Author: Jack Lail

  • Everything is broken about newspapers

    Seth Godin says his 2006 talk, “Everything is Broken,” still rings true for the most part. I think most of us would agree if business is getting smarter, they’re not sharing. Which let me to muse about what’s still “broken” (or maybe the most critically broken things) about newspapers? Mark Cuban says one is the…

  • The funny thing about growth curves

    Jay Small has a smart take on the similarity of Twitter’s audience retention woes and those of local news sites: The consumer value of a social-status service like Twitter resembles the value of “news” as a service. It is incidentally important, but not always important, and never all important to any one person. The intervals…

  • A petition worth signing