[…] 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?
[…] ambit of the First Amendment be protected from taxation policy that could purposely or accidentally eliminate free speech? Of course, newspapers and other publications have to pay taxes, but they are usually larger entities and not run by individuals. Again, […]
[…] entirely on the book and covered topics such as e-book readers, print-on-demand, the effect of celebrities (like Oprah) on book sales, and why book reviews are vanishing from our newspapers. (image from the New Yorker) New Yorker Magazine Summer Fiction Issue
The “crisis in scholarly communication” makes good narrative.
[…] Devices like the iPad and the Kindle are usable for many different things. A Kindle can be used to read newspapers, books, blogs, and personal documents. An iPad can be used to browse the Web, read email, and many other […]
Open data initiatives by many governments will change balance sheets for publishers who have shifted toward this revenue source. Will the social benefits emerge?
[…] a paper tiger, held up by elderly white men. But the best of them were given pause: themselves educated by newspapers, magazines, and books, they did not wish for these things to disappear entirely. (For one thing, who would publish […]
Is editorial knowledge generation the last “production shop” available for digital improvement?
When an author conceals information, and a blog branded with a respectable newspaper plays along, it doesn’t engender confidence in the new information space.