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“Filter Bubbles” and the Raison d’Etre for This Here Blog

by David | Dec 15, 2011 | Conspiracy Theories, Digital Migration

Eli Pariser’s TED talk on the dangers of allowing someone else to choose what you see/hear/feel If I were a weaker man, I’d just fold up my tent and move on. However, upon closer inspection, I find myself saying “Yahbut …” a lot...

Wrongheaded Solutions: eBooks (… on a little plastic card to be inserted in the e-reader)

by David | Nov 20, 2011 | Digital Migration

Norwegian company Norli Libris  introduces nonsensical “eBook” publishing model Quick Hit: Saw this on BoingBoing, followed it over to Applied Abstractions, and just couldn’t resist commenting on it, for 1) the benefit of my international students,...

Moran Cerf, Madonna, and the Mass Media Reality-Distortion Field

by David | Sep 13, 2011 | Amusing Nonsense

Moran Cerf describes his “Liberty Valance” moment on KCRW’s UnFictional I’ve already posted this to my Facebook profile, but the story put a hook into me, and deserves a more thorough reaction, comment & perhaps clarification. This story...

Where is the media heading?

by David | Oct 17, 2010 | advertising, Digital Migration, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch, Online Video

First in a series of videos taken during a panel discussion for PR Newswire at the LA Times building.    On the panel with me, the delightfully funny and plainspoken Serena Ehrlich, who knows more about how to handle media in the digital age than the last...

Newspapers’ Dying Swan Song: SF Chronicle Tries Glossy Paper, Splashy Color

by David | Nov 12, 2009 | Digital Migration, infographic, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers

Print die-hards claimed that all that was needed to reverse the audience migration to the internet was to make newspapers more “lively” in appearance. Early verdict: looks pretty, but the advertising still isn’t there, and that sound you heard was...
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