It makes me sad to admit this, but I must confess I have paid for online content. You probably have too if you you are among the 65 percent of Internet users who admitted to paying for online content in a new study from the  Pew Internet & the American [...]

As my first post of the new year, here’s my web, technology and communications predictions for 2011 and beyond. Don’t let me forget to check up next year and see how many I’ve gotten right. Social Media Twitter will stagnate and be recognized as a niche product. Twitter’s web traffic [...]

Flash content is an important part of the overall mix of web content and has a steeper learning curve than most other kinds of web content creation. Unfortunately, Macromedia and now Adobe have changed the flash creation process/interface so often that if you once learned flash it’s like you’re starting [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

When it comes to web video length , I’ve always said the shorter the better with a sweet spot being around 60 to 90 seconds. Video 2 Zero has taken an interesting look at  how long people will watch web video analyzing audience attention span coming to the conclusion that [...]

Today, January 1, 2009, Popeye the Sailor falls into public domain in Britian 70 years after it’s creators death because of an EU law that restricts the rights of authors to 70 years after their death. Falling into the public domain means anyone can print and sell posters, T-shirts and [...]

The Pew Research Center released their top stories of 2008 report (pdf) and the big news in their report is not what the top stories are, but where people found them. In 2008 forty percent of the respondents to this national survey said they found their international and national news [...]

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch is reporting that they are hearing predictions for content web site revenues to be down fifty to eighty percent in 2009 with “the median pessimism point around 50%.” The only thing that can be said is on the other side, those that survive will be stronger [...]

Chris Bogan has posted a great list of 40 Ways to Deliver Blog Content. Not that I follow it, but if I wanted to have an awesome blog, I would.