by David | Feb 20, 2016 | Digital Migration, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers
Ken Doctor at Neiman’s “Newsonomics” points out that the “self-asphyxiation” cycle is nearing endgame I cross-posted a response to this on Facebook, so if you’ve already seen it there from me, my apologies. But I’ve been...
by David | Feb 2, 2016 | Digital Migration, New Marketing, Sip With Caution
Industry-leader social management tool Hootsuite “deprecates” Klout – but who’s next? Klout, you were mean to us and made us like it. You made us feel inadequate, and spend far too many hours indulging in unnatural behaviors to please your...
by David | May 29, 2015 | Design, Digital Migration
Shorter: Mobile is still undervalued. Hackers suck. China is about over; India is next. Professional content producers still doomed. But good design still matters. Every year, Mary Meeker produces a massive presentation that quickly makes the rounds on Teh Interwebz...
by David | May 18, 2015 | Digital Migration, journalism
The kids are all right. Despite my best efforts… On Friday, I had five cohorts of students graduate from Annenberg-USC. Three graduate student cohorts (broken down into two cohorts that attended USC for two years, and one in the brand-new one-year accelerated...
by David | Apr 8, 2015 | advertising, Digital Migration
The IAB has published their view. I have my own opinion. One of the biggest problems with “native advertising” is that it is such a new, made-up term of digital art, that it’s taken on an Alice in Wonderland-esque quality, in which the phrase means...
by David | Oct 21, 2014 | Digital Migration
Is it no longer identity theft when law enforcement does it?OK, on one level, this is kinda clever, and analogous to those scams where cops send out invites to a special event to lure in crooks. Usually, it’s under the guise of having won free tickets, or a...
