The unsigned editorial, Ending the Pollyana Party Line on Circulation: Time to Drop the Excuses, in the November 10th edition of Editor & Publisher magazine bears much more attention and discussion than it received in the newspaper industry — even among people…
Our thanks to Ola Ahlvarsson, Rosenthal Alves, Bruce Annan, Colby Atwood, Azeem Azhar, Clyde Bentley, Matt Benner, Gordon Borrell, John Breen, Peter Brennan, Dan Bruns, Neil Budde, Mike Cassidy, David Card, Bob Cauthorn, Todd Chronis, Craig Cline, Séamus Conaty, Peter Conti, Ron…
For several years, we’ve been advocating that ‘convergence’ isn’t media companies combining their print and broadcast newsrooms — that’s multimedia, not convergence. True convergence is the convergence of print and of online into a single product. Not multiple products (newsprint, Web, broadcast,…
Ben Hammersley points us to the UK’s Wildfowl & Wetland Trust‘s site tracking the migration of individual Beswick and Whooper Swans and East African Flamingos. The birds have been tagged with lightweight (35 to 45 gram) transmitters whose signals are tracked by…
EditorAndPublisher.com today has a nice feature interview with George Dratelis, the Ottaway Newspapers (a Dow Jones & Co. subsidiary) corporate Internet marketing director. Two highlights: “I find it amazing that some newspapers are foregoing the growth opportunities all together and moving into…
If you’re a business or a person planning to launch a Web log for a product, service, public relations, lead generation, advocacy, product, service, public relations, or any other business purpose, MarketingWonk has published a solid, practical guide for you. Business Blogs:…
Dave Morgan, founder of more than one major online advertising technology company, offers online publishers some sage advice today in the first of a two-part column at ClickZ.com. I’ll give away only four of the nine cogent points that his first part…
Confounding the predictions of Internet analysts and stock analysts, Salon.com continues to survive and has just celebrated its eighth birthday.
Slate.com has hired former stock analyst Henry Blodget to cover the securities fraud trial of household lifestyle doyen Martha Stewart. That’s like Fox News hiring former national security adviser Col. Oliver North to cover the the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Slate.com Editor…
We’ve been dwelling on Jeff Jarvis‘ remarks about how there was the no interactivity demonstrated in the presentations during the Online News Association‘s panel entitled Engaging Readers with Interactivity. During our trip this week between Chicago and Detroit, we were discussing how…
Our thanks to the New Media Program at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University for allowing our managing partner to speak on the Digital Images: The Next Frontier panel during its Storytelling and New Technologies: A Conversation About the Future…
Our thanks to the Online News Association for letting our managing partner moderate the How Technology Will Change News panel at its annual conference in Chicago this weekend. And our particular thanks to the panelist: Martha L. Stone, training director at the…
Is interactivity the equivalent of holding a conversation with your readers or is interactivity you letting your readers play multimedia games to learn? We think the answer is what Jeff Jarvis, president & creative director of Advance.net said in reaction yesterday to…
Tribune Company President Jack Fuller‘s keynote yesterday at the Online News Association annual conference contained two remarks of note: First, he remarked that his company has spent US$600 million (net of revenues!) developing online services for Tribune’s newspapers and broadcast stations. Although…
Flights cancelled out of New York City due to near hurricane strength winds, we yesterday took the 13-hour drive to Chicago, where we ‘re now at the Online News Association‘s annual conference. Attendence is around 250, WiFi has been provided, and dozen…
We thank Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome, who today is attempting to clear up Digital Deliverance’s “deep misunderstandings of the RSS feed and its accomplaying blog technology.” He has been leading a charge that publishers should abandon e-mail publishing in exchange for RSS…
Last month, we noted that Penthouse Magazine Publisher Bob Guccione, Sr. had lamented, “The future has definitely migrated to electronic media” and that he admitted that there may no longer be a future for magazines such as Penthouse” and that his bankruptcy…
A fellow member of the Online News Association mentions that the phrases online news and online publishing won’t make much sense in an increasingly wireless world. Speaking of which, Anil de Melo charts how mobile phones are evolving into ‘advanced human communication…
A topic we’ll be exploring later this week at the Online News Association’s annual conference is how to get consumers to read electronic publications more often, more fully, and for more time. We’ve frequently been using the audience overview section of The…
The second part of our article examining the feasibility of paid subscription blogging was published today by JupiterMedia’s ClickZ.com. It also features the opinions of Hylton Jolliffe of Corante, Steve Outing of the Poynter Institute’s E-Media Tidbits, Henry Copeland of Pressflex and…
Later this week, we’ll be attending two online journalism conferences: The Online News Association‘s annual conference and a Storytelling and New Technology conference at the Medill School of Journalism, both events held in the Chicago suburb of Evanston. The ONA is an…
Many print circulation executives still claim that their periodicals shouldn’t be published online for free because that will cannibalize their circulation. However, many years of surveys have showed that didn’t happen. Nevertheless, the fallacy of their claim betrays an even darker truth:…
There are search engines for Web page, search engines for quotes, but no search engines for jokes.
Should a newspaper be allowed to include its Web site’s paying subscribers among its count of print circulation? In a remarkably wimpy decision earlier this week, the U.S. Audit Bureau of Circulation has allowed The Wall Street Journal to do exactly that.…
Barnes & Noble today announced plans to pay US$115 million for the 25 percent of BarnesAndNoble.com that it doesn’t already own and to turn that publicly held online operation into a private subsidiary. That news might be perceived due to failures in…
With but a precious few profitable exceptions, most online periodicals today exists either simply to keep their New Medium directors and Web producers employed or else as loss-leading defenses against further erosion of their printed periodicals’ classified advertising revenues. To that it…
Online Journalism Review‘s lead story today is a first-person account by Albuquerque Journal Assistant Managing Editor (for production technology and new media innovations) Donn Friedman about why his newspaper’s Web site switched from free to paid access. After reading it, we posted…
The Walt Disney Internet Group has contracted with Summus, Inc., a North Carolina developer of wireless multimedia applications, to provide Disney’s ABC News and ESPN subsidiaries’ content to users of some the non-GSM wireless networks in the US. Summus’ press release says…
FastCompany.com features a transcript of the mobile marketing panel yesterday at the Ad:Tech conference in NYC. Did you know that approximately 30 million Americans are using text messaging? That 150 million US mobile phones can receive text messages? Or that 80% of…
At the beginning of this month, the European Union’s ‘ban on spam’ directive (PDF format) took effect: ‘Cookies’ and other invisible tracking devices that can collect information on Internet users may be utilised only if the user is given clear information about…
We thank the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania for quoting us in Selling Content on the Internet: It
A mountaineer who takes cover during a storm or avalanche doesn’t feel a great sense of accomplishment when he returns to where he last was in his ascent. Although it’s great to survive, it’s not really progress. That was my feeling too…
If you think the new hires on your Web staff are getting younger each year (which actually means you’re getting older), fear not. As they get apparently younger, too young to be drinking Coca-Cola® or Red Bull® energy drinks, the beverage industry…