Comments on: Blogging: a fad that’s peaked http://www.stephennewton.com/blogging-fad-thats-peaked/ ...stuff I've seen, stuff I've heard and stuff I've read Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Stephen Newtonhttp://www.stephennewton.com/blogging-fad-thats-peaked/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Stephen Newton Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:25:07 +0000 http://www.stephennewton.com/blogging-fad-thats-peaked.html#comment-180 On that last point, I have an example. I posted much of the above as a comment on James?s site, which he deleted. That?s okay, it?s his blog. But it does make me wonder by what principles James manages the content generated by visitors to his blog. It appears that dissenters are deleted, rather than engaged in debate and I don?t feel that principle will survive the trends James describes. On that last point, I have an example. I posted much of the above as a comment on James?s site, which he deleted. That?s okay, it?s his blog. But it does make me wonder by what principles James manages the content generated by visitors to his blog. It appears that dissenters are deleted, rather than engaged in debate and I don?t feel that principle will survive the trends James describes.

]]> By: Stephen Newtonhttp://www.stephennewton.com/blogging-fad-thats-peaked/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Stephen Newton Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:23:39 +0000 http://www.stephennewton.com/blogging-fad-thats-peaked.html#comment-181 Writing for the FT?s an impressive achievement, but my criticism stands. James has listed ten trends, not ten principles.Consumer control, scepticism and resistance to advertising are trends to be responded to, not principles (how new they are is debatable) [1,2]. Media fragmentation, niche Vs mass marketing ditto [3,4]. I don?t know if James refers to corporate governance or pressure to perform [5]. A call to respond to change is not a principle [6]. Behaviour is changing; yes, and?? [7]. Broadcast model broken, is repetition of trends three and four [8]. If broadband is a mass medium, as James suggests, it?s bucking the fragmentation trend and emulating the broken broadcast model. Isn?t it an enabler of media fragmentation? [9] On ?Consumer generated content?, James?s optimism requires justification (<a href="http://www.stephennewton.com/blogging-fad-thats-peaked/" rel="nofollow">see here</a>) [10]. Writing for the FT?s an impressive achievement, but my criticism stands. James has listed ten trends, not ten principles.

Consumer control, scepticism and resistance to advertising are trends to be responded to, not principles (how new they are is debatable) [1,2]. Media fragmentation, niche Vs mass marketing ditto [3,4]. I don?t know if James refers to corporate governance or pressure to perform [5]. A call to respond to change is not a principle [6]. Behaviour is changing; yes, and?? [7]. Broadcast model broken, is repetition of trends three and four [8]. If broadband is a mass medium, as James suggests, it?s bucking the fragmentation trend and emulating the broken broadcast model. Isn?t it an enabler of media fragmentation? [9] On ?Consumer generated content?, James?s optimism requires justification (see here) [10].

]]> By: Gareth Ellishttp://www.stephennewton.com/blogging-fad-thats-peaked/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Gareth Ellis Tue, 02 Nov 2004 18:33:55 +0000 http://www.stephennewton.com/blogging-fad-thats-peaked.html#comment-179 Are you joking James Cherkoff is the bang on! And the Financial Times doesn't seem to think he's a naive marketing consultant. He's their guest columnist this week. See http://www.collaboratemarketing.com/modernmarketing/2004/11/strongready_for.html Are you joking James Cherkoff is the bang on! And the Financial Times doesn’t seem to think he’s a naive marketing consultant. He’s their guest columnist this week. See http://www.collaboratemarketing.com/modernmarketing/2004/11/strongready_for.html

]]> By: Stephen Newtonhttp://www.stephennewton.com/blogging-fad-thats-peaked/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Stephen Newton Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:03:23 +0000 http://www.stephennewton.com/blogging-fad-thats-peaked.html#comment-178 A fair cop, text corrected. A fair cop, text corrected.

]]> By: Alex Singletonhttp://www.stephennewton.com/blogging-fad-thats-peaked/comment-page-1/#comment-177 Alex Singleton Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:13:20 +0000 http://www.stephennewton.com/blogging-fad-thats-peaked.html#comment-177 "Over at the Adam Smith Institute they?re propagating the blogs will revolutionise democracy myth."We are??? “Over at the Adam Smith Institute they?re propagating the blogs will revolutionise democracy myth.”

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