by David | Jan 29, 2009 | Digital Migration, E-ink devices, Newspapers
I still think that obsessing on the platform that the news comes across on is symptomatic of a severe case of Missing The Point. Let me say it again: viewing the newspaper crisis as being caused just because people don’t like buying paper anymore is akin...
by David | Nov 13, 2008 | Digital Migration, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
Let’s set the stage. First, Ron Rosenbaum unloads on Jeff Jarvis for being “increasingly heartless” about newsroom cutbacks, layoffs & the general death spiral. A sampling: Not all reporters had the prescience to become new-media consultants. A...
by David | Oct 31, 2008 | Digital Migration, E-ink devices, New Marketing, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
This is getting really, really close to the vision of the future that all the e-Ink dweebs have been yammering about for, oh, the last 40 years or so. The idea of an object that marries the (perceived) strengths of a newspaper with the electronic display have become...
