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Curmudgeon: It’s What’s For Dinner
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,...
What Automakers (and Newspapers?) Can Learn from the iPhone
This is going to have to be another "quick hit" because I'm struggling with Premiere Pro's shakiness on the Mac platform - and yeah, I know, I should be using Final Cut Pro, but I'm trying to once again use myself as a guinea pig to see what problems crop up when you...
What Automakers (and Newspapers?) Can Learn from the iPhone
This is going to have to be another "quick hit" because I'm struggling with Premiere Pro's shakiness on the Mac platform - and yeah, I know, I should be using Final Cut Pro, but I'm trying to once again use myself as a guinea pig to see what problems crop up when you...
Incentivizing Participation: Online Communities and Newspaper Survival
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...
Incentivizing Participation: Online Communities and Newspaper Survival
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...
Second Life: Living in “Starry Night”
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 Life was a fan of...