Media sentiment predicts eurozone collapse

Some recent findings regarding media sentiment. As I already pointed out earlier in our Dow Jones PR blog, there are astonishing parallels between the media talking about a possible eurozone break-up and the Spanish yield curves.
We searched for the terms euro/eurozone break-up/collapse and related words. The result was a peak in early December 2011, prior to a critical EU summit in Brussels. The outcome of the meeting (and the ECB) were calming the markets in the following weeks, but now it appears that the fear about the euro is back.
It's visible on today's spike in the Spanish bond yields - most-watched as the battle for Spain likely decides the fate of the single currency.
Mentions of "Euro Break-up" were already raising to a new year high in the last week. 683 documents referred to it, according to data collected from Factiva. And it seems to be just the beginning.

Data rules the world

Blogging is cool again. Hundreds of new mainstream blogs are mushrooming in the big newsrooms, the FT, WSJ or the NYT reporters being very prolific. The world is longing for more analysis and commentary! Real-time blogging and live desks are the newest trend. The FT was setting up one and so did the Journal. Our life as a stream - we pick our influencers and they feed us the information we need. Instantly. At any time.


Since the beginning of the year we provide some media data to the new Wall Street Journal Deutschland in Frankfurt. They created this fantastic graphic here. It shows the DAX CEOs that are most appearing in newspapers, magazines and trade press. Volkswagen chief Martin Winterkorn is currently number 1, ousting Deutsche Bank’s Joseph Ackermann who was on the top during the entire last year. More to come...

The era of the cloud 2

I'm still typing this blog comment on my laptop, but both blogs as well as laptops are "old school" again. Just read a remarkable article from Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff. According to him we are just transitioning to the "Cloud 2" and the iPad, on sale this weekend, is the most obvious manifestation.
From Pull to Push: "Pulling" information from databases and newspapers is declining, our friends and trusted sources push the news to us instead. Information appears in streams and feeds. The prevailing tools are Twitter, Facebook and Youtube.

I'm currently receiving three different information feeds, a "paywall" feed, that I'm getting via Factiva, a blog/web feed on Google Reader and a Twitter feed, where I directly follow thought leaders of the areas I'm interested in. With this I feel prepared for the era of the Cloud 2. Just need to upgrade my hardware...

Update: In the same context, Jeff Jarvis is commenting on one of Benioff's postulates, the move from creation to consumption. It is nothing else than a strategy of the media companies to regain control about the democratised social media space. The iPad "does not include a simple (fucking) USB port, which means that I can’t bring in and take out content easily."

From this angle, apps are also appearing in a negative light:

"This shift to apps is a move in precisely the opposite direction. Apps are more closed, contained, controlling. That, again, is why media companies like them. But they don’t interoperate — they don’t play well — with other apps and with the web itself; they are hostile to links and search."

The iPad is the Trojan Horse that lures us into the paywall castle, with the gates firmly shut down.