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Desperate Obama-Haters Give Money to Nigerian Scam

by David | Nov 19, 2008 | Blogging, Digital Migration, new media, Politics & New Media

Nobody directly involved will admit it, but this is looking more and more like one of the more nasty, yet brilliant, scams of the last couple years.  It may have been pulled off by the legendary Nigerian internet scammers, but it’s beginning to look like it...

Sarah Palin and “Colors”: A Lesson in Image Control

by David | Oct 24, 2008 | Blogging, Blogs, journalism, New Marketing, new media, Online Video

One of the key moments in “Colors” came when “Pacman,” the young hothead cop (Sean Penn) was incorrectly identified as the guy that mistakenly shot an innocent black kid during a raid gone wrong.  The word came down that the gangs, in...

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...

Welcome to the Artesian Media blog

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...
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Because surfing the Internet is like drinking from a firehose, David LaFontaine braves the torrent to tell you what trends and technologies to gulp down, swirl in your mouth, or spit out.

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