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 ...

Harper Collins Says: No Advance for You, POD People.

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

I'm a big fan of print on-demand for several reasons: It doesn't make sense to print more books than you've sold; It doesn't make sense for authors to give up their copyrights for no good reason; It doesn't make sense ...

Journalists Get Their Own News Aggregator

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Well, I took a day off to attend the Cincinnati Reds Opening Day (loss) Celebration. Now we're back to news about journalism. A VC firm has funded a news aggregation service for journalists. The company, Publish2, is the latest in a series of human-search oriented websites that remove technology ...

Why Jobs is an Idiot, er, Why We Read More

Monday, March 17th, 2008

A few months back, Steve Jobs announced to the world that we are reading less today than we ever have before. I almost spit out my corn flakes. I ripped off a blog about the ignorance -- and arrogance -- of that statement. It's as if Jobs, one of the men ...