by David | Jul 24, 2009 | Digital Migration, new media, Newspapers
At the risk of having some tort-toting barrister slithering under my office door, here’s a link to a NY Times story about the latest salvo in the growing war between Traditional Media and online news aggregators/commenters. The Associated Press said Thursday...
by David | Jun 22, 2009 | Newspaper Deathwatch
This came to me via the Media Giraffe project at UMass (and a very special h/t to Janine Warner, currently filming a video for Microsoft up in Seattle), and I was inspired to write a long comment in response to it. Basically, Circulate is the creation of a team at the...
by David | May 19, 2009 | Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
Man, I didn’t think there was anyone left at the Chronicle to fire – and here I read that they just canned 151 more people? Delfin Vigil, a reporter at the Chron, took out an ad in the Examiner to decry the sorry state of the paper after all the cutbacks,...
by David | May 15, 2009 | Digital Migration, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
Over at The Digitalists, the question of “What would micropayments mean for journalists?” was raised. Well, there are two schools of thought to this. The first is the one that was espoused there: What exactly do these people think that newspaper execs...
by David | May 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
Everywhere I go that’s fun, interesting & tech-oriented, I run into Wm. Marc Salisbury, toting his Canon DSLRs and an enthusiastic grin. He’s assigned himself the task of covering all the meetups of the smarty-pants computer geek/film nerd/tortured...
