Imagine if, 25 years ago, a time traveler from the present day appeared to newspaper, television and radio executives to outline the media landscape in 2008. He’d tell them about how the Internet has dramatically increased the number of media outlets and how it’s enabled everyone to opine or present news via text, audio or […]
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If (traditional) media companies saw the writing on the wall…
Published by April 1st, 2008 in Blogs, Mass Media, New Media, Social Media, Web/Internet, Weblogs and Workplace. 0 CommentsThere’s a chance to slip up around every corner
Published by April 17th, 2007 in New Media, Social Networking, Web 2.0 and Weblogs. 0 CommentsA world where reputations are destroyed with a slip of the tongue is a very perilous world, indeed. Twenty years ago one could make a remark in bad taste on television, or the radio or even in print and chances are, unless it was remarkably offensive, it would go largely unnoticed. Even then, the opportunity […]
How can newspapers pull themselves from the grave?
Published by March 26th, 2007 in Journalism, New Media, Technology, Web 2.0, Web/Internet, Weblogs and Writing. 0 CommentsRobert Scoble says, “Newspapers are Dead” and that his son will never “subscribe to, nor read, a newspaper.” He’s probably right. Most people my age and younger get their news online or from news/entertainment shows like The Daily Show. I’ll admit to reading papers daily, but that’s because it’s a part of my job- Otherwise […]
