If you’ve examined my short essay on the subject of literacy and the future of publishing you will find it both brief and dated (although, arguably, this subject does not evolve rapidly).
I’ve been meaning for some time to recommend the TED site…what richness lies there!
When it comes to the subject of literacy, Dave Eggers, bestselling [...]
New York City, ever self-fixated, is treating the current downturn in the newspaper and magazine industries as a tragedy affecting mainly itself (oh yes, and a few folks in Chicago and LA), forgetting that this recession spreads far beyond its narrow borders.
An article yesterday in Canada’s The Globe & Mail (the rough equivalent of The [...]
Gosh am I slow on the uptake! Here I am in an unseasonably cold Vancouver, BC winter, each night placing kindling under the larger fire logs to ensure they’ll ignite. I just looked for a definition of kindle and find “kindled - ignited: set afire; ‘the ignited paper’; ‘a kindled fire.’”
So is that the story, [...]
I’ve tried to remain as dispassionate as possible regarding the ongoing screeches over the death of the newspaper. I’m not in denial: I know the situation is serious.
When folks like Mr. Zell bankrupt a communications empire, I do not necessarily regard this as a harbinger of things to come.
But when the The Detroit Free Press [...]
Where the …. is the outrage at what Sam Zell has perpetrated in his financial manoeuvrings that have brought The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and 23 television stations into bankruptcy?
The aptly-named “Grave Dancer” has just dug a mass-grave for thousands of innocents who work these enterprises.
The New York Times first report labeled the [...]
Well, I must give kudos to Steve Rubel, “a marketing strategist and blogger …and senior VP in Edelmean’s Me2Revolution practice.” (What would a junior VP do there?) Mr. Rubel, has by my estimate, broken the 100,000 barrier on the number of essentially self-proclaimed experts who have grabbed at some superficial data points and decided that [...]
Once again I’m including this snippet in my “Good News Report.”
According to a December 8th press release from the Pulitzer Prize website, “The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, which honor the work of American newspapers appearing in print, have been expanded to include many text-based newspapers and news organizations that publish only on the Internet, the [...]
Well, let’s start with the pundits’ top projection: ad spending in Brazil will increase by 30% in 2009!
Apparently ZenithOptimedia’s analyst doesn’t read The Economist, which noted on November 6, 2008 that “a few months ago, Brazil’s economy was growing at its fastest pace since the mid-1990s, driven by record commodity prices and record credit growth. [...]
The last full-time job I had was in the late 1980s at a Toronto-based company called McCutcheon Graphics. It’s where I gained the knowledge that allowed me to later set out on my own as a consultant and publishing industry analyst.
The president of the company, John McCutcheon, was a one-of-a-kind businessman (now retired). I learned [...]
