Month: February 2009

  • A Darwinist Tale: The evolution of “Big Iron” to “Scrap Iron”

    It’s nice to see Jay Small blogging more. On Friday, he lays out some scenarios for the survival of printed news (not including the online migration of printed news). He suggests a combination of digital printing, customization and frequency changes might be the adaptations that bring new life to the ancestral line of the Gutenberg…

  • About those friend requests …

    Read Write Web on new Forrester study (from @jowyang): In 2007, the percentage of Boomers consuming social media was 46% for younger Boomers (ages 43 to 52) and 39% for older Boomers (ages 53 to 63). By 2008, those number increased to 67% and 62%, respectively. … Almost one in four younger Boomers (43-52) are…

  • It’s in the way that we use it

    Scripps exec Jay Small on newspaper video: Focus on video when it is the best storytelling tool for the job. For example: Raw video from a warehouse fire? Great – rough cut it and post it. Two minutes of a print reporter standing in front of a courthouse reading components of a prose story? Not…