Archive for the ‘Newspapers’ Category

The craftsman as citizen journalist

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008In the Craftsman by Richard Sennett, he points us to the philosopher Pico della Mirandola, who envisaged Homo Faber to mean "man as his own maker." Richard Lester and Michael Piore describe the process of (meaningful) as communication asFluid, context-dependent, ...

The glittering allure of the mobile society

Thursday, December 4th, 2008[caption id="attachment_2644" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image: Scott Beale @ laughingsquid.com"][/caption]In February of this year I found myself on a cold and rainy day in Evian, at the behest of Microsoft at an international summit for CIO’s to give the final keynote ...

Are the sluice gates open for newspaper ad revenues?

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Newspaper ad revenue fell almost $2 billion in the third quarter for a record 18.1% decline, according to new statistics from the Newspaper Association of America. What's worse, newspapers' online ad revenue fell for the second quarter in a row. ...

ProPublica versus the Grocers

Saturday, October 18th, 2008 ProPublica.org aims to make up some of the ground lost to journalism by the current crisis of advertising revenues bleeding to the internet. In particular, it seeks to preserve the skills and value of investigative reporting one of the first ...

Rehab is for quitters

Friday, May 30th, 2008Sang Amy Winehouse. Well she didn't exactly say that, but the thought crossed my mind, when I stopped by my favourite wine shop in Cambridge called Bacchanalia.Because the owner Paul Bowles was reading an article about his shop published in ...

Punctuated Equilibrium for the Johnston Press

Friday, May 16th, 2008Its sad when you see entire industries under threat - its sad when those industries also have only themselves to blame. Sometimes however they just cant see it coming - Blindsided As Stephen Jay Gould wroteStructural or mental ...

Evolution of SMLXL

Friday, March 28th, 2008 In 2002, I founded a company called SMLXL - short for Small Medium Large XtraLarge.Its focus was and still is - how do businesses and organisations meaningfully engage in a commercial or social agenda with their audiences.  We were some ...

Who counts the audience?

Saturday, March 8th, 2008Google is considering bringing its TV advertising service, now being tested in the US, to the British market. It would be its first entry into so-called offline advertising this side of the Atlantic.The Google TV Ads service takes ...

Tough Love from Jeff Jarvis

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008The other day, when I noted that the hedge fund breathing down the necks of the NY Times Company board and management had acquired as much stock as the Sulzberger family, I said that strategic change in the ...

Regional Press Owners Need to Get with the Beat: Intelligence

Monday, February 25th, 2008Posts Roy Greenslade referencing a Paul Bradshaw post Local news is changing - but not fast enoughAs the digital revolution moves forward are regional newspapers moving fast enough to appeal to online audiences? That's ...

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