Can an organization be a clothing company without making its own threads? Much brouhaha has been written lately about whether or not Google is a media company. It’s the type of ontological question that tends to fascinate theologians during the medieval era…
Are you one of the publishers who thought that millions of people would use :CueCat scanners while reading printed newspapers? If so, A-Z Computer Liquidators of Anaheim, California, has a deal for you. Millions of :CueCat scanners for just US $0.30 apiece…
Here is a question for all you reporters and editors: How would Woodward and Bernstein (and The Washington Post) have reported the Watergate story if they had had today’s online technologies? What would they have done better? Worse? How might investigatin and…
During the Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek magazines’ Interactive Media conference in New Orleans, Jacob Weissberg of
Cocktails during Cinco de Mayo at the offices of Critical Mention above New York City’s 57th Street canyon I haven’t been posting much because I’ve been traveling most of the past few months half that time to develop the video news…
Connecticut is the third smallest of the United States. One hundred miles wide, 50 miles high, and home to 3.3 million people, its largest cities are Bridgeport (population 138,000) and Hartford (pop. 133,000). A Connecticut city of 22,931 people was lost last…
Netimperative yesterday reported that there are now more broadband Internet users than dial-up Internet users in the United Kingdom. It reported that new figures released by BT Group show that, there are now more than 7.4 million broadband customers (including those of…
[A subscriber to the Poynter Institute‘s Online News discussion list this week asked for any research or experience about whether putting a story on a newspaper’s Web site the day before print publication has an affect on newsstand sales on the day…