Individuate me!
My friend Steve Outing wrote about attending the Global Individuated Newspaper Conference in Denver yesterday.In sum, the conference title muddles the theme: personal news. (Really, isn't "Global...
View ArticleStill saying Yahoo!
Yahoo! followers, please read this from Ken Doctor, then read this from Bob Benz.I'm on the inside of the Newspaper Consortium deal, so I will say no more than this: I agree with the latter more than...
View ArticleInnovation: A game the whole family can (and should) play
Juan Antonio Giner, friend from SND days, says the newspaper industry spends too much time "doing the same and expecting miracles."True. His advice:"The publisher of a $5 billion European newspaper...
View ArticleHistory of Internet biggies, in 1 paragraph
Longtime Scripps compatriot David Johnson, writing at Lost Remote, uses exactly one modest paragraph to describe the entire history of the Internet's largest players:"Once upon a time in bubbleland,...
View ArticleNews media: Be like GM, except ... different
Perhaps local news media organizations should take a cue from General Motors' most radical attempts to change for the future.Scott Karp delivers his characteristic high-grade analysis of that prospect,...
View ArticleMaybe mobile's the next big thing, and always will be
Catching up to two posts from mocoNews.net:Is mobile advertising the next big thing?: In the United States, at least, mobile ads remain hobbled by the persistence of multiple incompatible networks and...
View ArticlePrivacy-minded? Don't count on Craigslist
No one from Craigslist showed up in defense at a hearing where a judge ordered the free-classifieds site to reveal the identity of a seller (via Slashdot).
View ArticleTop 5 reasons executives fail
Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher, writing at GigaOM, describe the top five reasons technology executives fail. The short form:Failure to build a world-class team.Failure to execute.Failure to...
View ArticleI wouldn't say no one innovates like this
Chris O'Brien provides five steps for newsroom innovation in a post at MediaShift Idea Lab. In short:Make it [innovation] a priority.Create a process.Foster new collaboration.Offer incentives.Evaluate...
View ArticleAnother list: Costs of running a CMS
No one told me this was Top 5 List Week. I spotted another useful list in Webland, this time, the five hidden costs of content management systems over at Vitamin.In a nutshell:The cost of trainingThe...
View ArticleLink bucket: Catching up
Links in search of steady work:Vin Crosbie resumed blogging at Digital Deliverance with a vengeance. And yes, I just used "deliverance" and "vengeance" in the same sentence. Anyhoo, Vin started a...
View ArticleUps and downs of online alerts
News alerts that lit up pixels on my screen the past two days got me thinking:CNN.com sent a breaking news email just after 10 p.m. Eastern last night: "Barack Obama tells packed stadium he accepts...
View ArticleSocial network fatigue growing
EMarketer gives us two interesting tidbits regarding adoption of online social networks:Per research from Synovate, 58 percent of adults worldwide do not know what social networks are at all.In the...
View ArticleSocial network fatigue? Maybe not on mobile
So yesterday eMarketer tells us social network users have started to tire of those services. Today we learn, from eMarketer again, that fatigue might not extend to mobile users.Analysts, naturally,...
View ArticleIke coverage: sense of urgency?
Tell me, friends: which of the following home pages, each representing a major news site on the Texas coast, has a more appropriate sense of urgency about the impending landfall of Hurricane Ike?Before...
View ArticleCoverage doesn't equal insight
Juan Antonio Giner calls this "commodity non-journalism": newspaper front page after front page, all carrying the same photo and strikingly similar, unfulfilling headlines trying to cover the scary...
View ArticleLink bucket: Distinctly non-election reading
Links all wishing I had gotten to them sooner:No news is no news: Jeff Jarvis' thoughts following a conference on new business models for news.Gannett pushes for more tech hires, data centers, niche...
View ArticlePrint for older readers, online for rest
Steve Outing cautions that style-over-substance print newspaper redesigns miss the best chance to retain loyal readers from older audiences:"The key ... is to retain older readers by making the thinner...
View ArticleRepeal SOX? Count me in!
Techdirt applauds new efforts to repeal or rework Sarbanes-Oxley, the overwrought post-Enron accountability laws and the mass of new compliance rules and regulations that resulted from them.As someone...
View ArticleLooking positively Radiant
When a former boss and a former corporate colleague (not to mention guitar-playing pal) -- both good friends -- gang up to form a new venture, naturally I pay attention.Not to mention the fact they...
View ArticleNew site: TryCGI.com
Date(s): November, 2008 - June, 2009 Client: Central Georgia Insurance, Inc. Small Initiatives developed a new brand identity and Drupal-based Web site for Central Georgia Insurance, Inc., an...
View ArticlePresentation: "Product Strategy and Development"
Date(s): June, 2007 Client: Inland Press Association Presentation delivered at Inland Press Association seminar in Chicago.AttachmentSize070626_inland.ppt.zip4.36 MB
View ArticlePresentations: "Doing More with Less" and "The Eyes Have It: Online and...
Date(s): May, 2007 Client: Poynter Institute for Media Studies Presentations and discussions led for the Online News Managers seminar, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, St. Petersburg, Fla., May...
View ArticlePresentation: "Online Strategy for Newspaper.coms"
Date(s): March, 2006 Client: Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Presented at the America East newspaper operations conference, Hershey, Pa., March 2006.AttachmentSize060327_nmw_audience.ppt.zip3.64 MB
View ArticleNew site concept: Spend
Date(s): January, 2007 - August, 2007 Client: Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group As an employee of Scripps, Jay Small developed a working model for a retail marketplace site concept called Spend --...
View ArticleUI evaluations: Lumina Foundation for Education
Date(s): October, 2003 - September, 2004 Client: Lumina Foundation for Education Small Initiatives conducted a series of design, user interface and usability evaluations for the Lumina Foundation for...
View ArticleReprieve for analog TV; still no metric system
It appears people who still rely on wire-coiled Pringles cans for TV reception may have a few more months to pick up those Everybody Loves Raymond reruns without a digital decoder.When I worked for a...
View ArticleLocal advertisers didn't just disappear
Greg Sterling reminds us why we all chase advertising dollars from locally focused, small and medium businesses:"We're in a recession; everything is down including local. And local is harder than other...
View ArticleSaving newspapers: Decapitalize printing
The marching pace of sucky economic news for American newspapers and their holding companies quickenedagainyesterday.Papers' suffering began before the current economic crisis. We already occupied the...
View ArticleI will never understand...
... how any company that provides expensive, business-critical software as a service via the Web (aka Web services) can refuse to offer a service level agreement to customers -- or act like no one ever...
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