Sips from the Firehose
  • Home
  • #2424 (no title)
  • Biography
  • Home
  • hub
  • adsense clickfraud
  • advertising
  • Amusing Nonsense
  • Blogging
  • Blogs
  • Conspiracy Theories
  • Design
  • Digital Migration
  • E-ink devices
  • Foodstuffs
  • Friday Noon Videos
  • google
  • Gulp With Enthusiasm
  • HDR Photography
  • infographic
  • journalism
  • Lemmings
  • Mobile commerce
  • music
  • New Marketing
  • new media
  • newspaper crisis
  • Newspaper Deathwatch
  • Newspapers
  • Online Video
  • Politics & New Media
  • Sip With Assurance
  • Sip With Caution
  • television
  • Twitter advertising
  • Ukraine
  • UX/UI
  • Vastness
  • Video
Select Page

Sarah Palin and “Colors”: A Lesson in Image Control

by David | Oct 24, 2008 | Blogging, Blogs, journalism, New Marketing, new media, Online Video

One of the key moments in “Colors” came when “Pacman,” the young hothead cop (Sean Penn) was incorrectly identified as the guy that mistakenly shot an innocent black kid during a raid gone wrong.  The word came down that the gangs, in...

Replacing Newspapers: A Cocktail Approach

by David | Oct 6, 2008 | advertising, Blogs, Design, Digital Migration, journalism, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers, Online Video

I hate like hell to keep doing quick, off-the-cuff bites at such big topics, but maybe I should just resign myself to accepting the web ethos of not trying to do all things at once.  Yeah, yeah, I know – “Eat the elephant one bite at a time.”So...

Welcome to the Artesian Media blog

by David | May 26, 2008 | Blogging, Blogs, Design, Digital Migration, journalism, Newspapers, Online Video

I’ve been blogging for more than three years now on the Typepad platform, and have finally taken the leap to WordPress.  It’s not because Typepad was bad – although it was a little clunky at first, and I haven’t ever really been happy with...
Next Entries »

Why Sip?

Because surfing the Internet is like drinking from a firehose, David LaFontaine braves the torrent to tell you what trends and technologies to gulp down, swirl in your mouth, or spit out.

Recent Posts

  • The Poison Metric That May Kill Your Newsroom: Podcast
  • Quick Hit: Alt-text Unintended Consequences & Image-generating AI
  • Heather Armstrong, aka “Dooce” Was So Very Many Things
  • Google Analytics 4 Fundamentals: My Class on Pluralsight
  • The Dangers of Over-Design: supply-chain breakdown is what happens when we get TOO efficient

Tags

advertising Amusing Nonsense Art Blogging Blogs Colombia Community Conspiracy Theories Current Affairs Denial of Reality Design Ethiopia Film google journalism Mobile advertising technology monetizing mobile content Multimedia music New Marketing new media New Media Migration New Media Strategery newspaper crisis Newspaper Deathwatch Newspapers Online (Multi)Media Online Video paywalls Platform obsession Politics & New Media Politix Pop Culture Quirkiness social media Social Media monetization television Travel Uncategorized Viral Fame visual storytelling Web/Tech Webconomics Weblogs Web Tech Wrongheaded solutions

Categories

Archives

November 2025
M T W T F S S
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
« Aug    

For Your Computer’s Pleasure…

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Designed by David LaFontaine
Senior UX Designer and Researcher