Friday, March 21st, 2008
There's a lot of talk these days about community building, platforms for social networks and business/customer relationships.
These three seem to be the Holy Grail for newspapers. Tap into communities, give them tools to talk with each other and monetize the outcome. It's great in theory. It's absolutely wrong in practice.
You ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
I'm working on a story for ECT News right now about a new report by the Project in Excellence in Journalism research organization. The State of the News Media report is enlightening, and quantifies much of what the digerati have been discussing.
But there's even more that we don't discuss, such ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
My friends run a start-up company called Unwired Nation.
I first found out about it three years ago, here at SXSW. Eric Hellweg (online EIC for Harvard Business Review) and I met them at one of the Interactive parties. They spelled out their idea -- and, of course, I hated it. ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
I'm looking at comScore's Top 50 properties for Jan 2008. I'd link directly to them, but it's impossible because it's a Flash pop-up. However, I'll give you the rundown:
Yahoo: 184 million uniques
Google: 134 million uniques
Microsoft: 119 million uniques
AOL: ...
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