Archive for the ‘Live Writer’ Category

The Innovator’s Dilemma: How You Know When You’re Screwed

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia 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 ...

IDG: Transforming Print to Online

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia 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 ...

A Newspaper’s Platform for Social Media or Why Games Will Save the Media

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Image via Wikipedia 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 ...

The Future of Everything. A Listserv Discussion.

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Image via Wikipedia 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 ...

Hillary Hartley’s Social Media Definition

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I've been hammering on and on about a definition of Social Media. I'm not sure there is one that will ever encompass the entire sphere, but we've been getting closer on the listserv. One of the people I'm interviewing for the book, Hillary Hartley, sent me her definition in picture form. Check ...

Editorial Page 2.0

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 ...

The New, New Identity Theft. Socially Speaking.

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Image via Wikipedia 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 ...

Steve Pearlstein Knows What Everyone Wants

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia Pulitzer Prize winning business writer Steve Pearlstein gave a talk at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference this week. Unbeknownst to me, the solution to the news industry's failings have already been figured out. You can read the full story here, but check out this excerpt: “And ...

We Built It and Nobody Came. Stupid Nobodies.

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia 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 ...

Mapping the Community. The Way to Truly Interactive Stories.

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia All the blog research says that you're headlines should be of a positive nature to attract readers. I don't always do that. I'm doing it right now. ::Props:: I've been scanning The Wired Journalist site, a place where journalists can congregate to discuss what's going on at the papers -- ...