Last weeks of the year busy with TV appearances, first with Steve Vines on The Pulse in Hong Kong to discuss the impact of Social Media on traditional media. Interesting discussion with Chris Kyme from Eight Partnership and Masato Kajimoto from the Department of Journalism at Baptist University.

Contrary to what these images seem to portray, I do not think the death of traditional media has been accelerated as a result of my departure from newspapers!

I do, however, believe that the forces at work against the traditional media model are much more powerful than most people recognize. Specifically, as companies get better at using Social Media, they will see less need to pay a “tax” for advertising in traditional media when they can reach customers themselves.

The other appearance was on Al Jazeera to discuss the case brought by Chinese writer Mian Mian against Google for scanning her books.

As I said to Al Jazeera, the Mian Mian case is another chapter in the battle ongoing battle between the analog and digital worlds.