Wed, 24 May 2006 12:49:00 +00002006-05-24T09:00:46.893-04:00There are companies out there looking to put flat-screen TVs into 7-11s and millions of other consumer outlets across the country and then charge advertisers to reach these new audiences. The chains like the idea, as the screens are free or very low-cost, and they get to roll house ads into the mix. But what if they brought participatory media into the mix? The local General Store dominated http://www.mignon-media.com/blog/2006/05/meet-me-at-7-11.htmlEliot Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/11657703/posts/summary/114770984976549613Mon, 15 May 2006 16:04:00 +00002006-05-15T12:17:29.786-04:00In a move to ramp adoption in North America and maintain its lead in VoIP telephony, Skype has announced free calling to land and mobile phone numbers, for the remainder of 2006, for US and Canadian users. When a company like Skype, which already counts 100 million users worldwide, has to resort to such a huge increase in customer-acquisition costs, we begin to see the enormous fight shaping up http://www.mignon-media.com/blog/2006/05/skype-to-offer-free-calling-to.htmlEliot Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/11657703/posts/summary/114719909797061755Tue, 09 May 2006 18:24:00 +00002006-05-09T14:48:22.333-04:00Why do so few US magazine Websites lack RSS feeds? It would seem a straightforward way to keep in touch with a pub's most-engaged readers, those who choose to sign up to read continually updated content. Here's a list of magazines that don't have RSS feeds; sadly, there are many more. Maybe some old-fashioned letters to editors will get them to move? Discover Utne Reader Parenting http://www.mignon-media.com/blog/2006/05/magazine-websites-get-with-programming.htmlEliot Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/11657703/posts/summary/114651167425771650Mon, 01 May 2006 19:13:00 +00002006-05-01T15:27:54.273-04:00David Sifry has a report, the second in a series analyzing Technorati blogosphere data, indicating that only a bit more than half (19.4 million) of the blogs tracked (37.3 million) get updated regularly 3 months after launch. Sifry goes on to point out that Technorati tracks about 1.2 million new postings a day - almost 6% of those 19.4 million working blogs. Of course, we can't know if that's http://www.mignon-media.com/blog/2006/05/updating-blogs.htmlEliot Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/11657703/posts/summary/114624367851898206Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:58:00 +00002006-04-28T16:53:51.586-04:00want to PLAY the news. Fascinating, even compelling, for war stories, but can a video game format make Congressional conference committee budget negotiations exciting? Time will tell. Check out this trailer.http://www.mignon-media.com/blog/2006/04/all-young-dudes.htmlEliot Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/11657703/posts/summary/114599022532221914Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:09:00 +00002006-04-25T14:37:05.350-04:00An article about MySpace in this past Sunday's New York Times mentions that Wendy's has created a profile for an animated square hamburger on the service - and signed up 100,000 very human friends willing to get emails, updates, and offers from their new buddy. This new form of advertising brings up a few questions: If we're having trouble navigating through the thicket of pages on the Internet http://www.mignon-media.com/blog/2006/04/corporate-profile-as-ad.htmlEliot Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/11657703/posts/summary/114528266561045845Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:01:00 +00002006-04-17T10:04:25.620-04:00The Center for Media Research reports on several consumer programs by leading companies showing strong ROI for online advertising. Addressable media is easily measured, the report shows, and the returns are even more impressive.http://www.mignon-media.com/blog/2006/04/online-advertising-works.htmlEliot Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/11657703/posts/summary/114442048906456636Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:22:00 +00002006-04-07T10:36:27.763-04:00Just one day after news on SMS going over IP, we have David Pogue's column (reg. required) on the VoSky Call Center, a $60 gizmo that allows you to make Skype calls over your phone handset - and cell phone! Untethered from your computer now, we can make free calls over phones that have until now been the exclusive ouput device for telcos. Disruption, disruption, disruption. The industry is http://www.mignon-media.com/blog/2006/04/phone-handset-calls-go-packeting.htmlEliot Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/11657703/posts/summary/114434713964121161Thu, 06 Apr 2006 17:51:00 +00002006-04-06T14:12:19.656-04:00The Economist reports (reg. required) this week that a new startup, Hotxt, is set to inject a bit more disruption for telcos. Following Skype's script, users download the Hotxt software to their handsets, like a ringtone or game, and, for about $1.75 per week and - get this - 1 cent per message, their notes are routed as IP packets over the Internet...and not over the telcos' messaging http://www.mignon-media.com/blog/2006/04/sms-goes-packeting.htmlEliot Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/11657703/posts/summary/114375008080686618Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:11:00 +00002006-04-04T16:24:57.433-04:00The New York Times had a small piece today on intrepid - and "always-on" - citizen editors on the Web uncovered a faked photo on the Website of California Congressional candidate Howard Kaloogian. First reported in Talking Points Memo, Kaloogian had accused "mainstream media" of not getting out positive stories about Iraq - and proceeded to show a photo of a street corner, complete with http://www.mignon-media.com/blog/2006/03/eyes-have-it.htmlEliot Bergson