Journalism, Technology, History

Four in three

Crammed four sessions into three days. Ought to be doing five instead of four.  

If you can't measure audience, measure results

On the widely varying results of Web audience measurement: “One of them can be right, or the other one is right, but they can’t all be right,” said Jack Wakshlag, chief research officer at Turner Broadcasting System. “It’s interesting that...

B movies be free

A local business blog has has some insights to an interesting new Web venture in KnoxVegas, bmovies.com from DMGX. It launched Oct. 5 without advertising or SEM, but is attracting viewers rapidly. Wade Austin of DMGX says: The business plan...

I'd give you a good cussing if it'd do any good

Random thoughts on cursing, cussing and dirty words in general. Steven Pinker uses 5,200 words to explain why we we curse in The New Republic article Why we curse, but he could have just stuck with “To begin with, it’s...

Read to riches

Buried in Valleywag’s gloating over a tiny dip in print ad revenues at The Wall Street Journal was a more telling stat: The paper’s print readership went up 8 percent in the past year after its publishers cut subscription rates....

Lessons from the latest wave

I, like Dan Pacheco, believe the tipping point for traditional newspapers is within three to five years. Depending on how you look at it, the tipping point has already past, but like an earthquake in the middle of the ocean,...

Critics "with attitude"

Oh my! Greg Sterling on his encounter with a restaurant that has posted a sign that says “No Yelpers.” Snarky! Imagine that. Could this be UCG backlash? To work, users reviews aggregated have to approach the truth to be valuable...
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