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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
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My buddy David posted a thread on the listserv titled "The Future of Everything."
He asked a simple question. Which of these two alternatives is likely to occur:
Once all the digital hullabaloo dies down, new media will work an awful lot like old media.
Efforts to staple the old media ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I don't want to be one of those people who sits back, lobbing grenades simply to see what happens after the explosion. For this to be worthwhile in any manner, it seems like I need to articulate a vision for Newspaper 2.0.
I've been outlining ideas for a sports section, business ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
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When I first started surfing around on the Web professionally, I never thought about registering my name.
Back then, in fact, very few people used their actual name. We had avatars that weren't our pictures. We had screen names. It was rare that you came across someone who had ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
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Rick Edmonds has a post at Poynter discussing the decline of print readers and the slow adoption of online readers at newspapers.
The contention is that online will not grow enough for some time -- maybe ten years -- to replace the readership that has left. There are some ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The Modern Journalist reader TJ, webmaster for WWJ 950 in Detroit, instant messaged me a story about the top eight Ohio newspapers sharing content with each other.
It seems the top papers, which are spread geographically far enough that there is little competition between them, have set up an Intranet ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Research for a book means reading lots of other books, finding out what discussions other experts in your field are having and parsing out the salient points they miss.
For all intents and purposes, this is social media for authors. Those of us who still love the written word and long ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
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There's been talk in the blogosphere about the effect of lifestreaming applications on blogs and traditional media companies.
Forget the advertising issues that RSS raises, for instance. What's ultimately more important is tracking the conversation that begins in one place across multiple networks, making sure that you are somehow ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
I've updated the reading list with a few conferences and books I'm reading for research on MY book. If you have suggestions, please comment here. I'm also looking for good conferences. HELP!
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
There's a new study by eMarketer that found that more than 90 percent of kids are online these days, and that most parents say 11-13 years old is the proper time for kids to start using email.
In other words, the digital switch is on. For real this time.
There's a lot ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
I'm completely baffled whenever I read stories about the changing media landscape and layoffs. The world has very clearly changed dramatically in terms of media, consumption, creation and audience. We know this. We know that it's left the realm of the technophiles and moved into a more mainstream ...
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