The Future of Media Round Up features the top articles and blogs curated by Bateman Group each month on the issues and events related to the convergence of technology, media and communications.

Bateman Group welcomes Motista to the client roster. Based in San Mateo, Calif., the El Dorado-backed start-up offers a truly one-of-a-kind on-demand consumer connection intelligence solution destined to be disruptive to the way Fortune 1000 marketers do their jobs every day.

Bateman Group’s Lisa Melsted comments on Facebook hiring Burson-Marsteller to start a whisper campaign about Google and their privacy problems and the subsequent mutual fingerpointing after it was exposed.

What a spring it’s been! On the heels of opening our new Brooklyn offices in Park Slope, we immediately got to work on a major consumer campaign for Recyclebank. Called the “Green Your Home Challenge”, the campaign was a nationwide contest held throughout April (Why give the earth just one day?) designed to teach people [...]

The blurry line between bloggers and journalists reared its head again last week when All Things Digital’s reigning doyenne Kara Swisher outed fellow tech blogger Michael Arrington, editor in chief of TechCrunch, for not disclosing financial investments in companies that he regularly covers for the publication.  While a lot of people might think that Swisher [...]