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Digital Media NewseMarketer: Online Ad Spend To Pass Print in 2012By paulgillin from Newspaper Death Watch. Published on Jan 19, 2012. this release is republished verbatim from eMarketer. More here. US online advertising spending, which grew 23% to $32.03 billion in 2011, is expected to grow an additional 23.3% to $39.5 billion this year-pushing it ahead of total spending on print newspapers and magazines, according to eMarketer. Print advertising spending is expected to fall to $33.8 [...]Fewer Daily Newspapers Deliver DailyBy paulgillin from Newspaper Death Watch. Published on Jan 12, 2012. Two-thirds of Michigan households will be unable to get daily newspaper delivery after the end of this month, notes Alan Mutter in his column in Editor & Publisher. Michigan is only the most dramatic example of a quiet yet dramatic change that is sweeping the U.S. newspaper industry as publishers make the most painful cut [...]Patch Business Model FloundersBy paulgillin from Newspaper Death Watch. Published on Jan 05, 2012. We’ve posted several positive items about the local Patch operation in our community, a one-person news bureau that has become our favorite – and most timely – source of information about local events. So we feel it’s also important to share the news that AOL’s Patch operation, a constellation of more than 800 hyperlocal news sites, looks like [...]Can 1,400 Dailies Die in 5 Years? YesBy paulgillin from Newspaper Death Watch. Published on Dec 20, 2011. The Annenberg School at the University of Southern California created a stir last week with its prediction that only four US daily newspapers will still be in print in five years. “We believe that the only print newspapers that will survive will be at the extremes of the medium – the largest and the smallest,” [...]Do Bloggers – Even Crazy Ones – Deserve First Amendment Protection?By paulgillin from Newspaper Death Watch. Published on Dec 14, 2011. The federal judge has ruled that a woman who describes herself as an “investigative blogger” is not entitled to First Amendment protection for allegedly defamatory statements she made about an Oregon attorney. Crystal Cox (right), a real estate agent and blogger from Eureka, Mont., set up a network of websites, including this one, that criticize the conduct [...]Prognosticating the Future of Mobile AudioBy webmaster@oreillynet.com (Peter Drescher) from O'Reilly Digital Media Center. Published on Nov 28, 2011. Seven years ago, at Project BBQ, I predicted a "convergent technology" device that would be a phone, a camera, an iPod, and a web browser -- two and a half years before the first iPhone was released.New Rules of Real-Time ReportingBy paulgillin from Newspaper Death Watch. Published on Nov 25, 2011. News coverage of a fatal single-car crash that occurred early on Thanksgiving Day in our home town of Framingham, MA spotlights the tradeoffs between traditional news reporting and the less constrained world of the real-time Internet. Look at the distinctions between them and tell us what you think. The first report of the crash came [...]Poynter Botches Romenesko DivorceBy paulgillin from Newspaper Death Watch. Published on Nov 23, 2011. Jim Romenesko tells his side of the story behind his messy and public breakup with Poynter Institute, and he couldn’t be more gracious. Actually, there’d be no point in scolding the rank-amateur behavior that prompted him to resign suddenly earlier this month over allegations of improper sourcing by his Poynter editor, Julie Moos. Visitors to [...]Differing Views of Paywall PotentialBy paulgillin from Newspaper Death Watch. Published on Nov 23, 2011. In places where paywalls are working – and yes, they are working in some places – publishers have abandoned the metaphor of a wall and focused instead on bundled subscriptions that looked a lot like cable television. So writes Poynter’s Rick Edmonds in a summary of a report by the International Newsmedia Marketing Association (INMA) [...]NY Times Gains Confidence in DigitalBy paulgillin from Newspaper Death Watch. Published on Nov 10, 2011. The news just keeps getting better at The New York Times and the Financial Times, as new numbers indicate that paywalls really work if you’re among the most respected news organizations in the world. The FT reported that it has breached the 250,000 subscriber mark, having grown digital subscriptions 30% during the last year. The [...]Four short links: 3 November 2011 - Getting Feedback, Colour Design, Discovering Musicians, Weather Prediction AppBy webmaster@oreillynet.com (Nat Torkington) from O'Reilly Digital Media Center. Published on Nov 04, 2011. Feedback Without Frustration (YouTube) -- Scott Berkun at the HIVE conference talks about how feedback fails, and how to get it successfully. He is so good. Americhrome -- history of the official palette of the United States of America. Discovering Talented Musicians with Musical Analysis (Google Research blgo) -- very clever, they do acoustical analysis and then train up...Four short links: 31 October 2011 - Solitude and Leadership, Data Repository, Copyright History, and Open Source AudioBy webmaster@oreillynet.com (Nat Torkington) from O'Reilly Digital Media Center. Published on Nov 02, 2011. Solitude and Leadership -- an amazing essay on the value of managing one's information diet. Far more than yet another Carr/Morozov "the Internet is making us dumb!!" hate on short-form content, this is an eloquent exposition of the need for long-form thoughts. I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is...New York Times’ Paywall Pays OffBy paulgillin from Newspaper Death Watch. Published on Oct 27, 2011. The New York Times released quarterly earnings that indicated that is paywall is working. The report is the first to give some indication of incremental subscriber growth beyond the initial surge of sign-ups that came when the paywall