John Temple, former editor the Rocky Mountain News, has some interesting comments on the latest Nieman Journalism Lab report on newspapers online market share and Rupert Murdoch’s latest comment in support of the newspapers implementing a pay wall.

I keep switching computers around at work and at home– just jumping from one computer to another to try something different out- and I have come up with a list of tools that I always install first thing when I take a new windows computer to use.  I’ve done this [...]

Chuck, the SEO rapper, released his Social Media Rap in February, but somehow I missed it. If you haven’t seent it you need to check it out. Personally, I like his  Design & Coding rap better, but I like them all.

If you’ve ever studied Mass Communications or Journalism you always discuss the purpose of Mass Communications in your introductory course. One of those purposes is to pass on cultural ideals/norms/values. We just had sloppy joes for dinner. I had to pass on Adam Sandler‘s Lunch Lady Land to my kids. [...]

Another side of this whole paid content debate is the concept that Google is stealing the newspapers content and is evil.  Pretty much anyone who is out there advocating a pay wall for newspapers stories is also a proponent of keeping Google away from their content. The funny thing is [...]

Twitter has been in the news a lot this week with the race to million followers between Ashton & CNN and Oprah’s introducing twitter to her huge audience, not to mention the techie audience blowback to Oprah and her new followers.  I’m glad that Oprah has introduced twitter to a [...]

Mitch (see comment) sent me a Business Week article this week about the latest attempt to charge for online content fostered by Steven Brill.  He’s proposing creating a consortium of a lot of different content providers that the reader would pay a subscription fee to access the content. I really [...]

According to Nielsen online video viewing in the United States is now over three hours a month to 169 minutes a month on average. Those numbers are significant, but the bigger part of the analysis to me is “Since the number of minutes per user is increasing at a faster [...]

Paid content will not save newspapers. Despite what many old journalism hands have said (including pay wall poster child Little Rock’s own Walter Hussman). Paid content limits your audience size and audience growth eventually flattens out. Here’s what the former head of NYTimes.com has to say about paid content… Thanks [...]

Here’s a hilarious video about what happens when a blog hires some laid-off newspaper employees Thanks to Chris for sharing the video.