Caught an interesting post at PJNet:
Beneath the somber tales of shrinking revenues and staff cuts is an even more somber reality about the news business: The nearly two-century-old marriage between consumer advertising and journalism is on the rocks.
Good stuff…
Categories: new media · web concepts
Tagged: news, newspapers, journalism, ads, sales
This was an article from the NYT about a family going virtually paperless.
Mr. Uhlik, an engineering director at Google, and his family live a practically paper-free life. The children are home-schooled on computers. Other sources of household paper — lists, letters, calendars — have become entirely digital.
I really like the image/graphic they added with - but didn’t give enought emphasis to. When you think paperless home or office - sometimes we leave out the paper towels and coffee filters!
Categories: environment · innovation
Tagged: eco, environment, paperless
I like the style they use over at Reflections of a Newsosaur - they recently posted an article called “Help wanted. Desperately.” speaking to the serous decline in print revenues generated by recruitment advertising:
The sad state of the recruitment advertising business provides an instructive look at how the tradition-bound newspaper industry copes (or doesn’t) with change.
The post is good and goes in depth to some of the problems facing newspapers today. Check it out - and let me know what you think possible actions newspapers may take to get back in the game!
Categories: new media
Tagged: loss, newspaper, recruitment
I love Lifehacker…it seems like there is always something I enjoy reading, like the post about hiding cables in the trim:
Hide your networking and television cables with WireTracks, a wire management solution that hides your messy cables behind crown molding and baseboards.
Good stuff.
Categories: innovation
Tagged: cables, hide, network
This is a very well written article that explores some insight others may not have:
Here’s a case where I think everyone else has got it wrong. The media seems to be positioning Microsoft’s hostile takeover of Yahoo as an admission on the part of Microsoft that they’ve lost their competitive edge. And Google, clearly worried, is making anti-trust noises, claiming that the proposed merger would destroy market competition. Both positions are utterly absurd, in my view.
He makes some great points why he feels this deal will fail - but makes it clear that many are not pointing to the things he is.
Categories: future · new media
Tagged: deal, google, microsoft, yahoo
There has been a bit of buzz about the concept of free and how much business is gained or lost from the idea. Here is a post on SocialMediaToday called “How Does ‘Free’ Impact Your Business?“
The “free” model doesn’t fit well with traditional business models and mindsets. People have a hard time figuring out how to convert “free” to earnings. Most everyone considers the social web as a primary point of distribution for advertising and view advertising as the only means for converting free to earnings.
Chris Anderson - author of The Long Tail has a neat podcast over at IT Conversations called “FREE: The Economics of Abundance and the Price of Zero“
We think of free as scary and radical but this economy has always existed. Previously not dignified as an economy, its currency is not money: It is reputation, attention, respect, fame, fun or money from a superior service after giving away something inferior for free.
I think we all need to take a good look at how we are doing “free” today and check to see how much something costs and what the impact of giving something away will have on our business.
Categories: new media
Tagged: free, Long Tail, marketing, social media
This was a post last week speaking about different companies data - and how “clean” it is:
People don’t trust other people these days. According to Stephen M.R. Covey in his new book, The Speed of Trust, “only 34% of Americans believe that other people can be trusted.” My bet is that it’s even lower for companies. Which is a sad state of affairs, if you think about it.
Are we surprised? With the writer’s strike making online TV viewing about as entertaining as back-to-back-to-back episodes of “Are you Smarter than a Third Grader?”
Another week, and another stat has just been released showing that people are increasingly turning to the web to consume televised entertainment. The latest from Solutions Research Group claims that 80 million Americans (43 percent of its online population) have watched their favorite TV shows on the web, and that 20 percent watch TV on the web on a weekly basis.
Who knows - maybe the writers strike will drive all TV viewing online…who knows?
Categories: new media
Tagged: broadcast, tv, video, writers strike
It’s funny as I ponder the idea of switching from a PC to Mac. On one had you get the Mac fanboys telling you its so easy - there is no problem. You’ll just “know” how to use it when you get one - and then we get a link from Apple showing us how to “make the switch“.
Maybe I too geeky - or maybe I’m resiting the move, but it seems like I want to have more comparisons. Like “finder” on the Mac is similar to “my computer” on a PC.
I guess I’ll have to keep looking - maybe there are videos by some PC users who have made the switch.
Categories: community · innovation
Tagged: aplle, mac, pc, switch
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