A talk about me, my family and the things we love to do
Image via Wikipedia Baseball The other night there was a program on PBS talking about some of baseball’s history. The show focused on the early 1900′s through the 1920′s. Prior to the 20′s, almost all the attendees at baseball games were men. Image by The Rocketeer via Flickr Radio This all changed on August 5th, [...]
From a post I found over at SimsBlog with some really good thoughts: …is how journalists “spent nearly a century denying responsibility and involvement in business decisions”. … The result of this siloed newsroom is that a large chunk of the organization has no real understanding of how the business works. That is a very [...]
“But, I’msure the newspaper I work for is different.” I hope I don’t that quote after the people I work with read this. 80% of US Consumers Won’t Pay For Online Content.
Some of the best meat to this article is in the comments: A commenter on my blog the other day (Tim Ogilvie) mentioned a distinction that I found really interesting between intent generation and intent harvesting. via Why content sites are getting ripped off — cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog.
Word. Stop Giving the Newspapers Your Advice – They Don’t Need It – O’Reilly Radar.
GM hopes to sell cars on eBay – Jul. 10, 2009. What? Leverage a semi-new technology for increasing sales? Preposterous.
Google Maps Finally Ready to Tell You “What’s Here” for Any Point on a Map… Almost. Attention media companies – please make sure to encode geo locations with your new stories. Everyone in the world would like to mash them up for you. Thank you.
What’s black and white and evolving? « Roadies of the C3. My boss Mike drops a lot of things to ponder about newspapers and Zebras.
Image via Wikipedia Building a niche swine flu site with mainstream power | Old Media, New Tricks. This reminds me of a site we did at our “old media company” during the Super Bowl time frame. Local Cedar Rapids Iowa boy Kurt Warner was playing in yet another Super Bowl. We had a group of [...]
Image via CrunchBase After reading my CEO’s blog today – it made me think about my “call” with AT&T on Saturday. I’ve recently signed up for an iPhone from AT&T. Onto the story – I took a motorcycle ride on Saturday to meet a friend’s son for lunch. When we arrived at the restaurant, I [...]