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More Crepes & One French Waiter
I’m starting to grow fond of this Portrero Hill neighborhood in San Francisco, between the Atlas Cafe, which I wrote about last week, to Farley’s Funky Cafe for great coffee, games, magazines and...
View ArticleWorld’s Publishers v. Google: The Fight Continues (Matthew Buckland/E-Media...
I had a feeling this would be the end result. At first there was co-operation and pleasantries exchanged between the media publishers and Google, and then it all went sour. Online publishers and...
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The Future of Online Advertising Lies in the Collapse of Print
I guess it seems a bit negative to define the growth of a medium in the collapse of another, but here’s why: For most media organisations, online advertising* currently accounts for less than 20% of...
View ArticleRandom Thoughts on Social Media & Newspapers
From The Guardian Live Event Podcast in London this month, I spent more time tweeting the event than thinking about creative things to say about the decline of newspapers that hasn’t already been said...
View ArticleWhat Does the Seattle Post-Intelligencer & Uganda’s New Vision Newspaper Have...
Look at “Thinking Big by Starting Small” in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer which was co-written with Stephanie Hanson, the Director of Policy and Research at the One Acre Fund. Here is how it begins:...
View ArticleNewspass: Why Google’s Paywall Plans May Just Work
Google has been quietly testing a new paywall system for publishers it is calling “Newspass”. According to Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Google has been piloting the service with publishers in...
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From Words to Wood
This is lovely all-consuming idea: newspapers turned wood again. Kranthout, which means ‘newspaper woos’ in Dutch, is a new product made by Mieke Meijer for the design company vij5. The company says...
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Murdoch’s The Daily Is a Day Late and 99 Cents Short
Like a morning paper, the cover story of The Daily focuses on yesterday’s news. I really wanted to like The Daily, the new iPad-only newspaper from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The idea of a 21st...
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New York Post Headline Truly Tit-allating
Tops Headless Body in Topless Bar Imagine New Yorkers disappointment two weeks ago when Osama bin Laden was finally captured and killed. The city that waited nearly 10 years for justice to be done...
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The Inspiring JFK Speech On Newspapers & Secrecy
“The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings…” “…there is...
View ArticleWhat Does the Seattle Post-Intelligencer & Uganda’s New Vision Newspaper Have...
Look at “Thinking Big by Starting Small” in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer which was co-written with Stephanie Hanson, the Director of Policy and Research at the One Acre Fund. Here is how it begins:...
View ArticleFrom Words to Wood
This is lovely all-consuming idea: newspapers turned wood again. Kranthout, which means ‘newspaper woos’ in Dutch, is a new product made by Mieke Meijer for the design company vij5. The company says...
View ArticleMurdoch’s The Daily Is a Day Late and 99 Cents Short
Like a morning paper, the cover story of The Daily focuses on yesterday’s news. I really wanted to like The Daily, the new iPad-only newspaper from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The idea of a 21st...
View ArticleNew York Post Headline Truly Tit-allating
Tops Headless Body in Topless Bar Imagine New Yorkers disappointment two weeks ago when Osama bin Laden was finally captured and killed. The city that waited nearly 10 years for justice to be done...
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