Demand Side Economics
Recently I wrote a couple of posts about Apple’s plan to charge vendors 30% of the transaction price for anything sold through the Apple Store (aka App Store). For many things like software and songs I think this makes a lot of sense. If you consider that the SG&A line of a [...]
Setting the Record Straight: the After-life of an Article. Oracle, HP, SAP, Journalism, Conflict of Interest–You Name it.
This is just a quick Editorial note to draw attention to the very significant piece Josh Greenbaum published last Saturday. You may have missed it – who reads blogs on a weekend? But the post had significant after-life, including an Editorial correction appended to the original New York Time article that started it all. Worth [...]
Forbes Blogs To Get A Big Upgrade, Every Reporter Will Have One
Every Forbes reporter will get a blog… this is smart because it forces the individual to build a distinct brand in the market and it gets us closer to a interactive model for journalism. However, having blogs is not the same as having community and if the journalists ignore the activity in the comment streams [...]
Wikileaks and the Plumbing of Journalism
The web has way of asking big questions of society. And right now WikiLeaks is asking very big questions. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange describes the recent release of 90k documents about the Afghanistan war thusly, in a SPIEGEL interview: Assange:…
The Headline as Content
One of the challenges in deciphering online news is that a catchy headline is often peddled instead of the actual story, something fully on display today in a NYTimes article.
As an exercise to demonstrate this, read the headline below and stop to consider your emotional and intellectual response:
“Wall St. Hiring in Anticipation of an Economic Recovery”
Journolist, Confidentiality, and Pageviews
Last week there was a minor scandal involving the Washington Post and a blogger on their payroll who was covering conservative political issues for the Post. The short short version of the story is that the blogger, Dave Weigel, resigned after inappropriate and disparaging comments about the very people he was hired to cover were [...]
Woman in High Tech & The New York Times Out of the Loop
Out of the loop is the original title of a New York Times article discussing how difficult it is for women entrepreneurs to get funded, or generally to get into the management ranks in business. A title that backfires … but you’ll have to wait to see why. The first case discussed @ the NYT [...]
Ken Doctor’s 12 Trends of Newsonomics
Ken Doctor’s recent book, Newsonomics is a fine tour of the forces (a tour de force) transforming the news industry as we enters “the Digital News Decade.” Though the disruption has been underway for a dozen years and the crisis for the news industry crescendoed to a clamor in 2009, it is still too early [...]
Good Luck Steering the Titanic
USA Today’s (former) Travel Editor blogs her last day, after getting laid off: But what bothers me the most is what my firing represented. See, I’ve been learning all the tricks that a modern multi-platform journalist is supposed to know. In the past 22 months, I’ve blogged, tweeted, shot photos and videos, and handled speaking [...]
