By realizing content links news outlets and creating a barter system, Scott Karp’s Publish2 offers an interesting approach to the “content graph” networked information has created.
In a superb article by Eric Alterman, the New Yorker has assessed the state of American newspapers, and the rise of the Huffington Post. The (r)evolution is viewed through the lenses of Walter Lippmann‘s debates with John Dewey in the […]
Twitter and Ning are both tremendously popular online tools-but popularity does not immediately translate into revenue. While the two companies are in decidedly different positions, each is trying to find a way to monetize all that traffic.
[…] the past. To them this is all just another blip, a little shift in their business, like going from black-and-white newspapers to color, or going from broadsheet to tabloid. But that’s not it at all. We’re talking about an entirely […]
Can current AI offerings be trusted as research tools?
Chris Houghton discusses how digital archives and new tools are changing approaches for Digital Humanities researchers.
Tony Sanfilippo looks at the historical books of Dard Hunter and the future of printed works in an increasingly digital and consolidated world.
[…] is leading to some notable changes, with Google launching its new Subscription Tools and making these available to some large newspapers. It is also leading to more investment in content, with Amazon expected to spend $5 billion this year in […]
[…] companies peddling trollery, every click is money in the bank. These are the economics that have gutted traditional media, from newspapers to books to journals, eroding important bulwarks against untruths and propaganda sources. After all, Facebook, Google, and Twitter are […]
[…] about the ways that, from the very beginning of the Revolution, Patriot leaders made a concerted decision, reflected strongly in newspapers, to construe and to twin their new enemy, the British, with African Americans and Native Americans. The way to […]
[…] away. So, not only will they know about Barack Obama’s speech on race, they will watch it on YouTube. If newspapers keep just sending out the news, they remain vulnerable. Very vulnerable. Are magazines falling into their own trap? A […]
[…] soon – if ever. Although increasing numbers of us prefer to read at least some sorts of publications online – newspapers and journal articles in my case – I don’t know anyone who wants to read everything digitally, even my […]
The New York Times’ “Innovation” Report will hit a lot of nerves when it comes to strategy, long-term transformation, investment, digital operations, silos, print legacy, and organizational culture. And it will remind you how barely contained panic looks to others.
[…] leading to cutbacks in print, leading to more reliance on online, leading to less print advertising, and so forth. College newspapers are suffering as much as local papers in an era when print’s power is routinely undervalued. With ad lines […]
[…] merely to physical matter. When social establishments are obliterated, others move in to take their place. The rapid decline of newspapers in the United States has hit science journalism hard. The Science section — if your newspaper actually had one […]