The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
April 20th, 2009
Like most of my friends and family, I was dimly aware of Susan Boyle last week from stories I was ignoring in various media. Then while reading the Saturday New York Times I stumbled upon “Unlikely Singer Is YouTube Sensation,” and finally got a handle on what all the fuss was about. I watched the…
February 8th, 2009
I had missed this story until The Economist brought it to my attention. comScore, which maintains a “massive proprietary database that provide(s) a continuous, real-time measurement of the myriad ways in which the Internet is used and the wide variety of activities that are occurring online,” reported on January 23rd that China had surpassed the…
January 2nd, 2009
How did I miss this one from December 23rd? Mea maxima culpa! (From the Latin: “My most grievous fault.”) The source is most reputable: The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The news about the news continues its discouraging trend. This one ranks as a milestone. According to the press release: “The…
December 12th, 2008
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…
June 15th, 2008
The title of this blog entry is also the title of a piece in today’s New York Times. The story is most simply stated by quoting from part of the second paragraph: “three of the country’s largest Internet service providers are threatening to clamp down on their most active subscribers by placing monthly limits on…