I’ve recently been testing a Sony Ericsson P900, the state-of-the-art in mobile devices: It’s a tri-band mobile phone, PDA, MP3 audio and MPEG4 video player, and digital still & video camera, with 65,536 color VGA screen, a Web browser, e-mail access, SMS,…
Los Angeles Times media critic David Shaw reviews digital editions and likes what he sees. He prefers them over reading newspapers’ Web sites. I miss the serendipity of coming unexpectedly upon an interesting story I would never have thought to look for.…
During the past 10 days, we’ve been taking time away from consulting and also from posting here. Instead, we’ve been working on two new projects: A report about paid online content (which we plan to publish next month); And a report about…
Hong Kong already is the world’s most telecommunicative major city, having more wired and more wireless access than any other. San Jose Mercury News Columnists Dan Gillmor (who’s doing his annual sabbatical teaching gig in Hong Kong) says that the future of…
Online Journalism Review includes my perspectives in its Look Back at 2003, and What’s on the Horizon for the Online News Universe. It’s an excellent article by Mark Glaser and requires no corrections. Glaser wisely omitted a sentence (in italics below) in…
We like to closely examine the financial results of New York Times Digital as a bellwether of American online publishing. Most American newspapers’ Web sites should now be earning a profit, seven to ten years after they began publishing online; however, very…
Although last month I harshly questioned the Albuquerque Journal‘s, decision to charge for access to its Web site, I think that the individual steps that Donn Friedman, the newspaper’s Assistant Managing Editor for Production Technology and New Media Innovations, had formulated deserve…
Tech for tech’s sake does not a market make. The world can have as many waves of new technologies as serendipty, venture capital, or the right combination of both can muster. But the technologies that are accepted by, and make a difference…
Today is my tenth anniversary (3,650 days) of working full-time in online publishing. “
On the Newspaper Association of America’s Digital Edge Web site, Attorney William Baker offers some basic advice to e-mail publishers about U.S. anti-spam laws. In our experience, the Editorial departments at newspaper, magazines, and broadcasters generally obey anti-spam laws.However, we’ve seen (and…
Yesterday, we wrote about the Daily Mail of London commencing online publishing a decade after the opening of the Internet to the public. Netimperative today has an thoughtful analysis of the Daily Mail’s wait. Netimperative thinks the Daily Mail’s long wait was…
The Mobile Marketing Association has released its ‘Code of Conduct for Wireless Campaigns‘. We think that online publishers should fit within this code, if not do even better. The MMA Code’s pertinent points: Choice Consumers must “opt-in” to all mobile messaging programs.…
Japan Media Review interviews Hirotsugo Koike, the editor-in-chief of Nikkei Net Interactive, the electronic publishing division of Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the world’s largest (3 million print circulation) daily financial newspaper. “I personally am very concerned about the tendency among young people in…
A decade after the Internet was opened to the public, the Daily Mail of London will begin publishing online. The Media Guardian quotes Murdoch MacLennan, Group Managing Director of Associated Newspapers Ltd, which owns the 2.4 million daily print circulation newspaper, as…
Not on an anti-telemarketing ‘Do Not Call’ list and still bothered by carefully scripted telemarketers? Martijn Engelbregt offers an equivalently careful anti-telemarketer counterscript (PDF format).
We notice that Ireland.com, the Web site of The Irish Times of Dublin, has begun putting more stories in front of its paid content gate. Is this a bit more of a retreat from its paid access content model? A way to…
The Financial Times will offer free and paid content to Vodaphone network mobile phone users in the UK. The format will be WAP. However, users will have free access to FT.com
Wayport, a company that provides Wi-Fi wireless and wired Internet access in hotels, airports and McDonald’s restaurants, will offer free downloads of The New York Times‘ digital editions. Wayport provides Wi-Fi (802.11b) wireless and broadband wired Internet access in 680 U.S. hotels…
After gorging on turkey during the long Thanksgiving Holiday in America, we’re now in the mood to eat anything but foul. However, what we found at the American Hotel off Amsterdam’s Leidseplein was an entirely new culinary treat. Yes, live pasta! Although…