The Cyberbrains had the following discussion over e-mail the last few days (I know, we are so old school.) It all started when Clyde asked how Web pages looked on an iPhone and evolved into a treatise on the viability of the mobile web. It included Cyberbrains Clyde Bentley, Joe Kokenge, Jeremy Littau, Deborah Mason, [...]
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McSneaks!
I wasn’t quite sure how to react when Clyde passed this link to me and the rest of the Cyberbrains. My wife was sitting next to me in our downstairs office / sewing room (She sews, not me!) and I didn’t want to break into histrionics. Besides, she’s an intelligent news consumer as well, with [...]
Vanity Fair’s history of the Net
This month’s (or actually next month’s, July-month’s) Vanity Fair has a great article “An oral history of the Internet: How the Web Was Won.”
The article does just that, with quotes and anecdotes from the big names today, the guys and gals who made all the dough and quotes from the egg-heads who made it all [...]
Standing behind what you print, even if you didn’t write it
Reviewing anything is a daunting task for a newspaper. Believe me - I know firsthand. After using a poor auto review from a wire service and losing our biggest advertiser at a weekly I helped I start, I don’t think I ran another review again. But newspapers and other media organizations cannot ignore reviews either. [...]
‘Sphere’ of Influence
Despite their increased popularity and use, news organizations still struggle with how to handle blogs. Do you ignore or embrace them? Do you make all your reporters write one or do you rely instead on the blogs that are already out there? The best approach that media critics and scholars have suggested is finding a [...]
Don’t cry for the Times
For about a year, I felt like I was the sports king of the world. I had just won my newspaper’s fantasy football league. The Denver Broncos had just beaten the favored Green Bay Packers to win the Super Bowl, and I could follow it all with my new subscription to ESPN.com’s Insider package. Actually, [...]
The Amazon Model
Reading Jeremy’s last post about what newspapers could learn from Starbucks made me remember an article I read not too long ago about Amazon.com and its founder Jeff Bezos. What newspaper’s really need in a day when investors demands for more and more profit are forcing wholesale staff cuts is a man like Bezos who [...]