[…] ratios, self indulgence and wild proliferation blogging is now a fact of the written word as much as letters, novels, newspapers and emails. I can recall in the early 1990s a penchant in the ether for complaining that people weren’t […]
[…] with real knowledge of their fields speaking directly with an audience of non-experts. On the downside, it seems like many newspapers and magazines are recruiting bloggers for science coverage as a cost-cutting measure. Bloggers seem willing to accept lower pay […]
Does thinking about technology as something new and different gerrymander strategies and initiatives in unhelpful ways? Maybe we need to accept that the future has arrived for our users.
[…] ratios, self indulgence and wild proliferation blogging is now a fact of the written word as much as letters, novels, newspapers and emails. Like many disruptive technologies, a blog’s “weaknesses” — the quick-hit writing with links substituting for wordiness, the […]
Apple’s apparent abuse of its platform dominance may signal a basic incompatibility between providers and platforms.
[…] pressure builds to revert those rights. McGraw-Hill thus joins other book publishers, journals publishers, Hollywood movie studios, television producers, and newspapers in viewing subsidiary rights licenses as short-term opportunities and long-term obstacles for developing their businesses. Vestron’s Law takes its […]
In 2011, the power of the individual consumer will set your strategies.
[…] serious business approaches are coming to the fore. The idea that traffic automatically equals revenue has repeatedly been disproven, and newspapers and television networks are pulling back their free offerings in favor of models that offer a chance for profit. […]
The Wikileaks scandal shows that commercial cloud providers aren’t ready for the realities of publishing and information hosting.
[…] if such a monolithic entity can be said to exist any longer. What do trade books or consumer magazines or newspapers have to do with STM and scholarly information? Does the fact that these various disparate information vehicles used to […]
Is our future defined by third-party aggregators? Or is there a business opportunity there worth fighting for?
[…] message is subtler and ultimately more powerful. It is produced by the medium’s features — broadcast, scholarship, and so on. Newspapers create a framework for history, which is more important than their content. A hammer creates a way to wield […]
[…] distribution and create cost efficiencies while doing so. Latency as defined by the provider (think of the days when afternoon newspapers could exist) allowed for time for the packaging and bulk production to occur. Abundance — true abundance — allows […]
[…] stood steadfast like a rock in the waves, eroding slowly at first, with big chunks now being ripped away as newspapers fail, bookstores buckle, and newsweeklies shut down. It’s been hard to know what to do. Some reactions have been […]
Is your brand truly one brand in the digital world? Or has the new media space fractured it?