Saturday, May 10th, 2008
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I've been asked to speak at several events in the last year, discussing how technology is reshaping the media landscape.
One recurring meme in my talks is this: social media has changed the expectations of many people in terms of media, and if news organizations don't adopt ...
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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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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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The Zogby International polling group surveyed newspaper editors and found that most editors believe the newspaper of the future will have three features:
they will be free
they will have more opinion
they will include more comments
The report goes on to say that 30 percent of those editors survey wanted to ...
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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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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
The Internet Advertising Bureau has a series of studies on its site that track the local ad market throughout the last few years. There's loads of information, but the one fact that stood out: the local online advertising economy was expected to sustain local papers and television stations. By ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
I worked at Wired magazine as an editorial assistant in 1999 and as a staff reporter at Wired News from 2000-2002. My love for that place, at one time, knew no bounds. Part of me still longs for the days of Katrina Heron and Alex Heard, who was one of ...
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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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Friday, March 21st, 2008
There's been much chatter on Twitter recently about the nature of the mobile Tweet platform.
If that sentence just confused you, be thankful I haven't brought up the Great Color War of 2008. But I digress.
The point is this: Twitter, the mobile social network, is largely made up of the digerati, ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
I'll be honest, posting my talk on the site today brought a bit of trepidation. It's never good to put your views out there, even when your gut tells you that you're right. Or mostly right as I like to say. (Or often wrong, never in doubt as my dad ...
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