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 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 | Feb 9, 2009 | journalism, new media, Online Video, Politics & New Media
Hire this director and have him start whipping Christian Bale into shape. This video had my class rolling with laughter – it’s slightly NSFW (mainly with the cussing in the subtitles, although if your office has Russian speakers, they might object). This...
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...
by David | Jan 28, 2009 | Blogging, Blogs, new media, Online Video
I can’t decide if this is one of those “sign of the deteriorating times” type stories, wherein I get to pontificate about how the free-for-all, no insult too depraved, “culture” of the internet has led to yet another sad incident …...
