Congratulations to my dear friend and CahillDigital.com client Rob Wolf on winning a Nautilus Book Award for his book “Not a Real Enemy.” I am proud to have been a part of the project and thrilled that this book has earned the respect it deserves. It is an epic tale of how his father, Dr. Ervin Wolf escaped from the Nazis, then twice from the Soviets. A truly harrowing tale and absolutely one you should read. You’ll find links to…
WordPress 3.6 Coming – But I Really Want Workflow
We’ve got another fairly interesting release from WordPress on the way – 3.6. From Mark Jaquith’s post on features: Post Formats: Post Formats now have their own UI, and theme authors have access to templating functions to access the structured data. Twenty Thirteen: We’re shipping this year’s default theme in our first release of the year. Twenty Thirteen is an opinionated, color-rich, blog-centric theme that makes full use of the new Post Formats support. Audio/Video: You can embed audio and video files into…
The 2012 New England Boat Show – Video Edition
This year, we pretty much only shot video, using my Evo 4g with an 8 mp onboard camera. It’s really the first time I’ve edited one of my videos down for release, and I can see a few obvious problems, such as the horizontal vs. vertical issue which has got to be as rookie as you get. Still, I think it came together well enough to share. So without further ado, the 2012 New England Boat Show in 4 minutes……
The One Thing Newspapers Do Well…
Over the past decade, we’ve heard a lot of prognostications on newspaper’s place in the digital world, or perhaps their lack of said place. Inevitably someone comes up with the statement “local newspapers do one thing well: covering local news you can’t get anywhere else.” Over the past year or so, I can think of numerous occasions where I saw something, such as a car accident that tied up Route 146 for hours, which I’d have expected to find under the heading…
You Want Fries With That? Journalism in a Changing World
<This article was written in early September, and I can’t remember why I didn’t publish it then. Must have had more to say, but I can’t remember it now…> A look through my archives here will show you that I used to cover a lot of the downward slide of the newspaper industry. It’s been a long time since I even bothered to write about Journalism and the not-so-slow downward spiral. This morning a few things sparked my interest. I…
How to Report the News
Brilliant…
Death of Newspapers – RIP Editor and Publisher
When I worked in the Atex marketing department, we lived and died by what we could get published in Editor and Publisher. The once vaunted trade journal was the place you wanted to get mentioned, the measure of your having “made it” in the print world. Those days are now gone – from E&P themselves: Editor & Publisher, the bible of the newspaper industry and a journalism institution that traces its origins back to 1884, is ceasing publication. An announcement,…
A Few Coherent Thoughts on Murdoch Blocking Google
Yesterday Rupert Murdoch, Chairman of News Corp, said that he was going to have Google blocked from all New Corp. websites. That means something From EditorandPublisher.com: The Chairman of News Corp. said in an interview with Sky News Australia (reported here in MediaWeek U.K.) that once the newspapers get their paywalls, News Corp. plans to pull its content from the likes of Google and others. Murdoch said: “We’d rather have fewer people come to the Web site and pay. Consumers…
The Death Knell of Paid Posts
Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission issued it’s first change the policy on endorsements in over 30 years. From this point forward, if you accept any form of payment for a post, you need to disclose it. PCWorld.com sums it up: Bottom Line: If you receive gifts, money or any other type of compensation from a product manufacturer or service provider you have to disclose it. For the record, it’s always been my policy that if there’s any possibility of conflict…
Has the Public Library Killed Book Publishers?
As I was in the local public library picking up a little something to read on Saturday, I realized there was an interesting parallel between that and Internet file sharing. What does the library do after all; it loans books for free to people. The same books which both publishers and authors base their entire commercial livelihood. Thus if the picture the music industry draws of the dire future for music if file sharing is allowed continue were really a…