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May 16th, 2010

Newspaper Asks Readers to Stop Buying Print Edition

It’s Sunday, so a good day to keep blog entries light and fun. I should save serious for weekdays. I bought the June 2010 issue of ConsumerReports the other day. The inside back cover has a regular offering called Selling It: Goofs, Glitches, Gotchas featuring humorous reader-submitted illustrations of products and promotions that perhaps never…

May 25th, 2009

The Next Media Company

The title of this blog is the same as one appearing today on Chris Brogan’s thoughtful blog. After a brief intro he offers the following: The Next Media Company Manifesto Here’s what I believe might (emphasis mine) need to be true about the next media company: Stories are points in time, but won’t end at…

April 16th, 2009

The Publishing Crisis Moves Down the Food Chain

A front page story on most North American newspapers (and certainly all Canadian ones) is that AbitibiBowater, the world’s biggest newsprint producer (40% marketshare) has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States and plans to file for similar protection in Montreal on Friday. According to the report in the (Toronto) Globe & Mail, “U.S….