Monday, May 5th, 2008
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I've been toying around with social media all day today, discussing the future of media with lots of smart friends -- particularly those who think that I'm a little half-cocked and off my rocker when it comes to the future of journalism.
It's good, mostly. It certainly ...
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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 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
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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 -- ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
I'm reading Mark Glaser's recap of my alma mater's latest journalism conference, Crisis in News.
Now, I'm not going to bag on Glaser or my school because frankly, I don't know Glaser and I paid a boatload of money to go to Cal-Berkeley. However, I am going take issue with the ...
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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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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
CBS Interactive announced that it would reorganize its management structure on April 17 in order to build a better interactive experience for its users.One of the more telling moves, I think, is that Byron Rubin -- who worked in mergers & acquisitions (M&A) -- moves from CBS corporate to CBS ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
A friend of mine read this story in CNN and sent it to me."You have to write about this," she said, when she heard about my book idea. So, I'm writing about it. It's maybe the best use of a blog by the mainstream press that I've seen in some ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
The book is dead. We know this because Steve Jobs told us this a few months back. Now, the Society of Authors concurs, according the London Times. Rampant piracy, unauthorized electronic books and a shrinking return on investment for publishers is going to send authors scurrying for ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
That's the quote that jumped out at me while I was reading (the first page) of The New Yorker article by Eric Alteramn.
It's a scathing review of the industry, which is exactly the kind of review the industry needs. This week alone I've had a half-dozen new media types instant ...
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