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Newsosaur: Newspapers Consider Printless Days

Newsosaur: Newspapers Consider Printless Days

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No time to write today, but I picked this none-to-delectible tidbit up from Alan D. Mutter at Newsosaur while surfing during lunch and had to share: In one of the most startling of the potential initiatives, an amazing number of publishers of all sizes are giving serious consideration to eliminating print editions on certain days of the week, according to private conversations with operators who requested anonymity. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday editions, which typically carry the least amount of advertising, appear…

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PC Magazine To Kill Print Version

PC Magazine To Kill Print Version

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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….

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Newspapers – The Terminal UI Problem

Newspapers – The Terminal UI Problem

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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…

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Kiss a Pig

Kiss a Pig

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  Yes, sometimes it’s in our best interest to do something we don’t really want to do, to literally kiss the pig.  Nothing could better typify this than the great ad debate, that age old fight that occurs in media wherein the editorial staff seeks to maintain their supposed journalistic credibility by running a publication that is utterly advertising free, while the ad staff is running around trying to turn your hallowed publication into The Want Advertiser. When I worked…

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Orange County Register Lays Off 110, “Not Just Profitablity”

Orange County Register Lays Off 110, “Not Just Profitablity”

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Editor and Publisher is reporting that the Orange County Register is laying off 110 by Friday.  We should remember that their parent company a few months ago launched a pilot program to outsource some editing to India, in addition to also sending some pages for pagination overseas as well.  A flat world indeed! OCR Publisher Terry Horne: “This isn’t necessarily just to improve profitability, we have to become a different kind of company,” Horne said. “We will be more focused…

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Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy

Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy

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Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy. Wow – read the post before this first.  Then read this.  Here’s where we’re going, folks.  This is earth shattering. The Christian Science Monitor plans major changes in April 2009 that are expected to make it the first newspaper with a national audience to shift from a daily print format to an online publication that is updated continuously each day. The changes at the Monitor will include enhancing the content on CSMonitor.com, starting…

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New York Times To Staff: Relax, We’re Not Firing You Yet

New York Times To Staff: Relax, We’re Not Firing You Yet

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New York Times To Staff: Relax, We’re Not Firing You Yet Wow – even with out the Silicon Valley Insider’s snark, this is a wild and wooly bit to go out to the troops from the NYT Editor, Bill Keller.  The cattle must have been close to stampede… Check out the Insiders conclusion: But we have a problem with Bill’s characterization of the cuts around the industry as “short-sighted.” Bill’s business reporters would never characterize them that way, and if…

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Media Ethics and Political Affiliations

Media Ethics and Political Affiliations

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Watching the Twitter streams of the newly minted gurus of Social Media, I’m often surprised by how little many of the experts actually know about traditional media. In fact, I’m surprised by how many of us actually have bought the “journalistic ethics” and “media bias” lines we see so often. One of the giants of the Social Media, who I’m not gonna call out here, the other day expressed dismay that the Boston Globe had made an endorsement of Senator…

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Times To Shutter IHT Site – Forbes.com

Times To Shutter IHT Site – Forbes.com

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Times To Shutter IHT Site – Forbes.com. Bad news, indeed.  I loved and regularly used the International Herald Tribune site, especially for the readspeaker implementation that allowed me to download audio versions of their stories for playback on my iPhone or iPod. I really liked the international viewpoint. I think without out a separate site, we’re losing an important voice in news. From my point of view, this is a huge mistake by the Times.  They say it’s about growing…

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Playstation 3 + PlayOn! = Killer Home Video Setup?

Playstation 3 + PlayOn! = Killer Home Video Setup?

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I’ve had a glimpse into the future of home video and it surprisingly comes from a device I already owned, the Sony Playstation 3 (and it works on the XBox 360 as well, but I haven’t tested).  By downloading and installing a small app to my windows machine, I am now able to access online content from Hulu.com, CBS.com, Youtube.com, ESPN.com and soon, CNN.com and Netflix. The software is PlayOn! which is currently available as a 60 day beta trial,…

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