Media sites offering free content – Cloud computing round table
This is very cool and something we’re likely to see more of. High tech publication, The Register, has recently started offering a series of free webcasts on its website, theregister.co.uk. While webcasts are nothing new, tech sites post things like gadget reviews all the time, what sets this series apart is the content.
Yesterday, The Register had this post,
This is the first in a series of webcasts featuring interesting (or deadly dull) conversations about industry news and trends. These webcasts are hosted by Dan Olds, the principal analyst for Gabriel Consulting Group, a boutique IT industry analyst firm located in the US. Dan is a reasonably smart guy, has been around the industry for quite a while, and, more importantly, seems to have a viewpoint and attitude that fits in well around here.
These webcasts will come in two flavours: the first is a chat session with an industry expert about some interesting topic or trend. In other webcasts, we will spotlight an IT vendor and give their products and strategies a good looking over. These webcasts will be different from the normal run of the mill vendor infomercial. We’re looking to do a webcast that has a lot more meat (at least 30 per cent more) and asks meaningful questions – the types of questions (hopefully) that you yourself would ask…only we won’t use as many obscenities.
The program below is a “Analyst Roundtable” chat with Jonathan Eunice from technology analyst firm Illuminata.
In this 30-minute webcast, Dan and Jonathan discuss Cloud computing – past, present and future. So give it a listen (and check out the slides too) and let us know what you think….
Now, what some readers might not know, but high-tech folks will pick up on immediately, is that sessions with IT analysts can cost thousands of dollars a pop. Even a webcast, delivered to your company can easily run over a thousand dollars, so The Register is definitely breaking new ground offering the content for free. One wonders if this is going to be a new trend as the media compete for readers in a competitive, hard it, economy.
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