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,...
by David | Aug 7, 2011 | New Marketing, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers, television
The good folks at CNN asked me to appear on Backstory” to talk about the News of the World’s phone-hacking scandal. I tried to oblige them with some insights onto why this kind of scandal keeps happening, and why. You can see the results of the interview...
by David | Sep 14, 2010 | newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch
The Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers used to represent the sinewy, beating heart of American journalism. Then they got run into the ground, bought up by Tribune dorks who were more interested in playing out their boyhood “I wanna play right field for the...
by David | Mar 27, 2010 | Digital Migration, journalism, Newspaper Deathwatch
GM’s NUMMI plant in Fremont was the solution to their crisis.     So why did they ignore its lessons? I strongly urge you to listen to this great piece from This American Life about the NUMMI auto plant in Fremont. It’s about how the U.S. auto...
by David | Nov 29, 2009 | Digital Migration
Online KP.org password sign-up confuses me with other people with the same name, asks for data on people I haven’t seen for years. Against the advice of almost everyone I know, I recently switched from Anthem to Kaiser Permanente for our corporate health...
