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Venezuelan currency – are any of these bills still used?

by David | Oct 18, 2016 | Digital Migration

While rummaging around the various souvenirs and mementoes from all our travels, I ran across these:  With the inflation rate running in the near-four-figure range (the way it did in ’88 when I was an overwhelmed editor there), I wonder if there is even a...

Should Local News Be Marketed as “Infrastructure”?

by David | Feb 20, 2016 | Digital Migration, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers

Ken Doctor at Neiman’s “Newsonomics” points out that the “self-asphyxiation” cycle is nearing endgame I cross-posted a response to this on Facebook, so if you’ve already seen it there from me, my apologies. But I’ve been...

Brainwashed User Confesses: “I Was a Human Bot-net for Klout”

by David | Feb 2, 2016 | Digital Migration, New Marketing, Sip With Caution

Industry-leader social management tool Hootsuite “deprecates” Klout – but who’s next? Klout, you were mean to us and made us like it. You made us feel inadequate, and spend far too many hours indulging in unnatural behaviors to please your...

Mary Meeker’s yearly “Future of Internet” PowerPoint

by David | May 29, 2015 | Design, Digital Migration

Shorter: Mobile is still undervalued. Hackers suck. China is about over; India is next. Professional content producers still doomed. But good design still matters. Every year, Mary Meeker produces a massive presentation that quickly makes the rounds on Teh Interwebz...

Five classes. Two years. One graduation day.

by David | May 18, 2015 | Digital Migration, journalism

The kids are all right. Despite my best efforts… On Friday, I had five cohorts of students graduate from Annenberg-USC. Three graduate student cohorts (broken down into two cohorts that attended USC for two years, and one in the brand-new one-year accelerated...

What is “native advertising” anyway?

by David | Apr 8, 2015 | advertising, Digital Migration

The IAB has published their view. I have my own opinion. One of the biggest problems with “native advertising” is that it is such a new, made-up term of digital art, that it’s taken on an Alice in Wonderland-esque quality, in which the phrase means...
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