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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...

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Still 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...

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Innovation: 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...

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History 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,...

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News 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,...

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Maybe 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...

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Privacy-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).

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Top 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...

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I 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...

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Another 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...

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Link 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...

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Ups 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...

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Social 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...

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Social 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,...

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Ike 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...

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Coverage 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...

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Link 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...

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Print 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...

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Repeal 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...

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Looking 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...

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New 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...

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Presentation: "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

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Presentations: "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...

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Presentation: "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

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New 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 --...

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UI 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...

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Reprieve 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...

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Local 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...

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Saving 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...

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I 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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