07 October 2014

Facebook's location-based ads can pitch you on the store you just walked by | PCWorld

Newspapers, eat your hearts out.

Deadline

Could be a great story.

06 October 2014

Postmedia to Buy Sun Media for $275 Million - NYTimes.com

The business continues to spin.

Facebook to Ease Policies on Using Real Names for Accounts - NYTimes.com

While this is freaky, the bigger problem is changing the policy. We really become a community of idiots without our names.

Issuu Clip -- The Easiest Way to Share What You Love | Issuu.

Interesting.

03 October 2014

Ello Co-founder: No Ads, Ever | Here & Now

On verra.

At Crossroads, CNN Seeks to Reassert Itself - NYTimes.com

I sense only the tiniest amount of progress while much of what they do is caught between sensation and superficiality.

02 October 2014

A real problem

Every time I get one of these subscribe promotions from almost any newspaper, it is obvious that they were created by people who have only one role in life - to sell newspaper subscriptions - and not by someone who really wants to form a bond with prospective subscribers. How do I know this? What's missing below? The answer is even a single word telling the potential customer the value she/he would receive by subscribing. This is NOT a matter of a price barrier; it is a creative barrier of the newspaper's own making.

The IRL Social Clubs - NYTimes.com

Newspapers ought to be leading "IRL" events!

01 October 2014

A Media Blast From the Past | Here & Now

I still think the wikinewspaper idea still has merit - so that newspaper stories continue to evolve and do not die upon "publication".

As PayPal Spins Off, Apple Pay Signals New Era at Cash Register - NYTimes.com

Newspapers ought to have been at the heart of this from the beginning.

Piers Morgan Will Write for The Daily Mail - NYTimes.com

Interesting newspaper evolution on several fronts.

News Corp. to Buy Move, a Real Estate Listings Site - NYTimes.com

Seems too late.

New York Times Plans Cutbacks in Newsroom Staff - NYTimes.com

Tougher and tougher times.

Ello, le petit réseau social qui fait la leçon à Facebook

Newspapers still have not figured out how to cope with Facebook and likely not with this.

As PayPal Spins Off, Apple Pay Signals New Era at Cash Register - NYTimes.com

Newspapers never figured out a way to be a part of this.