by David | Mar 20, 2009 | Digital Migration, journalism, New Marketing, new media, Newspapers
InDenver Launches – Rocky Mountain News Staffers DIY News Project If the future of news is that it will live as a web-only play, then the InDenver and Seattle PI sites, which are (to use the horticultural metaphor) scions of the original papers are perhaps...
by David | Feb 9, 2009 | journalism, new media, Online Video, Politics & New Media
Hire this director and have him start whipping Christian Bale into shape. This video had my class rolling with laughter – it’s slightly NSFW (mainly with the cussing in the subtitles, although if your office has Russian speakers, they might object). This...
by David | Feb 4, 2009 | advertising, Digital Migration, google, journalism, New Marketing, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
This is going to have to be quick – I haven’t had any spare time to blog, since I’ve been finishing up on editing the Great Big Scary Project, and I have to churn out my intros to said project, along with sprucing up my multimedia examples for my...
by David | Nov 21, 2008 | Digital Migration, journalism, new media, Politics & New Media
This came in through the comment threads, and is thoughtful enough that it merits more attention: It sounds like both media channels worked as I would expect them too. The mainstream media sticks with the low risk stories that are easy to substantiate and defend while...
by David | Oct 24, 2008 | Blogging, Blogs, journalism, New Marketing, new media, Online Video
One of the key moments in “Colors” came when “Pacman,” the young hothead cop (Sean Penn) was incorrectly identified as the guy that mistakenly shot an innocent black kid during a raid gone wrong. The word came down that the gangs, in...
by David | Oct 6, 2008 | advertising, Blogs, Design, Digital Migration, journalism, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers, Online Video
I hate like hell to keep doing quick, off-the-cuff bites at such big topics, but maybe I should just resign myself to accepting the web ethos of not trying to do all things at once. Yeah, yeah, I know – “Eat the elephant one bite at a time.”So...
