by David | Jan 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
The New Normal: DenialSince the first utterance of the phrase “green shoots,” there have been attempts to gaze into the crystal ball, to predict what things are going to be like once we get out of the recession/depression-lite. The most recent is a long...
by David | Dec 30, 2008 | Digital Migration, Newspaper Deathwatch
Michael Arrington apparently wants my morning coffee to wind up on the keyboard. Display advertising revenue is going to fall of a cliff in Januaryaccording to a number of content sites I’ve spoken with who rely onadvertising for revenue. “Sales through December...
by David | Dec 27, 2008 | Digital Migration, Newspaper Deathwatch
Been a while between posts here – I’ve had writing deadlines, presentation deadlines and a dauntingly ambitious editing task to try to manage. Anyway, despite this being the Christmas season, oft-assailed gadfly & jilted lover of newspapers...
by David | Nov 18, 2008 | Amusing Nonsense
I received the tweet earlier today, and it rocked my world like a bombshell. It was from Scott Beale, owner/operator/provocateur of the Laughing Squid collective of digital mischiefmakers. It read “what could you possibility be doing right now that is...
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 —...