by David | Nov 12, 2009 | Digital Migration, infographic, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
Print die-hards claimed that all that was needed to reverse the audience migration to the internet was to make newspapers more “lively” in appearance. Early verdict: looks pretty, but the advertising still isn’t there, and that sound you heard was...
by David | Aug 16, 2009 | Digital Migration, New Marketing, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
In which I get very “Meta” and write a blog post that aggregates other blog posts that were written about aggregation. I am also posting this over on the AIM Group blog, as part of what I think might become a regular feature, “This week in the paid...
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 | 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...
