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Quick Hits: Old Media Loses Trust in France, OC Register May Go Tabloid and Google Only Spys On You For Nine Months Now

by The Wordyeti | Sep 10, 2008 | journalism, newspaper crisis

Still up in lovely Point Reyes, decompressing and re-imagining our web presence, so the output here has been seriously cramped.  However, these three little items just beg for notice. 1. We've all seen the "MSM sucks, don't believe what it says"...

Quick Hits: Old Media Loses Trust in France, OC Register May Go Tabloid and Google Only Spys On You For Nine Months Now

by David | Sep 10, 2008 | Blogging, Digital Migration, google, journalism, Lemmings, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers

Still up in lovely Point Reyes, decompessing and re-imagining our web presence, so the output here has been seriously cramped.  However, these three little items just beg for notice. 1. We’ve all seen the “MSM sucks, don’t believe what it...

Curmudgeon: It’s What’s For Dinner

by David | Jul 18, 2008 | Digital Migration, journalism, Lemmings, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers

More articles about the noxious effect of curmudgeons on the newspaper industry. This meme has really taken off in the last couple of weeks; I sense a great deal of pent-up frustration on both sides of this ideological debate. If this were an ABC Afterschool Special,...

What Automakers (and Newspapers?) Can Learn from the iPhone

by David | Jul 16, 2008 | Digital Migration, journalism, Lemmings, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers

This is going to have to be another “quick hit” because I’m struggling with Premiere Pro’s shakiness on the Mac platform – and yeah, I know, I should be using Final Cut Pro, but I’m trying to once again use myself as a guinea pig to...

Many Eyes Word Tree: What Went Wrong in Iraq

by David | Jul 9, 2008 | Design, Digital Migration, infographic, journalism, new media, Newspapers

A brief respite from the yammering about curmudgeons, interns, naivete vs. nihilism and all the rest of the debate over whether or not newspapers will be considered a curiosity in less than 2 years’ time… I got to this thru a post on the Poynter site, and...

NBC Throws Audience Measurement Methodologies at Olympics to See What Sticks

by The Wordyeti | Jul 7, 2008 | journalism, television

Meanwhile, Google whistles nervously, hoping nobody thinks to raise the issue of AdSense clickfraud again… There’s a yawning gulf in New Media. It stretches from the pittance that most media creators get for their ad space to the other side, where the...
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