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Innovative Products for Digital Media

Welcome to SRmedia Digital Publishing, a digital workshop devoted to the creativity and craft of delivering news, information and entertainment through the internet to readers, listeners and viewers on their TVs, smartphones, tablets and home computers.

ABOUT THE PRINCIPAL


Stuart Rohrer produces innovative content for the converging worlds of the internet, digital television and mobile media devices.

He offers clients an uncommon combination of online publishing, digital TV and print experience, developed over 20 years as a digital producer, editor and product executive at media ventures on the leading edge of the digital revolution.

He has led digital product teams at HealthiNation, Cablevision's Rainbow Media, News Corp., The New York Times Co., and many internet startups and agencies.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Digital Content Strategy
  • Product Requirements and Roadmaps
  • Content and Application Development
  • Content Management
  • Multi-Platform Publishing
  • Metrics and Analytics

Special interests for 2012 include internet TV channels and enhanced e-books, particularly on travel, health care, arts & entertainment, education and literacy, personal investing, and magazine-style enthusiast content.

CONTACT

Email:  Stu [at] srmedia [dot] com

Tel: (212) 316-7875




insights & artifacts from the digital media landscape

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Book publishing reinvented

Amazon as book publisher: Friend or foe?

See Amazon imprints (via paidContent.org)

Amazon unveils plans to publish 122 books of its own this fall. End of the world, or dawn of a new day? Listen here as Jason Boog, editor of book industry blog GalleyCat, talks with Kurt Anderson on Studio360.

via Studio360            

Related: A clear-eyed assessment from PaidContent's Laura Hazard Owen: The Truth About Amazon Publishing, and historical perspective from Ben Tarnoff: The Worst Business in the World

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Appreciation: Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

At the intersection of liberal arts and technology

It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough — it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing — and nowhere is that more true than in these post-PC devices.

Steve Jobs introducing the iPad, March 2011

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Reinventing the music industry (chart animation)

30 Years Of Music Industry Change, In 30 Seconds Or Less...


Contribution of vinyl LPs, CDs and other formats to music industry profits, from digital music news

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remote sensing

Irene eyes the Eastern seaboard, Aug 28, 2011


Color-enhanced satellite photo of Hurricane Irene from "NOAA" (Aug 28, 2011)

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heat map

Blood on the Street, Aug 8, 2011


Map of the Market from "SmartMoney" (Aug 8, 2011)

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word cloud

Americans rate their representatives in Washington


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internet time

Time-lapse video of nine months of nytimes.com home page

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internet dinosaurs

Yahoo's woes: "Where else on the Web can you find, on the one hand, so many happy users whose growing numbers testify to their satisfaction in Yahoo’s services and, on the other, financial performance that is so lackluster?"
Randall Stross in "One Site Fits All, Except for Advertisers" --New York Times (Aug 7, 2011)

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Reinventing book publishing

Borders has gone the way of Tower Records, Hollywood Video, Virgin Megastore, Blockbuster, but happily, "the best locally-owned purveyors of physical media seem to be in better shape than the soulless megachains. San Francisco’s Amoeba Music, Le Video, and Green Apple Books, for instance, are sprawling, wonderfully quirky independents that are still very much with us."
Harry McCracken in "Decline and Fall of Physical Media Retailing: A Timeline" Technologizer (Feb 17, 2011)
 
See also New York Magazine's list of independent bookstores in Manhattan, and news of a reprieve for St. Mark's Bookshop in New York's East Village.

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order v chaos


Current world-wide internet service attacks
real time chart from Akamai

Worth a Look
Jeff Bezos demos
Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet on Sept. 28. (via TechCrunch)
Last week's
Movies on Demand
top 10 VOD movies via Rentrak

MOVIE AWARDS SEASON
Watch Jeff Brown's "Year in Film" conversation with A.O. Scott on PBS NewsHour.

New York's Museum of Modern Art is screening The Contenders, its selection of the best movies of 2011.
 
Save the date: Registration opens Jan. 24, 2012, for SRmedia's 8th annual Can You Beat the Crowd? Oscar challenge: "The best Oscar prediction contest on the net!"

HealthiNation produces and syndicates health and lifestyle video to millions of consumers
each month on digital cable television, leading web properties, connected devices, in doctors' offices and through employer wellness portals nationwide.

The alumni community site for Yale's Class of 1974, marking its 12th year on the web. (Password required.)

Informed Patient Institute reviews and ranks the best web sources of information about doctors and health facilities.

“If you are a fantasy baseball player, you absolutely owe it to yourself to experience Baseball Manager, the most realistic and addictive game on the internet.”

--Merlin


"Entrepreneurship is the ultimate extension of a liberal arts education."


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