Dorian Benkoil, the host of the WebTV series Naked Media, is a principal at Teeming Media, a digital media events, research and editorial business consultancy.
Archive for Dorian Benkoil
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Kindle as Less of a Closed System
Finished the Amazon Kindle 2 e-reader news conference this morning, and you can read all about it all over the place, including my twitter feed, with hashtag #kindle.
I’ve asked for a review copy and will let you know what I think of it. From appearance, it’s a next generation of the device: thinner, a tad [...] -
Fundamental, Not Cyclical – Media Becoming a Different Beast
While the current economic crisis is unveiling a wealth of troubles for many businesses and industries, it’s also masking some fundamental issues. Advertisers, publishers and media companies will presume that, once the economy picks up again, and marketers assign larger budgets, that they, ad-supported media, will come roaring back with the economy.
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What the Economy Means for Media Investment
Investors here at the AlwaysOn media conference have been confirming in private discussions and on stage what angel investor David Rose said recently: that their money is having to stretch farther, that others are reluctant to come into the rounds as early.
One venture capital investor also told me he’s seeing “A Series pricing” for B [...] -
No Need for Newspapers to be Not-for-Profits
A NY Times Op Ed today suggests newspapers should move to a foundation-supported model and become 501(c)3 not-for-profits. Through that model, with its tax advantages, the newspaper business can survive, the authors write.
Their piece starts by quoting Thomas Jefferson, who said he’d prefer a country with newspapers and no government to the inverse. But [...] -
The Future (and Threat) to TV and TiVo
On Wednesday’s “Naked Media” live show (soon to be available on demand at NakedMedia.org), Web TV entrepreneur (and long-time TV animation executive) Fred Seibert talked about how TiVo brought a lot of viewers to the programs on his Next New Networks, home of everything from car enthusiast shows to Obama Girl on “Barely Political” to [...]
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Concerns Over the “Infinite TiVo”
Screenwriter John August writes that federal authorities should limit Comcast’s ability to provide DVR services based at Comcast’s facilities because that will effectively remove the desire for repeats and the residuals that come with them, as well as DVDs and the like. After all, if a consumer can get any TV show or movie they [...]
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Change Your Digital Life: Get a Biochip Implant?
In a special episode of Naked Media, digital media consultant and thinker (and sometimes Teeming Media collaborator) Amy Webb talks about trends that will have a huge impact on our digital life — and our media, including:
The geospacial Web. Stuff that knows where you are and sends you content (or ads and so on) accordingly.
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Does NY Mag Understand Newsweek’s Business?
In New York Magazine’s “numerical summary” of our economic times, they list the decline in the number of cars and light trucks sold, the proposed rise in the price of a transit farecard … And the decline in guaranteed circulation for Newsweek magazine from 3.1 million in 2007 to a proposed 1.6 million in [...]
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The Man Who Owns the News: Murdoch (or Wolff?)
A few blocks from last night’s New York Tech Meetup, a group of media-scenti gathered to celebrate the publishing of Michael Wolff’s new tome The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch. Topics of discussion included whether the New York Post would be put up for sale by Murdoch’s News [...]
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Fred Wilson Speaks (Well, Spoke) to Naked Media
During the summer, we headed over to the Widget Web Expo, and caught Union Square Ventures partner and noted blogger, Twitterer, speaker, analyst and investor Fred Wilson after he gave the keynote address. The video’s got some glitches (especially the audio), but it’s still worth posting. Our fault for not digging it out sooner.
Wilson talks [...]
