Today, I’m at The Internet East and West: How Digital Technology is Transforming China and the nitd States at the Univrsity of California at Berkeley. The first panel today, Revisiting Virtual Communities: the Internet’s Impact on Society and Politics, is underway. Susan…
Public Relations strategist Steve Rubel, who currently serves as Vice President of Client Services at CooperKatz & Company in New York City, has launched Micro Persuasion, a weblog that tracks how weblogs and participatory journalism are changing the public relations.
Disrupting the News Industry: Media Concentration and Participatory Journalism, is a panel next Friday morning at the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Admission is free. Panelists are: Neil Chase, managing editor of CBS MarketWatch. Dan Gillmor, columnist for…
In the printed and online editions, at the end of his opinion column about the North Korean nuclear weapons, The New York Times Nicholas D. Kristof adds: After my reports from Africa about ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region of Sudan, many…
Nielsen//Netratings reports that during March eight of the top 20 news Web sites or ‘groups’ in the U.S. were affiliated with newspapers. Yet isn’t this like reporting that eight of the top 20 dining spots were affiliated with restaurants? Why this news?…
My American compatriots still won’t believe me when I say that the best online publications are European. I’ve been telling them that for years, but their their national pride makes them think that whatever was invented in America is still made there.…
In the foreground, Tom Regan of the Christian Science Monitor, the turned head of an attendee we don’t know, , and Gordon Joseloff of WestportNow.com and formerly of CBS News and UPI. That’s me near the clock, commenting to the What is…
Bloggers attending the BoggerCon II conference Saturday at Harvard University’s Law School voted that forming a trade association of bloggers and also giving advertisers better usage statistics about blogs are the two best paths toward generating revenues from blogging. During a session…
On Saturday, I’ll be attending BloggerCon at Harvard University Law School. Nearly 400 other people have registered to attend. I look forward to this conference’s sessions on What is Journalism?, Blogging in Business, Shirky’s Power Law, and Blogging as a Business. For…
I’m today watching the live webcast from the University of Texas‘ 5th International Symposium on Online Journalism. The first panel, Online Journalism in Asia, Europe and Latin America What is different and how does it compare with the U.S.?, featured speakers from…
I’m glad to see that New York Times Digital‘s operating profit during the previous three months was (US) $8.4 million — an annualized yield of $34.6 million in profit. Why am I only now happy when NYTD has been reporting ‘profitability’ for…
A publishing sector that could greatly benefit by switching from print to online is corporate communications. I had an interesting discussion today with the corporate communications editor of Akzo Nobel in the Netherlands. This 64,500-person pharmaceutical & chemicals company will soon switch…
I’ve agreed to talk on Monday to the University of Missouri’s Online Journalism class. I spoke to them in person last October, but this time I’ll be video narrowcasting the talk from my office in Connecticut. A complication is that ‘Mizzou’ uses…
My thanks for three European articles this week that mentioned of my work: Eva Domínguez, writing in Barcelona’s La Vanguardia on the subject of an Observatorio de Prospective Technológica Industrial (OPTI) report about how new technology is going to affect Spanish media…
Transom.org, a showcase and workshop for channeling public radio through the Internet, has won a Peabody Award — the first Web site ever to win a major American journalism award. The annual George Foster Peabody Awards were first awarded in 1941 for…
Posted on Romensko’s media Memos page today was a copy of this: 4/7/2004 8:31:51 AM Memo from San Francisco Chronicle publisher Steve Falk TO: Management Staff/Digital Media Staff FROM: Steve Falk Under Robert Cauthorn’s guidance for the last three and one-half years,the…
John B. Evans, a man who influenced my entry into electronic publishing, died nine days ago at his home in New Jersey. His obituary appeared today in The New York Times. A Welshman, Evans received a law degree from Cambridge University, then…
I’m looking for a few publications for which I can write about subjects such as electronic publishing, e-mail, e-commerce, paid content, digital editions, and other phenomena of the Internet. I very much enjoyed my recent writing assignments for Online Journalism Review (on…
All traditional media companies now publish online and many of them are casting warry eyes at Google News, which is rising in the online ratings. Meanwhile, Google’s introduction of its GMail service this month has shaken up the e-mail application world and…
Google, the de facto search engine of the Internet, indexes the most popular Web sites for a keyword, not the most authoritative. Meanwhile, I believe that Clay Shirky has accurately applied the Power Curve to the phenomenon known as blogging. And blogging…
Jupiter Research analyst Niki Scevak, who covers advertising and media forecasting, seems perplex at how expenditures on newspaper advertising can grow while newspaper readership declines: A post by fellow Jup blogger David Card got me thinking more about advertising’s supposed axiom: the…
Many people (recently, Editor & Publisher Magazine columnist Steve Outing) have written about how news Web sites need better graphical layouts. Most of those layouts date back to the early days of the Web, when designers were attempting to replicate printed page…