Traditional (“old”) media finds itself experiencing an earthquake of change as online (“new”) media changes the rules of the game. Some publishers and broadcasters find themselves struggling to adapt, while others thrive on the ability to innovate. The competition becomes more intense by the day and the fears among old school journalists and media executives…
Anyone who knows me understands that I’m a Slingbox addict. I got the device shortly after they were first released. I adopted their mobile phone viewer within hours of its availability. I talk about it constantly. I evangelize it in bars and restaurants where I can be found watching TV on my cell phone, the…
A Realtor in the San Francisco area tried an experiment where he compared newspaper listings to web listings. He discovered that the newspapers drove virtually no people to see the homes in question, while 89% were web-based leads. He at first attributed this to the proximity to Silicon Valley, so he tried a second home in…
From PaidContent: For the 12th straight quarter, newspaper websites saw their ad revenues rise; this time around, the increase was 22.3 percent to $750 million in Q1 compared to the same period a year ago, according to estimates from the Newspaper Association of America. For context, online made up 7.1 percent of total newspaper ad…
John Battelle looks at what’s really ailing the San Francisco Chronicle. clipped from battellemedia.com Up until recently, the Chronicle had 400 journalists working at the paper. FOUR HUNDRED! When I wrote for the LA Times, I often wrote two stories a day. Is the Chronicle pumping out 800 stories a day? Is it breaking all…
The line between newspapers and TV blur more and more every day. Heck, we may as well include radio in the mix. The new media universe on the web allows all forms of old media to encroach on each other’s territory. The Wall Street Journal and other papers provide audio and video coverage on their…
The concept of information overload is hardly new. But in the age of social media, we’re all inundated with so much information a daily basis that it’s hard to keep up. I know I have trouble keeping up with 233 feeds on a daily basis. I’ve done my best to organize them into logical folders…
While many in the newspaper industry seem headed toward making more and more content available for free online and pursuing an advertising strategy, the publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Walter E. Hussman Jr. wrote yesterday in the Wall Street Journal that free content may be the problem that ails the newspaper industry rather than the…
On May 15, Doug Haslam of Topaz Partners and I will present a Social Media Skills Workshop for the PRSA Yankee Chapter. The event will be held at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, NH from 1-5 PM. Cost is $35 for PRSA Yankee Chapter members and $45 for non-members. This will be an information…
Dave Winer offers an interesting post on his vision of the future of news on television. He sees a time when viewers get to control their personal view of the news. By providing preference information, they would see the kinds of stories they’re most interested in. He suggests it would become a “river of news,”…