Month: May 2004

I am back at work after 20 days spent mostly on family business. Sorry about the interregnum.

The webcast of my panel, Disrupting the News Industry: Media Concentration and Participatory Journalism, a week ago at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s and Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism’s Internet East & West: China and U.S. conference has been…

Am I the only veteran of online publishing to urge newspaper publishers to resist the seductive but devastating temptation to convert their sites from free to paid access? Not by a longshot. The latest to weigh in is Dave Morgan, founder of…

There’s a good story in Columbia Journalism Review about how the publisher of the Dallas Morning News wants to see a ‘revolution’ in his newsroom. He’s calling for tough investigative reporting, openness in the newroom, an end to complacency there. Will he…

Jack Shafer of Slate.com has a solid analysis of the digital editions produced by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and other American newspapers. His conclusion is that “these electronic editions [are] as comfortable as a fat man trapped…

According to a story in Editor & Publisher magazine, many newspapers that have suffered circulation declines are partly blaming it on recent bans on unsolicited telemarketing to consumers. That made my laugh. Although it is true that the fatalities on the H.M.S.…

CAN is an auxiliary verb in the English language. It is used to indicate ability. And that was the unintentional irony when the U.S. Congress passed into law the CAN SPAM Act six months ago. Although the legislators thought that the acronym…

Due to internal changes here at Digital Deliverance, transcontinental travel, some speaking engagements, influenza, and some unexpected new clients, I haven’t posted much here during the past week. After all, freely posting news & commentary here is of lesser importance than health,…