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,...
by David | Jul 12, 2008 | Design, new media, Online Video
The exact numbers are somewhat fluid, but most analysts agree that only 1-5 people out of every thousand that visit a UGC site will actually contribute something. That works out to between 0.1 and 0.5%That is a very small group to base the success of your community...
by David | Jul 12, 2008 | Design, new media, Online Video
Ran across this on Andrew Sullivan’s blog, where he had it intriguingly titled as “Mental Health Break.”I found this very affecting; the creativity and dedication displayed here are humbling. A preview: Robbie Dingo, an alias for a resident of Second...
by David | Jul 9, 2008 | Design, Digital Migration, infographic, journalism, new media, Newspapers
A brief respite from the yammering about curmudgeons, interns, naivete vs. nihilism and all the rest of the debate over whether or not newspapers will be considered a curiosity in less than 2 years’ time… I got to this thru a post on the Poynter site, and...
by David | Jul 7, 2008 | adsense clickfraud, advertising, Digital Migration, google, journalism, new media, Newspapers, Online Video, television
Meanwhile, Google whistles nervously, hoping nobody thinks to raise the issue of AdSense clickfraud again… There’s a yawning gulf in New Media. It stretches from the pittance that most media creators get for their ad space to the other side, where the...
