by David | Mar 26, 2009 | Digital Migration, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers, Video
Advertising, Riots, Twitter, Facebook and the Depression Curmudgeons skip directly to 7:50 or so, for the juicy bits. If you are in a crowded place, please allow at least 10 feet of safety space in all directions for when your head explodes. This is the first part of...
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...
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 | Jan 30, 2009 | Blogs, Digital Migration, New Marketing, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Politics & New Media
I posted this as a comment here, already, but it bears repeating. While the concept of a bailout for newspapers (and allegedly for good journalism) seems attractive at first blush, I fear that in practice, the billions in bailout funds would suffer the same fate as...
by David | Jan 19, 2009 | adsense clickfraud, Digital Migration, Newspaper Deathwatch
Three quick hits: 1. Here’s an interesting article about the one bit of bright news the newspaper industry had in the past year or so – the APT partnership with Yahoo that allowed newspapers to use Yahoo’s user-targeting technology to serve up ads....
