by David | Mar 26, 2009 | Digital Migration, New Marketing, new media, Online Video
Calacanis referred to this as “The Bridge.” He starts off with a little more digital triumphalism, and then talks about the real numbers behind the economic downturn, and the 20% chance of civil unrest, riots in the streets, cats&dogs living together,...
by David | Mar 26, 2009 | Digital Migration, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers, Video
Advertising, Riots, Twitter, Facebook and the Depression Curmudgeons skip directly to 7:50 or so, for the juicy bits. If you are in a crowded place, please allow at least 10 feet of safety space in all directions for when your head explodes. This is the first part of...
by David | Mar 20, 2009 | Digital Migration, journalism, New Marketing, new media, Newspapers
InDenver Launches – Rocky Mountain News Staffers DIY News Project If the future of news is that it will live as a web-only play, then the InDenver and Seattle PI sites, which are (to use the horticultural metaphor) scions of the original papers are perhaps...
by David | Mar 18, 2009 | Digital Migration, New Marketing, new media, Newspapers
The Big Scary Project that I’ve been yammering about for the last five months is finally live & open for business. The Audience Planbook was designed to guide newspaper execs through the process of transforming their familiar (but no longer safe) businesses...
by David | Mar 10, 2009 | advertising, Design, Digital Migration, New Marketing, Online Video
To quote Michael Corleone: “Everytime I think I’m out – they draaaaag me back in!” I just got done with a Big Scary Article for the NAA about charging for online content. I’ve marinated myself in all sorts of arcane data about how...
by David | Feb 24, 2009 | Digital Migration, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
The last couple of months have seen the weaker papers in two-newspaper towns file for bankruptcy, fire their staffs & announce impending doom. A lot of this can be written off as the natural consequences of a contracting ad market and an epically bad...
