Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
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Newspapers are facing a serious problem. The more publishers are looking at their bottom lines the more they are seeing this: shrinking black on the print side and a large red on the web side.
But that's not always going to be the case, I hear people ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
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Buster Olney and Jayson Stark are my favorite writers at ESPN.com. Mostly because they cover baseball and I can't live without baseball (including MLB.tv, which for $10 per month lets me watch and listen to every baseball game each month through my computer, which is hooked up to ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
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I've been thinking a lot about what Mark Cuban told me a few months back. You'll see it referenced in previous and upcoming posts because it was maybe the best piece of advice I've been given when it comes to my book.
The essence of what he said as ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
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Borders Books is back. Back online anyway.
Seven years after striking a deal with Amazon to merge a large portion of its online operations, the brick-and-mortar bookseller announced it would strike out on its own in an attempt to sell books the new-fashioned way: through a website.
I'd characterize the ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
The first time I wrote about technology and entertainment was for the Austin Chronicle in 1997. It was my one -- and only -- feature piece for the weekly but it had a lasting impact on my view of this emerging world.
The piece was about Fringeware, a group of technophiles ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
"The canary in the coal mine."
That's how Jeff Jarvis describes the Twitter-verse in relationship to news organizations. He's thesis: every news agency should be using this type of service -- the mobile network where people can distribute 140-character messages to large groups of readers via text message -- to track ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Ever since John edited my book proposal, I've been thinking about what he said: your thesis is that each medium has to operate in its native state.
When he said that to me, it was so glaringly obvious that I knew it had to be true. I've been trying to figure ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
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Newspapers have a reader problem. And they have a Reader problem.
It's no secret that news organizations face declining readerships, prompting layoffs and corporate restructuring. For many in the industry, the end must seem near.
But it's never the pitfall you expect that gets you. You're prepared for those and ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
I received an email this weekend from an organization that built a news prediction site, something I've been discussing in the Newspaper 2.0 section and over at the NING social networking site.
The site is Hubdub and the developers have also put together software widgets that allow you to track results ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
The Modern Journalist NING social network has 3 folks who either have -- or are in the process of getting -- seed and start-up money for their ideas.
One of them just posted a basic outline for his idea, which was awards a Knight News Challenge grant to get the idea ...
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