Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
I've been saying for months that the end of the banner has already happened, but folks in the newspaper industry -- at least the ones I've spoken with -- tell me I'm crazy.
Or they look at me like I'm crazy before walking away.
The reason I believe this: we ...
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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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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I worked on a story yesterday for Ecommerce Times about Gawker Media selling off three of its properties. In the course of reporting the story, I talked to an author who researched trends in media. His take: people are moving from a personality-centric news source to an aggregation service that ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The New York Times and Google created a mashup tool that allows The Times' reporters to geo-locate their news on Google Earth. This idea is very cool, so I want to make sure this post doesn't come off as pooping on the innovation, particularly since I don't think news ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
In 2006, newspapers were patting themselves on the back for partnering with Google and Yahoo (I believe) to help sell advertising in both print and online.
At the time, I was winding up my time at Technology Review; however, I was adamant that we not look into similar deals for magazines. ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
My contention is that banner ads and the like are quickly going the way of the DoDo, despite Microsoft and Yahoo's efforts to develop rich media planning software -- and Google's closing on its DoubleClick purchase.
The nature of the Web -- from how we browse (we don't) to how it's ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
I've been covering the FCC Wireless Spectrum Auction on-and-off for the ECT News Network. Today, the auction closed, with four of the five main Blocks official sold. The fifth -- for public safety and private partnerships -- didn't make the cut.
The $19 billion auction, though, is most significant because of ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Coming home from South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi), I was struck by the number of regular joes and joannies who have moved into the video blogging space. I'm using vlog generically because folks like Gary over at Wine Library label what they do a blog -- it feels different. Maybe ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
I love the AIR applications, although honestly they are pretty dork-bot right now. Hopefully that will change. The one I am awaiting: Google Reader.
I posted about my issues with Lifestreaming, but with Google Reader on my mobile -- and the RSS feeds from all my friends and such running through ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
I'm oftentimes surprised at how reporters work these days.
Some of them are walking, talking technologists. They have synched phones that receive email, wire service updates, instant messages, twitters. You name it, they have it.
Then there are others who are old school. No IM. No email. It's straight face-to-face reporting.
I make ...
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