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Five Articles I Wish I could Take Back
Last night I was going through Google archives looking for a post (that I never found) from 2007-2008. I went through 30 some pages of search results and remembered some of the older content I wrote. Some of it is stuff I either wish I didn’t write or I don’t agree with anymore. So I…
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The Death of Newspapers. Or Not.
Note that this is a multiple page post. If you are reading in some feed readers, you may not get the entirety of the article unless you come to the site itself. The question posed over at Friendfeed asks, “Are blogs killing newspapers?” The answer, quite simply, is no they are not. I have talked…
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Advocacy for Professional Consultants
A funny thing happened on the way to an SEO Mecca. The New York Times decided to fold all of the content of the International Herald Tribune into NYTimes.com as an SEO play. Gawker has the full backstory. If you don’t feel like reading, the New York Times has been asking Google for enhanced SERPs…
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New York Times Makes Massive Leap in Bringing Congressional Data to the Web
For all the talk in DC about transparency in government, that seemed (at least in my sense) to really come to the forefront of everyone’s attention with the House Rules on social media use issue last July, then escalated with the Senate, the bailouts and finally the election of one of the most social media…
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Roadmap to Victory at Washington Post
Early last month, after the Tribune Company announced that it would enter bankruptcy protection, the conversation surrounding the demise of newspapers and the newspaper industry heated back up. Of course, we suggested that there should be an opportunity for new media to emerge in the newsrooms. Today, the news comes from the New York Times…
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The Roadmap For Building a 21st Century Newspaper
Yesterday, I weighed in on the Tribune Company bankruptcy filing, noting that where voids might be created by the disappearance of established newspaper brands, there was opportunity for those nimble enough and digitally savvy enough to adjust. In my mind, as I wrote that, I was thinking primarily of alternate newspapers, but had a dream…
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Trolls and Adversity
This evening I spent a large chunk of time surfing through a variety of websites, perusing my feed reader and Googling stories for Green week this week. My perusing led me down a rabbit trail that, honestly, I’ve wanted to talk about but events of recent days now compell me to talk about. Internet fame…
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Walled Gardens and Business Models in the 21st Century
Walled Gardens. Defined as media properties utilizing privileged access to provide information services or content to a user. The classic example of a walled garden was AOL, before they opened up most of their services. Users paid $23.95 or whatever the access rate was and got access to the “AOL Network.” Then there was Facebook,…