In a Google Images search for Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalism we were surprised to see the first result: "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
Not that Tobe Hooper's 1974 indie horror film isn't worthy of some kind of award for dramatic photography. (Only an unflinching cameraman is brave enough stand down a chainsaw wielding Leatherface.)
But how did a harbinger to the slasher film genre get mixed in with lionized hard-news war photography like "Napalm Girl" and "Saigon Execution?"
Blame the Google Images algorithm for being unable to discern fact from fiction.
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Google maintains throughout its positioning with the FTC that much of the innovation in the .jpg)
battle for paid content online must be done by publishers themselves.
Clearly, a publisher’s best chance for winning the digital “war” is in arming themselves with the best, the most up-to-date, and relevant insights into their content, advertising, traffic and revenue potential.
This is Perfect Market's raison d’etre.
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So many online skirmishes.
There’s Yahoo and AOL vs. DemandMedia. And then there’s always Facebook vs. Google.
That’s the thing about techno-capitalism, it sets up some exciting rivalries. Facebook vs. Google is the new Apple vs. Microsoft (unless, of course, Steve Ballmer suddenly steps up.)
The latest development in the saga occurred this week, when Facebook confirmed (as reported by Nick O’Neil of AllFacebook.com) that “all Open Graph-enabled web pages will show up in search when a user likes them.”
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And they say summer is slow?
After last week’s flurry of announcements from AOL and Google, could I be blamed for starting the week expecting fewer announcements from media behemoths?
On the heels of the Google vs. DemandMedia speculation comes the news that Google has debuted a “one-click tool” to allow easy online checkouts for paid content–essentially a PayPal for the paywall.
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First it was Yahoo, then AOL and now Google is starting to encroach on DemandMedia’s “demand” content creation space.
The Financial Times reported yesterday in “Google shadow over new media groups” that the dominant search engine obtained a patent for “technology that could position it to compete with a new breed of digital media companies that are generating story ideas for the internet by mining online search data.”
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This week in “Pulse of Publishing” we take a look at the way a media Goliath (Google) and a media David (the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles) are thinking about new business models for news. What did we learn? From giant aggregator to the niche publications, it’s all about effective content creation, distribution and monetization.
Google Helps Publishers: We say, “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.”
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The final day at Web 2.0 began with a thoughtful keynote speech on the state of the web by new media guru Tim O’Reilly.
O’Reilly was full of wisdom on how to succeed in this speed-of-light internet era. “Don’t invent for the world that exists now,” he advised. The key is figuring out “where this is going.”
O’Reilly’s keynote focused on the state of the web’s different major platforms: Google, Amazon and Facebook. While he, like so many others here at Web 2.O, praised Facebook for being the leader in the new direction for the web, O’Reilly’s reasoning behind this praise was both unique and insightful.
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There seems to be a prevalent theme here at Web 2.0 San Francisco. It is that it often takes repeated looks into the past to better appreciate the present.
Day 3 at Web 2.0 began with keynotes and an archival video (yesterday’s keynotes also included a humorous and topical vintage advertising film). This 1950s-era video documented the wonder and awe that came with transcontinental phone calls and highlighted the awesomeness that was the rotary phone.
Conference organizer Sarah Milstein explained that the archival videos were selected to demonstrate that even as technology has evolved, our human response to these technological advances has remained consistent.
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Sometimes it feels like my inbox is a virtual Christmas tree where presents come in the form of Google alerts and media newsletters. I click on them greedily, like a child tearing at wrapping paper, eager to see what lies inside.
Sadly, more often than not, I find a fuzzy pink rabbit suit.
But some days, it’s the Red Ryder BB Gun I always wanted.
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23 July 2010 By Perfect Market
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