“Connecting the dots.”

- It hooks with TheE group profile. Lot’s of good writers, good archive. Lot’s of connections in different countries and cities. It is a new challenge for your workers who have created mainly black and white text so far. But I guess they are vain enough? It is sexy, isn’t it? The vanity and star effect will help to find good advisers for the media channel.
- The new channel could have some educational value. Connect those who want some advice and those who have some knowledge and experience.It could develop into some specialised encyclopedia business.
- Mass media is mostly about entertainment, you should not forget it. Make it educational AND entertaining. Just make one show that is equal to the the best of Cosby shows. That is a challenge. There will always be demand for quality entertainment? Its is like a good wine or painting, it gets more valuable as time passes.
- give something for free. Free email accounts have been a huge success story. So are free phone call that you could make via Internet.

Free AV books?

– create a library of good quality audio - video books that are printed on the DVD \ CD disks and could be rented for free. The media will change in forthcoming decades. 2007 in DVD, 2017 in holo-discs? I would bet that people around the world will get fattier tubes and broadband for their homes.
- Start small. Narrow the geographical scope. Save Africa? Or asia? or eastern-europe? Narrow the subject area. Environment and nature? Slave labour? Women in different societies, their problems?

Is it enough? Rock the world.

You guys are probably ok, but you msut understand that that the economiist is not open to innovatiion. plus all your ideas are shit. I really hope you work out from all of this without a jesus comlex.

PS Helen Alexander’s salary from the E alone is rumoured at 800k

I am affraid you are already one train behind

Look at http://www.nowpublic.com

And compare too:

“You can see how the relationship between a HiSpace site and its members would be substantially different to that enjoyed by most readers of mainstream media – not only would members of HiSpace consume information but they would also be the principal generators of such information. Certainly the ability to manage this “3D journalism” will become increasingly important for mainstream media companies.”

Roger