13 December 2008
06 December 2008
"Worldwide, Employment on a Sharp Decline" - NYTimes.com
This is a very informative and chilling story about unemployment trends here and around the world in both the manufacturing and service sectors.Despite everything that has happened in web-based services, and specifically on the nytimes.com site, there is NOTHING here that in anyway helps a reader/customer who would like to see next month's (if that is when it comes) update of this chart. Why cannot the NYTimes offer either a link to the place where it will appear or at least promise to send me an e-mail if and when the Times chooses to publish an update on this story? Instead, the person reading this story in the paper and/or viewing it here comes up against a deadend. That, increasingly, seems to me to be incredibly short-sighted when it so relatively easily can be fixed with great value delivered to all in the process.
20 November 2008
19 November 2008
The New York Times
I am happy to see The New York Times earning revenue from companies like Apple.
What I am not happy about are the Mac ads that seem to appear with some frequency on the home page of the NYT. they are space-hoggers, resource hoggers, and a very big irritation to me as a customer.
Surely, there has to be a better way for Apple to reach people who are using the NYT site.
What I am not happy about are the Mac ads that seem to appear with some frequency on the home page of the NYT. they are space-hoggers, resource hoggers, and a very big irritation to me as a customer.
Surely, there has to be a better way for Apple to reach people who are using the NYT site.
17 September 2008
11 September 2008
09 September 2008
08 September 2008
06 September 2008
"Times Plans to Combine Sections of the Paper" - NYTimes.com
The incredible shrinking American newspaper.
04 September 2008
03 September 2008
26 August 2008
25 August 2008
23 August 2008
22 August 2008
"Brian Wilson Pacts with Gannett for Web Release" - mediaweek.com
It sure takes newspapers a long time to start doing this sort of thing.....
"Nearly Half of Top 30 Newspaper Sites Decline in 'Time Spent'" - Editor & Publisher
In terms of an informed population, think about these numbers. An average person spent about 30 minutes TOTAL during these MONTHS on newspaper websites. Whether it is up a little, or down a little, the real concern ought to be over just how tiny an amount of time that is.
20 August 2008
16 August 2008
23 June 2008
31 March 2008
"Newspaper Ad Revenue Down 7.9%" - NYTimes.com
The newspaper business in the United States is in a desperate position. There are certain fundamentals needed to run a newspaper as now organized and they are in serious jeopardy of eroding, declining and disappearing.
What is needed is a fresh effort to pick up the critically important pieces of what made newspapers valuable to people -- both the editorial content and the advertising content, plus related services mostly not carrying adverting -- and reassert them in a new context more viable in today's world.
Only one newspaper needs to do this in order to show the way. Which one will it be? Time is slipping by us and the business very fast. Who will step forward and show that a newspaper, conceived in the public service history of the business, determined to make the lives of its customers better, respected, determined and valuable....that such a newspaper can succeed and in digital terms, besignificantly but professional of the people, by the people and very much for the people that newspaper seeks to serve.
Who will it be? Pretty soon, there will be no time for volunteers.
What is needed is a fresh effort to pick up the critically important pieces of what made newspapers valuable to people -- both the editorial content and the advertising content, plus related services mostly not carrying adverting -- and reassert them in a new context more viable in today's world.
Only one newspaper needs to do this in order to show the way. Which one will it be? Time is slipping by us and the business very fast. Who will step forward and show that a newspaper, conceived in the public service history of the business, determined to make the lives of its customers better, respected, determined and valuable....that such a newspaper can succeed and in digital terms, besignificantly but professional of the people, by the people and very much for the people that newspaper seeks to serve.
Who will it be? Pretty soon, there will be no time for volunteers.
26 March 2008
"The Buzz on the Bus: Pinched, Press Steps Off" - New York Times
This is discouraging, but really only if newspapers do not act creatively and professionally to deal with the challenge. There are ways to do quality for less.
21 March 2008
"Online Ad Sales Network For Newspapers Grows" - WSJ.com
As big a supporter of newspapers as I remain, this wreaks of being too little far too late. Something much more fundamental has to change before newspapers can assert a leadership role. This is not much more than applying oil to the billing and ad placement machine; it does not change the machine or, more, importantly, replace it with a much more sophisticated model that ties potential viewers of such advertising to the needs and interests of advertisers.
14 March 2008
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