Why SF Chronicle is Failing
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I had a conversation yesterday that spurred me to think back to the “old days” of the World Wide Web. You see, I’ve been at this game long enough to remember Yahoo before it was at Yahoo.com. Most of you probably don’t know that it used to live at http://akebono.stanford.edu. In any case, I took…
Here’s a good one. Wendy Davis of MediaPost says that Rupert Murdoch is “clueless” for wanting the names of Wall Street Journal subscribers on the Kindle. She rolls out the phrase “tone deaf to the privacy concerns” as it regards the News Corp leader.
PaidContent’s Rafat Ali has the scoop on the future of Topix, the local news aggregator and search site owned by several competing newspaper companies. Apparently, as they rebrand from Topix.net to Topix.com, they will also be changing the focus of their site from software-selected content to human editors and citizen journalism. The homepage will become…
I happen to believe that podcasts are much more interesting when they have listener comments. Though I don’t share Michael O’Connor Clarke’s general disdain for the quality of podcasts, I do share his distaste for “the kissyfest ‘love the show’ comments from loyal listeners.” The problem with most comments is that, like letters to the…
An interesting confluence of news and events today brings us information on declining CD sales at the same time that many in the blogosphere/podosphere are advocating an effort to “Bum Rush the Charts.” First the news. The Wall Street Journal reports that “compact-disc sales for the first three months of this year plunged 20% from…
Regular readers know that I strongly believe that one should use the right medium for the message you are communicating. That is after all one of the huge underlying themes of The New Media Cocktail. My friend Doug Simon demonstrates this aptly on his video blog with a very entertaining parody of Michael Moore. Now,…