by David | Nov 19, 2008 | Blogging, Digital Migration, new media, Politics & New Media
Nobody directly involved will admit it, but this is looking more and more like one of the more nasty, yet brilliant, scams of the last couple years. It may have been pulled off by the legendary Nigerian internet scammers, but it’s beginning to look like it...
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 | Nov 7, 2008 | new media
Quick hit: from the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco (h/t Techcrunch):Huffington says flat out that if it wasn’t for the Internet, Obama would not be president. Trippi notes that Obama’s YouTube spots gathered an aggregate of 14.5 million viewing hours. The...
by David | Nov 2, 2008 | new media, Online Video, Politics & New Media
Now that we’re finally approaching the end of a presidential campaign season that started way back in May 2007 … and as an aside, allow me to observe that it used to be that declaring for the presidency the December before the Iowa caucuses/New Hampshire...
by David | Oct 29, 2008 | advertising, Digital Migration, New Marketing, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
Not a good week in journalism. And this cover story was, unfortunately, quite prophetic for a lot of Time, Inc. staffers. Of interest, amidst the “can you braid this into a noose for me please?”-type news, is the announcement by CEO Ann Moore that...
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...
