Text and Video are The Same Thing Now
not so complicated… This morning, Omtalk.com published a fascinating article entitled “How & Why Facebook video can overtake Youtube”. And they had the stats to back it up: Facebook only started getting serious about video a year ago, but...
Read moreCan Newspapers Survive? Here’s A Plan….
This terrifying graphic came from a Nieman Report on the state of the news business, released last week. As you can see above, newspapers are now circling the drain. And all the theoretical discussions about ‘digital revenue’ are not...
Read moreHow Journalists Can Make Money
Last week, I wrote a blog for the Huffington Post entitled “The Job of Journalism is Finished” It got a lot of traction – and a lot of arguments. But at the end of the day, anyone who works...
Read moreA World Without Newspapers
All the news that’s fit to print…. I am old. I am so old that I still like to start each morning with a printed, paper newspaper at breakfast. I could read the paper online, on my iPad or...
Read moreDo You Really Wanna Be A Geek All Of Your Life????
Career prep for the non-math students amongst us… OK When I was in school, there were two kinds of people: math and non-math. The math people walked around with slide rules in their pockets (yes, I am that old),...
Read moreThe Best and Worst Jobs for 2014
Forbes Magazine recently posted a list of the Ten Best and Worst Jobsfor 2014. Newspaper Journalist came in 2nd. Second worst job you can have. Lumberjack was first. Of course, as a lumberjack you get to spend a lot of...
Read moreCould iPhones End Wars?
The town of Portree, on the Isle of Skye in Scotland has a population of 2,149. At the center of the town is a cenotaph, a memorial dedicated to those who have died in the First World War....
Read moreStorytelling Comes To Commercials – And Not Too Expensive!
The Summer Movie Season was nothing short of a disaster – a commercial disaster and a creative disaster. Earlier this year, Steven Spielberg predicted the collapse of the megabudget movie system. Bombs like The Lone Ranger or Pacific Rim...
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Is Advertising Finished?
Does anyone know what this is? The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism recently revealed that as newspapers transit from print to online digital, ad revenues for online, which it was once hoped would come to supplant ad revenues...
Read moreTurn 30 Rock into Condos? Why Not?
When I look out my living room window, this is what I see. The GE Building. Which used to be the NBC Building Which used to be the RCA Building Maybe soon it will be the Comcast Building. It’s...
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