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March 26, 2008
Eric Alterman has penned an impressively thorough look at the state of the newspaper industry for the New Yorker, where he explains everything that's hurting newspapers, including the web. The following snippet illustrates one of the biggest challenges I have...
March 18, 2008
What is the biggest difference between web copy and print copy? Hyperlinks: What is Web Copy and How Should I Use It? Offline copy (like a billboard) isn't interactive. Web copy (like what you read on this blog) is. Web...
March 6, 2008
Because their experience with the web to date has been horrible. Scott Karp's recent post, The Only Way For Journalists To Understand The Web Is To Use It, brings to light a problem that I hadn't thought about before: If...
February 26, 2008
Last night in St Paul, Minnesota, a group of local bloggers and members of the mainstream media got together to discuss ethics in new media. The event (considering it was in Minnesota on a Monday night) was heavily covered online...
February 25, 2008
Presidential Watch 08 has a fascinating map that illustrates how online political sites interact with each other. The blue and red dots represent the left and right sides of American politics while the yellow dots represent mass media outlets including...
February 20, 2008
The Tribune Company's new owner, Sam Zell, addressed the Chicago staff about his dislike of approval signatures, the need to be more creative, try more things, fail more often, but learn from mistakes among other topics in this hour long...
February 12, 2008
Here is a common scenario among bloggers who write about their local communities: they have a variety of news sources to choose from when they're citing a local story. For example, in Minneapolis we have two large local daily newspapers,...
January 30, 2008
When was the last time you: 1. Watched a friend buy a newspaper so he could browse the classifieds? 2. Heard a land-line phone ring at a friend's house? 3. Heard a dial-up modem connect? 4. Watched someone go to...
January 23, 2008
Anyone who've following the evolution of Google Maps Mashups for a while is probably familiar with the first one to really prove what could be done with the technology: Chicago Crime. The man behind that site, Adrian Holovaty, has since...
January 16, 2008
All technology eventually dies. It doesn't happen overnight, but eventually a smaller, faster, or more powerful version comes along that does a better job solving the same problem. One piece of dying tech that caught me by surprise with...
January 13, 2008
Take a look at the front page of the Sunday, Jan 13 2008 edition of the Minneapolis StarTribune. This shot comes from the eEdition, which is an electronic version with a print layout. Lead Story: Two 80-year-old's got married....
November 29, 2007
Alex Iskold penned a post the on Read/Write Web about the revenue potential of blogs in the long tail, aka blogs with little traffic. He's found a correlation between how much traffic a blog gets and how much money it...
October 31, 2007
Minnesota Public Radio took a look at the comment moderation policies used at newspapers throughout the state of Minnesota and reported on the challenged faced by providing a forum for readers. Policies ranged from not allowing comments on one extreme...
September 18, 2007
In April 2006, I theorized that the columnists at the NY Times would push the Times drop the paid version because Select was hurting both the influence and secondary sales of columnist's book sales and speaking rates. While I'm still...
September 11, 2007
Erica M from Minneapolis Metroblogging raises an interesting point about the stupidity of offering social bookmarking options for readers on sites where bookmarked content will soon be hidden behind paid archives: Not-So-Permalinks Can somebody explain to me the point of...
August 18, 2007
I've been trying to figure out why newspapers don't make more money online, and think I stumbled across one reason that's so obvious I previously overlooked it. It's summarized well in one sentence on the Minneapolis StarTribune's advertising information page:...
August 14, 2007
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