Becoming a good media practitioner (whether in journalism, public relations or advertising) you need to have a good understanding of pop-culture and your audience. A few years ago my father introduced me to the USA Network program Monk. I think it’s a funny show and watch all the new episodes [...]

Thursday night I finally finished reading Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. I say finally because it took me about a month to read it. Please don’t let that be an appraisal of my opinion of the book. [...]

The Washington Post has sent a memo around focusing on their Ten Web Principles. The basic thrust of their principles is that the newsroom exists as much for their web product as the print newspaper. Apparently, there has been some friction in the newsroom over changes made for their website. [...]

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Bon Jovi is creating a new business model for the music industry linking items that are scarce with items that are easily available (but you want someone to pay for). For any user that downloads their new record on iTunes they are giving them the first opportunity to purchase concert [...]

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The publisher of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette recently wrote an opinion piece promoting the lack of dramatic circulation losses at the Democrat-Gazette as a result of requiring a paid subscription to view the news stories online. This opinion piece also appeared in the Wall Street Journal. The obvious problem with [...]

In Commonwealth magazine there was an interesting article about how the very best ownership model for newspaper could be owned by a non-profit foundation. In the article Dan Kennedy writes… “Ownership, though, remains a hot topic—not just in Boston, but nationally. The Times Company, like Gannett and McClatchy, is a [...]

I don’t think newspaper’s are dying, but many of the web’s top prognosticators are speculating that we are seeing the beginning of the end…. Robert Scoble Tim O’Reilly Dave Winer Doc Searls Ryan Sholin I do agree with them that if the newspaper industry as a whole doesn’t wake-up and [...]

“I guess when Viacom and CBS split up, CBS got the IQ.” – Jeff Jarvis commenting on Viacom’s vs. CBS’s response to Youtube. Basically, CBS is asking YouTube to take down all unauthorized video and replacing it with an official copy of whatever video that was taken down to help [...]