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Facebook & Pajamas Media: the “Site Traffic” Monetization Myth

by David | Feb 4, 2009 | advertising, Digital Migration, google, journalism, New Marketing, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers

This is going to have to be quick – I haven’t had any spare time to blog, since I’ve been finishing up on editing the Great Big Scary Project, and I have to churn out my intros to said project, along with sprucing up my multimedia examples for my...

Bailout Cash for Newspapers? A Cure That Would Only Worsen the Underlying Disease…

by David | Jan 30, 2009 | Blogs, Digital Migration, New Marketing, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Politics & New Media

I posted this as a comment here, already, but it bears repeating. While the concept of a bailout for newspapers (and allegedly for good journalism) seems attractive at first blush, I fear that in practice, the billions in bailout funds would suffer the same fate as...

E-Ink Chatter Getting Louder: Dying Newspapers May Jump to E-Paper Devices

by David | Jan 29, 2009 | Digital Migration, E-ink devices, Newspapers

I still think that obsessing on the platform that the news comes across on is symptomatic of a severe case of Missing The Point.  Let me say it again: viewing the newspaper crisis as being caused just because people don’t like buying paper anymore is akin...

APT on Shaky Ground: Yahoo’s Ad Sales Partnership with Newspapers

by David | Jan 19, 2009 | adsense clickfraud, Digital Migration, Newspaper Deathwatch

Three quick hits: 1. Here’s an interesting article about the one bit of bright news the newspaper industry had in the past year or so – the APT partnership with Yahoo that allowed newspapers to use Yahoo’s user-targeting technology to serve up ads....

Seattle P-I Stares Into The Abyss While the LA Times Web Operation Actually Makes Money

by David | Jan 12, 2009 | Digital Migration, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers

Short takes, because I’m editing stories these days, as well as writing 9 of the little buggers myself. First, there’s the news that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is up for sale, and that if it doesn’t sell in the next two months, it’ll either...

AsianWeek Kills Print Edition: A Growing Trend?

by David | Jan 1, 2009 | Digital Migration, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers

First day of the new year, reading through the S.F. Chronicle, ho-hum. Governator Arnie’s got a plan, despite being holed up in Sun Valley skiing, the local sports columnist wonders if Barry Bonds might make it back into the major leagues, despite facing Federal...
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