by David | Jul 7, 2008 | adsense clickfraud, advertising, Digital Migration, google, journalism, new media, Newspapers, Online Video, 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...
by David | Jul 7, 2008 | Digital Migration, journalism, Lemmings, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
Buried at the end of this Reuters piece about how there aren’t many analysts bothering to report on the newspaper industry, comes this jewel of a quote: As for the sell-side, the analysts who remain — such as Goldman Sachs analyst Peter Appert —...
by The Wordyeti | Jun 25, 2008 | journalism, newspaper crisis
A wildly successful industry is faced with a bold challenge from scrappy digital interlopers and reacts in all the predictable ways… Stage 1: The industry reacts with disdain – "The new digital stuff is just a fad. Look – our sales are going...
by The Wordyeti | Jun 12, 2008 | journalism, newspaper crisis
…some might say the train has already left the station on that one… Not sure what it is that’s behind this announcement. Perhaps someone at Google belatedly came to the realization that without newspapers, there’s no real fresh content on the...
by David | May 26, 2008 | Blogging, Blogs, Design, Digital Migration, journalism, Newspapers, Online Video
I’ve been blogging for more than three years now on the Typepad platform, and have finally taken the leap to WordPress. It’s not because Typepad was bad – although it was a little clunky at first, and I haven’t ever really been happy with...
by The Wordyeti | May 17, 2008 | journalism, music, newspaper crisis, television
Can you say “Doomed”? Apparently, a report called “And Now for the News,” written by Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research, came out this week, and it’s got both Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and, not coincidentally, HDNet, and...
