http://www.netsquared.org/tags/media-2-0 share stories about how web-based technologies are impacting people’s lives build toolkits for nonprofits around the globe to help extend their good work en-US http://www.netsquared.org/blog/anardelli/a-2-0-innovation-gap-or-1-0-senility <p>A recent article on the Financial Times about <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e2a439cc-378b-11db-bc01-0000779e2340.html">a lack of skills and experience within the web advertsiment sector</a> got me thinking about how the challenge is part of a wider picture in 2.0. </p> <p>In a nutshell there seems to be a gap between 2.0 &quot;real-time&quot; and the sources of information that are meant to provide relevant players with the needed information and insights, if these are delayed then ultimately so is the development of skills and experience. I have been tracking data for a while, and noticed a widening gap as the information deepens. I believe the trend is integral to the very nature of the source and &quot;information providers&quot;:</p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/anardelli/a-2-0-innovation-gap-or-1-0-senility">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/anardelli/a-2-0-innovation-gap-or-1-0-senility#comments consulting media 2.0 newspapers print research strategy Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:56:19 -0400 anardelli 2022 at http://www.netsquared.org http://www.netsquared.org/blog/anardelli/media-should-position-itself-in-the-fat-belly <p>Yesterday I came across an interesting&nbsp; piece on GigaOM about the &quot;Fat Belly&quot; (<a href="http://featured.gigaom.com/2006/09/04/digg-that-fat-belly">original piece linked here</a>), that added on to Chris Anderson&#39;s Long Tail theory (<a href="http://www.thelongtail.com">read about it here</a>). In a nutshell: Anderson&#39;s theory divides the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law">power law distribution curve</a> into two segments, a big head, a tall peak that represents things like top search queries, main current news issues, a blockbuster film, mass products etc... and rapidly drops and extends into a long tail, all the niche searches, stories, products, indie-music, B-movies etc... to put it simply, people search/buy/consume/are intereseted in &quot;less of more&quot;. The GigaOM piece adds to the equation a middle bit, the fat belly, that gathers social networks, online communities, aggregators (like digg) etc...</p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/anardelli/media-should-position-itself-in-the-fat-belly">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/anardelli/media-should-position-itself-in-the-fat-belly#comments innovation models long tail media media 2.0 strategy Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:12:10 -0400 anardelli 2017 at http://www.netsquared.org