April 2009
26 posts
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Why Bit.ly Will Upstage Digg →
Takes a step out of “voting” on a link by Digging it. Makes sense to me — and will stop people from begging for Diggs, which is unabashedly annoying. Play on, Om.
March 2009
56 posts
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“The most profitable newspapers have tended to be monopoly markets with...”
– Jonathan Knee, Senior Managing Director, Evercore Partners & director of the media program at the Columbia Business School
One Banker’s Plan to Save the Newspaper Industry - Deal Journal - WSJ
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“The beauty of the online business model is if you can drive revenue high enough,...”
– Sarah Chubb, President, Conde Nast Digital
From Internet Nickels to Digital Dollars - Consumer @ FolioMag.com
“People who still think ‘The Freedom Tower’ is a good name for the new WTC...”
– I prefer the “Let’s Roll Star Spangled Ass Kicking Center for the Advancement of Jingoism.”
Alex Pareene (via woodlandcreature)
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WTF Guy Kawasaki?
How rude:
“Basically, for 99.9 percent of people on Twitter, it is about updating friends and colleagues about how the cat rolled over,” [Kawasaki] said. “For a tenth of a percent it is a marketing tool.” [via When Stars Twitter, a Ghost May Be Lurking.]
I don’t really use Twitter as a marketing tool — though I’m fine with those who do — but WTF?...
Can Walgreens Solve the Health-Care Crisis? | Fast... →
“I told my oldest son, who’s 25, that every generation has left this country better than the last, but it looks like mine might leave us in sorry shape. What I can personally do to change that is to try to change health care.”
[FD: I have a position in WAG, as they say in business-talk]
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Today is #tenbuckthursday! →
I’ll be at Social Media for Social Change next Friday night. It’ll be good — for fun and for the world. Please help out — or come! — if you can.
mknell:
As you may already be aware, I’m involved with a great organization called Social Media for Social Change that mobilizes the connections people make online into in-person fundraising events around…
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1000s of Lego Minifigs
I definitely had the Lego forest/Robin Hood guys from ‘87 and the pirate ship guys from ‘89.
listicles:
Ever want to see the entire lineage of Lego minifigs since their inception in 1978? Check out Gizmodo’s listicle chronicling each of the 1000s of Lego Minifigs.
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Naked Photo Hunt NYC Meetup? Great idea →
Photo Hunt is hard. You need at least two people to have a chance of seeing five pairs of questionably attractive ladies (or dudes, but everyone knows that’s less fun).
brianvan:
adamiss:
or we could just compare scores from the online version
BUT THAT’S NO FUN! We need to get drunk and do it in teams of 3-5 people in the same place.
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“Charging readers for content might work, but it needs to be a consistent...”
– Bill Grueskin, former managing editor of WSJ.Com
Reflections of a Newsosaur: Can WSJ pay model work at other sites?
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Foursquare Use & Abuse
Is there a right way and a wrong way to use Foursquare?
I think so. I think of Foursquare as being a social connector, in the traditional in-person, “Mike’s a few blocks away eating a burger let’s go meet him and steal some of his fries” way. I confess I also like the badges; yesterday I unlocked “Far and Away” for going above 59th Street — to eat...
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“But the show could not break with the genre’s tradition of hokey, hopeful...”
– We could all use a little more hopeful earnestness. If that’s hokey — and I don’t think it was or is — what’s the point?
Television - ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ a Show About the Universe, Raises Questions on Earth - NYTimes.com
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““I think I did the initial on this place,” Mr. Brewer said. “If it’s the house...”
– Haunting look at what happens to foreclosed homes, and those who clean them up.
Foreclosure Trash Out - Ill Fortune and Its Leavings - NYTimes.com
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“Why did I sign with the Nationals?” Tavárez said on Sunday. “When...”
– Angry and erratic relief pitcher Julian Tavarez on why he signed with the Nationals.
Surviving Grady: A Diary of Unhealthy Red Sox Obsession
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“NANCY AND AZIZ LAMAZOU hail from Lebanon and Tunisia. During Mr. Lamazou’s years...”
– These fine people run my favorite sandwich shop in NYC, Lamazou. This review hardly does it justice. See for yourself.
$25 and Under - Two Sandwich Shops Are Within Blocks but Worlds Apart - Review - NYTimes.com
“Of course the big question is whether local media can find new ways to create...”
– The Great Seattle Advertising Experiment: What Will Happen to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Print Advertising Dollars? - Publishing 2.0
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The New Hard Times - NYT →
The NYTimes is encouraging you to record/edit interviews with folks who lived through The Great Depression and upload them.
Cool citizen journalism or gimmick? I think the former.
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“Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the...”
– Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
“If you’ve ever watched the scene where Garth is working on the mechanical hand...”
– Movie Trivia: Wayne’s World. Zang! - Neatorama
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Once every hundred thousand years or so
When the sun doth shine and the moon doth glow
And the grass doth grow ooooh
100 Things More Popular Than Twitter →
Including Furbies, n’Sync and … Niagara Falls?
From what I can find, only 1-3 million people visit the Falls per year. Maybe natural wonder status also helps popularity.
Update: Nicholas Carlson did his research: 12M people/year. I stand corrected (though I’d rather tweet than go there).
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The Death of Newspapers [/ The Rise of...
And if you want the full buffet of news, you pay a subscription cost for full online access. I think it would have to work across major outlets — NYT/LAT/WaPo etc.
The sharing is where it gets tricky — but if the micropayments system were fully integrated, I guess people would still pay for the news, wherever they stumbled upon it.
The bigger issue for the average reader I think is...
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“There is a business here,” [Los Angeles Times Editor (for now) Russ]...”
– Stanton supposes an all-digital paper — er, media organization — could support 150 journalists, or just under one-quarter of the current editorial phalanx of 625, which has already been significantly reduced. (The Times is a bankrupt Tribune Co. joint, after all.)
Surely there was/is...
“Subsequent monitoring showed that in the early morning, before the zoo opened,...”
– Zoo Chimp Plans for His Visitors, Stockpiling Rocks - NYTimes.com
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“We’re seeing the newspaper business collapse in slow motion, but what will...”
– Journalism Goes Local With Times, Patch, New Start-ups - Advertising Age
This is an editorially-endorsed fact now? Would it be more fair to say, “traditional newspaper business?”
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