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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
I'm not going to tackle the entire arts and entertainment section at once because I'm less familiar with this section than I am with the others.
That realization has been a strange for me since John and I wrote a book about video games, have a quarter-finished book about anime and ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
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I've been threatening to review Joe Trippi's book about his role with the Howard Dean campaign in 2004, the campaign that tapped into the social media networks emerging online to not only raise more money than a candidate had ever done before but also to galvanize voters by ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Since games are on my mind these days, I've been keeping my eyes out for innovative ways that people are using Alternate Reality Game-like structures to solve problems.
The more I read about them, the more excited I am about the possibility of news organizations incorporating this community-styled project to engage ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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One of the most interesting propositions for newspapers is the overhaul of the business section.
There are more opportunities for important -- and audience-capturing -- features in this section than any other simply because, other than sports, the section relies more on raw data and numbers.
Traditional business papers should, ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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One of the rather disturbing trends I have experienced in my talks with newspaper folks is there insistence on latching on to the latest trend.
It's easy to get caught up in the mix. After all, new technologies roll out every day and if you're not careful, you can ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Normally, I try to add something to the conversation whenever I read articles and speeches, but there are times when I think it's best left to the words of those delivering the message.
This is one of those cases.
John S. Carroll is the former editor of several papers and he delivered ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
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Part of my lectures on the future of media are spent railing against newspapers companies inability to innovate in publishing, the very field they are the so-called experts in.
How, I ask, could a newspaper not have invented one of the first blogging content management system? These are simple ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
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The New York Times has a story about that traces how IDG, one of the largest tech news publishers, turned InfoWorld from a failing print magazine into a wildly profitable online-news operation.
There's two things that stand out to me from this piece:
how incredibly "duh" much of what the ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
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I've been trolling around the Web looking for a definition of social media. It's become a quest, although I hope it doesn't end with me latching on to a big white whale.
The listserv has given me great insight into the thinking of others, but I'm still uncomfortable.
Then I ...
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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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