At times blogging seems so… yesterday (Not unlike those photographs of your high school prom when you were wearing a baby-blue tuxedo, a navy-blue cumber bun and a bow-tie the size of an airplane propeller). Wasn’t it yesterday that Technorati was tracking more than 133 million blogs – with thousands literally being created daily? Now [...]
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Tag Archives: New York Times
The New York Times Big Gamble: Paywalls (Again)
March 17, 2011
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Starting on March 28, the New York Times will dive headfirst – yet again – into digital subscriptions and… take a deep breath… paywalls. Or should I say the dreaded and much maligned paywalls. The last time the New York Times tried this they dove into the shallow end of the pool and nearly broke [...]
Read more Has Blogging Entered its Twilight?
February 22, 2011
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The answer is no, absolutely not. But I’ll get back to that in a moment. The blogging is dead meme has been around for a few years (I first read about blogging’s demise at ReadWriteWeb in 2007). So it isn’t a surprise that the New York Times recently tackled the issue and declared: “Blogs were [...]
Read moreNews Moves Faster Than We Do
February 8, 2011
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Even The Flash has trouble keeping up the news. You can’t keep up with the news anymore. But don’t be alarmed because nobody else can either. Once upon a time news got delivered on your doorstep in a static format. It was there for you to read – at your leisure – within the next [...]
Read more Blogging is Now Part of Journalism
February 7, 2011
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The news this morning that the Huffington Post has been sold to AOL for $315 million begs the question: Is there any difference between a news blog and an online news publication? I’d argue that few people can tell the difference anymore. In fact, the term “blog” may have run its course (with the exception [...]
Read more Traditional Media Becoming Obsolete, Not the Media Itself
December 20, 2010
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Here are the facts: Newspapers circulation numbers are falling like a rock. The New York Times daily circulation in 1990 was 1.1 million and is now less than 900,000. The Los Angeles Times circulation dropped from 1.25 million in 1990 to less than 600,000 The big three TV networks accounted for more than 45% of [...]
Read moreWhy Is It So Hard to Give Customers Content They Want?
November 29, 2010
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Here’s a piece of advice I often unwrap and present to clients: “We live in a multimedia, interactive online world – whether you like it or not. People want to consume content on their terms and in the formats they prefer: text, video, audio, images, charts, etc… So be a good communicator and give them [...]
Read moreYou Can’t Measure Influence
October 13, 2010
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For a very good reason: We’re all human beings. And because of that we’re all different. We don’t process information in the same ways. We approach ideas and concepts from unique perspectives. As a result, we are all influenced differently. That’s why articles or studies that claim to reveal “The 10 Most Influential [Insert Blogger/Tweeter/Vlogger/Social [...]
Read moreAvoiding Follower Obsession
September 28, 2010
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“I will have you, yes I will have you I will find a way and I will have you Like a butterfly, a wild butterfly I will collect you and capture you.” – From “Obsession” by Animotion All right maybe it isn’t that bad. But many people – and brands – obsess over the number [...]
Read more Why I Still Read Books
September 24, 2010
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I keep a journal of my reading and have done so for nearly nine years. I jot down the date, the title, author, the type of work (fiction, non-fiction, poetry), date it was published and a brief summary. For the first six years of this project, I averaged about 45 books a year. The last [...]
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