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Yahoo’s Blueprint, PointRoll Dances on the iPhone, and Millennial Media Targets Everyone

by David | Sep 11, 2008 | advertising, Design, Digital Migration, google, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers, Online Video

Packing up for the trip back down to LA, but couldn’t let these little tidbits from the CTIA pass without at least acknowledging them. 1.  Yahoo is trying to drum up some support for its Blueprint mobile platform.  They claim that it’s going to allow...

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...

Curmudgeon: It’s What’s For Dinner

by David | Jul 18, 2008 | Digital Migration, journalism, Lemmings, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers

More articles about the noxious effect of curmudgeons on the newspaper industry. This meme has really taken off in the last couple of weeks; I sense a great deal of pent-up frustration on both sides of this ideological debate. If this were an ABC Afterschool Special,...

What Automakers (and Newspapers?) Can Learn from the iPhone

by David | Jul 16, 2008 | Digital Migration, journalism, Lemmings, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers

This is going to have to be another “quick hit” because I’m struggling with Premiere Pro’s shakiness on the Mac platform – and yeah, I know, I should be using Final Cut Pro, but I’m trying to once again use myself as a guinea pig to...

OK, this is just uncalled-for

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 —...
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