Some news clips from around the web, show an increasing awareness and openness to changes needed in the publishing industry. Forbes reports on the future of news: “So what does the future hold for the news business? To an increasing degree, blogs and user-generated content will be part of the mix.” Editor & Publisher has… Continue reading Newspapers & Magazines Embracing Change
Category: innovation
Innovation is Not Just a Word in a Powerpoint Slide
The Washington Post has yet another article on the Google offices, and why the company is so envied. Innovation is the key, but at Google, innovation is not just a word in a powerpoint slide: “If you’re not failing enough, you’re not trying hard enough,” said Richard Holden, product management director for Google’s AdWords service,… Continue reading Innovation is Not Just a Word in a Powerpoint Slide
A Newspaper, MySpace and a Blog Walk into a Bar…
I am having a hard time finding some good news for print and “old media” this Tuesday morning. Marketwatch has this uplifting headline: “More misery for newspaper companies seen.” (link via I Want Media) “Ad sales are lackluster at many newspapers, as advertisers look at dropping circulation numbers and assume that they won’t reach as… Continue reading A Newspaper, MySpace and a Blog Walk into a Bar…
Citizen Journalism: What is Working and What Isn’t
Jay Rosen looks at en experimental online newspaper, and talks about what works and what doesn’t: “A web-to-print, highly-interactive, low barrier to entry, read-write, everyone-contributes newspaper is still a daily production headache. Articles, photos, headlines, and ads have to come together. Unedited, the site would have almost no value, although it can have unedited parts… Continue reading Citizen Journalism: What is Working and What Isn’t
Innovation as Journalisms Savior
Jeff Jarvis has a scathing reply to a recent report that details ideas for the transformation of the newspaper industry. From Jeff: “…the real problem the report exposes is cultural inertia, the inability to think in radically new ways and to blow up old assumptions. I feared when the project was announced that they saw… Continue reading Innovation as Journalisms Savior
Top Ten Innovation Mistakes
Ron Garret has a great post about the “classic mistakes that geeks make when trying to raise money for a new business.” I thought these spoke directly to challenges that publishers and media companies have when recreating their business model online. The myths are: A brilliant idea will make you rich. If you build it… Continue reading Top Ten Innovation Mistakes
Trends to Conquer the Online World
Some interesting insights from the recent Future of Web Apps Conference 2006. AU Interactive gives there recap from the conference titled “10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website.” Included on the list are: Make the website easy to use. Then make it easier. Obsess about your copy and how you communicate to your… Continue reading Trends to Conquer the Online World
Cashing in on the Long Tail
David Berlind has a great post about a recent talk that AOL’s CEO John Miller recently gave about online growth and user generated media, among other topics. Excerpts from David’s summary of the talk: “…the bottom line is that if people are spending more of their time online, and the number of hours in the… Continue reading Cashing in on the Long Tail
The Case for Publishing Innovation
Steven Outing asks “Why does the newspaper industry… have so much trouble adapting to the changing of the media environment brought on by the Internet and digital communications technologies?”He polled people within the industry and came up with this conclusion: “A huge part of the problem is that newspaper companies are still being run, mostly,… Continue reading The Case for Publishing Innovation
Online Advertising Shows Publishers Where the Money Is
A series of web advertising news this week. PaidContent reports on the state of internet advertising: a 37% increase year over year. “Pete Petrusky, Director, Entertainment & Media Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers: “With the seventh consecutive quarter of growth behind us we are confident that the Internet will continue to reconcile the imbalances between its share of… Continue reading Online Advertising Shows Publishers Where the Money Is