by David | Feb 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’ve posted on the Facebook tribute page for Martin, Twittered about his passing, and appealed to others to not let Martin’s sudden death go unnoticed. This really blindsided me, because only Monday I was having a typically great conversation about Martin...
by David | Nov 5, 2009 | Blogging, Conspiracy Theories, Online Video, Politics & New Media
Under the guise of “protecting citizens from terrorists and porn,†the government in Kazakhstan is eliminating freedom of speech and of the press via a particularly toxic cocktail of Old Stalinist School beatings, jailings and intimidation – and cutting-edge...
by David | Sep 24, 2009 | Digital Migration, New Marketing, new media, Online Video
It was a cinematic night, as event organizer Brad Nye looked like he was making an entrance in a James Bond film, and Jason Calacanis did a Q&A (thanks for taking my question first, BTW), and looked a little like Citizen Kane. It’s late and I’ve got a...
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 24, 2009 | Digital Migration, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
The last couple of months have seen the weaker papers in two-newspaper towns file for bankruptcy, fire their staffs & announce impending doom. A lot of this can be written off as the natural consequences of a contracting ad market and an epically bad...