went up in March. It shows that more than a quarter million people are now paying at [...]You say you want a revolution? It's called post-PC computing - An examination of the post-PC wave and its major players.By webmaster@oreillynet.com (Mark Sigal) from O'Reilly Digital Media Center. Published on Oct 24, 2011. Spurred on by a Googler's rant against his own company and Apple's release of a new phone, a new OS and a new cloud infrastructure, Mark Sigal wonders what the "post-pc" revolution really looks like.Developer Week in Review: Talking to your phone - Getting serious about Siri, Open Office on the rocks, and Google embraces SQL.By webmaster@oreillynet.com (James Turner) from O'Reilly Digital Media Center. Published on Oct 24, 2011. This week, we ask if Apple's Siri has more than novelty value, and decide it does. Open Office needs you (or at least your money) to stay afloat, and Google bends to developer pressure and finally adds SQL support to its cloud computing platform.Four short links: 21 October 2011 - Mozilla's Projects, YouTube Insults, iPhone Ultrasound, RoR IntroBy webmaster@oreillynet.com (Nat Torkington) from O'Reilly Digital Media Center. Published on Oct 24, 2011. What Mozilla is Up To (Luke Wroblewski) -- notes from a talk that Brendan Eich gave at Web 2.0 Summit. The new browser war is between the Web and new walled gardens of native networked apps. Interesting to see the effort Mozilla's putting into native-alike Web apps. YouTube Insult Generator (Adrian Holovaty) -- mines YouTube for insults of a...Fighting the next mobile war - Recent moves by Apple and Google could ignite the external accessories space.By webmaster@oreillynet.com (Alasdair Allan) from O'Reilly Digital Media Center. Published on Sep 29, 2011. While you'll likely interact with your smartphone tomorrow in much the same way you interacted with it today, it's quite possible that your smartphone will interact with the world in a very different way. The next mobile war has already begun.Four short links: 12 September 2011 - History Repeats, Fuller Feeds, Open Source Dev, and The Long Sunset of Business ModelsBy webmaster@oreillynet.com (Nat Torkington) from O'Reilly Digital Media Center. Published on Sep 14, 2011. HP Emulates Next (BoingBoing) -- In mid-1993, a few months after CEO Steve Jobs had shuttered the NeXT factory, and was in the process of switching to an all-software company—a path that led to its later acquisition by Apple—the lights were turned back on in its Fremont, Calif., factory. NeXTWorld's rumor columnist, Lt. Sullivan, reported that the U.S. military...Developer Week in Review: HP fires up the TouchPad production line one more time - HP's unique take on marketing, James Gosling leaves Google, and Apple continues its tavern distribution program.By webmaster@oreillynet.com (James Turner) from O'Reilly Digital Media Center. Published on Sep 01, 2011. The TouchPad's $99 price point proves enticing for consumers and — oddly — HP itself, James Gosling leaves Google, and a possible iPhone 5 leak bears a distinct resemblance to the iPhone 4 leak.ePayments Week: The rise of location-triggered offers - Very local deals, iPhone users ready to spend, and Androids attract crapwareBy webmaster@oreillynet.com (David Sims) from O'Reilly Digital Media Center. Published on Aug 26, 2011. Placecast offers merchants a geofence to corral customers. Also, UK researcher YouGov says iPhone users are more willing to buy with their phones, and telecoms bury Androids with crapware.Ruminations on the legacy of Steve Jobs - PC, mobile, music, film, post-pc: Steve Jobs played an important part in disrupting them all.By webmaster@oreillynet.com (Mark Sigal) from O'Reilly Digital Media Center. Published on Aug 25, 2011. Apple, under Steve Jobs, has always had an unrelenting zeal to bring the consumer — and humanity — back to the center of the ring. Here, Mark Sigal argues that it's this pursuit of humanity that may actually be Jobs' greatest innovation.ePayments Week: Is "0000" your passcode? - Bad passcodes, in-app payments for all, mainstreaming mCommerce.By webmaster@oreillynet.com (David Sims) from O'Reilly Digital Media Center. Published on Jul 21, 2011. In the latest ePayments Week: 10 iPhone passcodes make up 15% of all those in use. Also, Google In-App spreads its wings beyond the Chrome store, Isis signs deals with major credit cards, and execs expect mCommerce to be mainstream in 4 years.Four short links: 7 July 2011 - C64 Presales, Coding Lessons Learned, Feedback Loops, and Continuous IntegrationBy webmaster@oreillynet.com (Nat Torkington) from O'Reilly Digital Media Center. Published on Jul 07, 2011. Commodore 64 PC -- gorgeous retro look with fairly zippy modern internals. (via Rob Passarella) Designing Github for Mac -- a retrospective from the author of the excellent Mac client for github. He talks about what he learned and its origins, design, and development. Remember web development in 2004? When you had to create pixel-perfect comps because every element...Strata Week: Google Plus focuses on data control - The launch of Google+, Yahoo spins off Hadoop, and a book full of iPhone location mapsBy webmaster@oreillynet.com (Audrey Watters) from O'Reilly Digital Media Center. Published on Jul 01, 2011. Google launches Google+, saying "It's your data" and giving users better control over sharing. Yahoo spins out its Hadoop division into a separate company. And a self-published author creates a book out of his iPhone tracking maps.Head First iPhone and iPad Development is out!By webmaster@oreillynet.com (Tracey Pilone) from O'Reilly Digital Media Center. Published on Jul 01, 2011. Head First iPhone and iPad Development is shipping as we speak, which is very exciting! Updating Head First iPhone was a daunting task this time around, there have been lots of developments with iOS development since we printed the first...
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