"When you're transforming a company, and you're really trying to drive fundamental change, early success is both your best friend and your best enemy." Louis Gerstner

Image at left - the back of my business card. The creator, Hugh MacLeod, blogs here and sells his very cool "blog cards" here. My card always gets notice and always rave reviews. Highly recommended, do get yours.

Lee Abrams is blogging...

"JUST DO IT!: No bragging...no cheezy claims . No "Most Music" "Best Mix" "Never a Bad Song"........Those claims have no credibility. Just deliver the goods and our fans will know."

Bravo Lee! Lee's "AFDI" is excellent counsel, make something happen! More here, here and here

Dave Winer writes...

"Imho, the web is a platform for idealism. It's not a conversation, it's not a business model, it's so big it's basically everything having to do with human knowledge and communication, at least for the forseeable future. Let them have Web 2.0™, it's not important. What is important is that the users are running the show, and if you want to get behind that, be a user, and leave it at that." Exactly, the two point oh rights debate is a waste of bandwidth, nothing to see here, let's move along, please. More Dave here

Doc Searls' Reboot8 presentation here, well done! Doc gets right to the point in this slide here. His pics from Reboot8 here. The event, by all accounts, was tight - program is here. Stowe Boyd provides a solid review here. Check out Stowe's Reboot8 presentation here, also very well done!

It was Stowe who wrote in an earlier post "I personally am not tired of conferences. I am just tired of tired conferences. Particularly the ones with the same group of twenty talking heads saying the same twenty things." Bravo! Exactly the problem with most all conferences these days.

TNS data indicates total media spending in Q1 is up 5.2%, while radio is down (local -1.1%, national -0.2, network radio -3.5%). NAA reports $615 mil in newspaper online ad sales in Q1, up 34.9% from one year ago. Dead tree guys continue to lead MM in developing online revenues. Lots of $$$ and opportunity ahead for those willing to abandon what is not working and get into the game. More from paidContent here

Katy Bachman, always a good read, writes about Fox News Radio...

"Traditional radio news services like ABC and CBS might want to take a word of advice from CNN and MSNBC: Don't underestimate upstart Fox News Radio." More here

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"...the key to success is focusing on the three to five battles that really matter" From Must-Win Battles: How to Win Them Again and Again.

Any must-win battle, the authors write, needs five elements: It must make a real difference, be market-focused, create excitement, be specific and tangible, and—of course—be winnable. “One reason the management teams sometimes do choose must-win battles that prove to be unwinnable is that they assume the competition will not react to what they are doing” More

Here are my five "must-win battles" for any serious media enterprise...

1) Ratings 2) Revenue 3) Talent development 4) Online development 5) Community service

Future of the Internet...

The biggest shift over the next ten years will be one of attitude, as our mindset of "going online" is replaced by one of "being online". This change has already started...

By the year 2016, no one under the age of forty will remember a world without personal computers. The average twenty year old will find it hard to imagine a time when there wasn't any email to check or Web sites to visit. When we reach this point, even the novelty of the term "Internet" will have long since faded to join such golden buzz-words of yesteryear as "space age" and "atomic"...

The Internet generation of today will eventually give us the Citizen Kane of the 21st century. Michael Pinto via the PBS show NOW, more here.