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Are Web metrics corrupting online media?

July 20, 2015: We’re supposed to be living in an “attention economy,” right? But standard Web metrics don’t really measure attention. Uniques, page views, monthly…

https://www.frankrose.com/blog/are-web-metrics-polluting-online-media/

How Web metrics encourage linkbait and clickbait sites to proliferate—at the expense of actual journalism.

Smartphones, journalism, and an elusive golden age

Aug. 7, 2014: Can the smartphone really save journalism? Can anything save journalism? Both those questions have been raised in response to my essay in the current…

https://www.frankrose.com/blog/smartphones-journalism-and-that-elusive-golden-age/

Tribeca transmedia: The power of ‘Sandy Storylines’

May 3, 2013: Images are powerful, stories even more so. But how do you collect them from hundreds if not thousands of people and present…

https://www.frankrose.com/blog/tribeca-transmedia/

If Book Then . . . what now? Books face the future

April 4, 2013: What’s a book, anyway? The answer used to be simple: two covers, a lot of words in between, printed on paper and meant…

https://www.frankrose.com/blog/if-book-then-books-face-the-future/

Data dump: Unlike Facebook—or tax it?

March 1, 2013: Douglas Rushkoff’s announcement earlier this week that he was quitting Facebook happened to coincide with a major…

https://www.frankrose.com/blog/data-dump-unlike-facebook-or-tax-it/

Henry Jenkins on ‘Spreadable Media,’ why fans rule, and why ‘The Walking Dead’ lives

Jan. 17, 2013: “If it doesn’t spread, it’s dead”: With this pithy dictum, Henry Jenkins summed up the…

https://www.frankrose.com/blog/henry-jenkins-on-spreadable-media/

And the future of storytelling is . . .

Oct. 10, 2012: Okay, I give up—what is the future of storytelling? Last Friday’s Future of StoryTelling conference, held in a tranquil and…

https://www.frankrose.com/blog/future-of-storytelling/

How ‘Pepys Road’ takes you into the fictional world of Britain’s coming ‘Lost Decade’

April 11, 2012: Some of the most intriguing innovations in storytelling these days are happening in the UK, where broadcasting…

https://www.frankrose.com/blog/how-pepys-road-takes-you-into-the-world-of-britains-lost-decade/

How trans is your media? (Part 1)

Nov. 19, 2009: The deep media approach to storytelling is clearly gaining momentum. At last year’s Future of Television East conference in New York, the focus…

https://www.frankrose.com/blog/how-trans-is-your-media-part-1/

Ad sense? Googlenomics and the tyranny of click-through

May 27, 2009: The June issue of Wired has a provocative piece by my colleague Steven Levy on Googlenomics—that is, Google’s extraordinary success at transforming…