The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
January 14th, 2009
I just received this alert from Mark Anderson, as part of my subscription to Strategic News Service. —————————— To All SNS Members: Steve jobs took a leave from Apple, announced this afternoon. In his email to employees, he said: “Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me…
October 24th, 2008
I was greatly inspired today to encounter this quotation from YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley at the MIPCOM Conference in Cannes, France on October 15th: “There is no old media. There is no new media. There is one media with one common purpose; to inform, move and inspire the world through information, art and entertainment.” MIPCOM…
September 11th, 2008
By now it’s widely-accepted that few if any publicly-traded companies are as inextricably linked to the fate and fortune of their commander-in-chief as is Apple Computer and its CEO Steve Jobs. It’s almost a fairy-tale story: the early growth of the company, Steve’s adoption of and then ousting by that soft drink man followed by…
August 23rd, 2008
I’m catching up on my old New Yorker magazines. I prefer the print version because the best articles are long, and, I think, far more enjoyable to read in print than on the Web (although The New Yorker has become increasingly generous in sharing most of its content on the Web). Today I read a…
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…