Journalism, Technology, History

Good news for a good idea

Scott Karp’s Publish2 has raised $2.75 million in Series A funding from Velocity Interactive Group. Congratulations! Read the news. I’ve been experimenting in one area of Publish2 and Karp’s vision of the future, link journalism. I had been dabbling in...

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That New Coke moment

Companies often have the uncanny ability to do precisely the wrong thing at the exact right time. Business history is a virtual junkyard of Edsels, New Cokes, Bic pantyhose. Decisions months or years later reveal themselves as the turning point...

Earth Hour gets buzz

There was a lot of buzz on Twitter this morning about Earth Hour. Here’s a sampling from Tweet Scan, a “real time” Twitter search engine. Oh yeah, follow me on Twitter. Despil : @scarab I thought we have about 6...

Black is the new green

Betcha noticed this today. Good for Google; let’s see if we notice lights out between 8 and 9 p.m.  tonight. I somewhat suspect that life will go on fairly normally between 8 and 9 p.m.  And granted “Earth Hour” is...

The 50-year flood is here

2007 was the worst year for newspaper advertising in 50 years, according to industry trade group, the Newspaper Association of America. Revenues were down industry-wide by 9.4 percent. Online ad revenues were up 18.8 percent, but make up but 7.5...

Speaking of speaking again

Someone screwed up again and put me on a conference panel next week as part of something at UT called “Public Conversation on Web Journalism.”

Angry Journalist as career Yoda

What? Angry Journalist sees future in much-maligned industry for J-School grads? Call it optimism tempered by realism, Yoda teaches careers in journalism. Bryan Murley pointed me to a great piece on his Innovation in College Media blog by Kiyoshi Martinez,...

Mixing it up with a startup

Rage of the day.Muxtape.com. Lost Remote’s Cory Bergman calls it “Super mega coolness.” Brittney Gilbert has done one celebrating Nashville.  There’s more, of course. Launched Tuesday. Have you account yet?
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