by David | Mar 22, 2011 | Conspiracy Theories, Digital Migration
Doop-de-doop, just adjusting the settings on Safari so’s it doesn’t keep opening up a new window every time I click a link. It’s one of the default settings in Safari that I really deplore. Maybe this made sense back when Safari first came out, and...
by David | Oct 17, 2010 | advertising, Digital Migration, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch, Online Video
First in a series of videos taken during a panel discussion for PR Newswire at the LA Times building. On the panel with me, the delightfully funny and plainspoken Serena Ehrlich, who knows more about how to handle media in the digital age than the last...
by David | Jul 6, 2010 | Digital Migration, journalism, new media, Online Video
Tbilisi Journalist Graduation, originally uploaded by Wordyeti. These are the journalists from the smaller cities & towns outside of Tbilisi, Georgia. They’re all grinning happily, because they’ve managed to survive my intense one-week course, where I...
by David | May 19, 2010 | advertising, Digital Migration, Online Video, television
…HTML5? Not so much… In a move certain to cause much gleeful cackling and dry-washing of hands at Adobe HQ, Hulu and Delve announced that they are sticking with Flash, rather than making the Jobs-mandated move to HTML5. The money graf from Delve: Adobe...
by David | Mar 27, 2010 | Digital Migration, journalism, Newspaper Deathwatch
GM’s NUMMI plant in Fremont was the solution to their crisis.     So why did they ignore its lessons? I strongly urge you to listen to this great piece from This American Life about the NUMMI auto plant in Fremont. It’s about how the U.S. auto...
by David | Nov 29, 2009 | Digital Migration
Online KP.org password sign-up confuses me with other people with the same name, asks for data on people I haven’t seen for years. Against the advice of almost everyone I know, I recently switched from Anthem to Kaiser Permanente for our corporate health...