PC Magazine announced last week that their January issue would be the last issue they actually print, from then on, they’re a web-only publication. From The New York Times: It is the latest of several magazine publishers to drop a print edition, as advertising plummets and the cost of printing a paper version rises. “The viability for us to continue to publish in print just isn’t there anymore,” Jason Young, chief executive of Ziff Davis, said in an interview….
It’s Thanksgiving Day in the US, the day when we stop to give thanks for all the wonderful things that have happened to us in the past year. This year I’m thankful: For family, friends, and you, my readers. For having a great job with NameMedia, where I look forward to working every day. A place where there are more years of social media and online community experience than exist at any other 10 companies combined. That my friends and…
The Dour Marketer | Churbuck.com. David nails it. Marketing is changing fast, and it’s all about the ROI. With those markets off 40% from their highs in the fall of 2007, marketers are also feeling very dour right now, and despite feeble exhortations that now is the time to double down and crush the competition, all signs are in place for a major flattening and decline in global marketing programs from advertising to PR. It is an article of faith…
I’m noticing a lot of sites are now using their top level domain as their site address, such as mysite.com instead of www.mysite.com. That can cause major issues for you later, so you might want to think twice about it. Domain names are rather useful things. There’s a lot that can be done behind the covers, by manipulating subdomains and such. This is one of the keys to most Content Delivery Networks, such as the Akamai DSA service that…
One of the big complaints that the anti-Wordpress chorus croons is that the vaunted blogging platform doesn’t scale. Certainly we’ve all seen sites brought low by the “Slashdot Effect” or the “Digg Effect” but my experience tells me that WordPress is getting a bad rap for poor server setup, poor plugin choice, etc. How do I know? Well, one of the sites I work with last week experienced the “China Syndrome” or potentially “The Great Fire Hose”. The site, TheTruthAboutCars.com…
I posted on Dadomatic.com about my weekends cooking endeavors with my daughters, calling the story “Cooking Up a Memory“. Basically, the story is about cooking chicken noodle soup with my daughters. But indeed, as with so many things, its really about so much more… …Instead, I got the girls together and asked them where chicken noodle soup comes from, and out came the invevitable answers: “The store…no wait, Campbells.” offered the older one. The younger one laughs, “A can.” …
I am not a fan of techno. However, this video is cool, so let’s think of it as Friday Video…Directed by Ludovic Houplan & Hervé de Crécy. Remind me won the 2002 MTV Europe Music Award for best music video.
Just when I thought there was a Social Media Review site for everything, Lenovo’s turned the hose back on Social Media itself and launched Discover Social Media – a site with social media reviews of social media sites. The site has been built under the umbrella of the LenovoSocial.com which offers a range of social offerings, some Lenovo specific such as the Lenovo Blogs and Lenovo Forums, and others such as the lenovoVideoLibrary and lenovoPhotoLibrary which are more general in…
Yesterday morning I sat at the counter at Puffins Restraurant in Millbury having a wonderful plate of Eggs Latin, and as I struggled to read The Worcester Telegram while eating, I realized the problem with newspapers in print: the User Interface is pathetic. Here are just a few of the UI problems: The newsprint is too thin – trying to fold the paper into something you can handle with one hand is virtually impossible. Ink stained fingers – it used…
Better known as Jimi Hendrix’s drummer. Mitch Mitchell passed away this week in Portland Oregon yesterday after completing the “Experience Jimi Hendrix” tour. RIP Mitch…thanks for the music. This video is from the legendary Isle of Wight Festival.