Archive for the ‘New Media’ Category

Hyperlinking Print—and Reality

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Remember virtual reality? No, I don’t either, as it has not quite lived up to the hype that surrounded it almost 15 years ago. But the idea has evolved. My print issue of Scientific American arrived yesterday, and as I was eating my bagel this morning, I read an article ...

MinnPost drops Printed Edition

Monday, July 28th, 2008

MinnPost, the start-up Internet-based nonprofit newspaper (my post about the launch of MinnPost from last August) in Minneapolis has decided to drop its printable edition: Beginning today, we're dropping the MinnPost in Print feature. Readers will continue to be able to print stories from the site. But as more and more ...

US Leading Adoption of Mobile Web

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Related to my post the other day on print's perfect storm is a report from Nielsen that the US is among those leading in the adoption of mobile Internet penetration. Key takeaways from from the report include: The US, UK and Italy are leaders in mobile Internet penetration. 15.6 percent of mobile ...

Making Print Pubs a Vital Part of Web 2.0

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Dan Pacheco, senior manager of digital products at The Bakersfield Californian wrote a blog post over at PBS' MediaShift Idea Lab blog about the newspaper's success in building profitable print media products around its Web products. Despite all of my futuristic ramblings about the virtues of social networks, our niche print ...

Printing Film Festival Now Playing at YouTube

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

YouTube, that Google-owned cultural phenomenon, showed nine million videos in a single month last year.* Within YouTube’s ever-expanding video vortex are, believe it or not, a fair number of clips related to printing. This was noticed by Offset Guy, a participant in a thread on envelope feeding over at PrintPlanet.com. ...

Yahoo to Reject Microsoft Bid

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

An update to this post (Fortune) -- Yahoo plans to reject Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover bid, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing a person familiar with the situation. The source, according to the paper, said Yahoo's board believes Microsoft's offer of $31 per share "massively undervalues" the company and does not ...

Microsoft Offers $45 Billion to Buy Yahoo

Friday, February 1st, 2008

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Microsoft Corp. made an unsolicited $44.6 billion cash and stock bid for Yahoo on Friday, a deal that could shake up the competitive and lucrative market for Internet search. Training their guns clearly on Google. Is it too late? Apparently they made a run last ...

Adobe’s Latest Partnership Brings Ads to PDF Documents

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Adobe and Internet portal Yahoo! have announced an agreement that creates an "Advertising Service For PDF Publishers:" Adobe Systems Incorporated and Yahoo! Inc. today launched Ads for Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo!, an opt-in service that enables online commercial publishers to drive new revenue by including timely, contextual ads next to ...

Should a Magazine Launch First in Print or Online?

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

FOLIO: magazine has an article by Jason Fell on "the Launch Dilemma: Print or Digital First," that looks at the benefits of launching a magazine first in print or starting out online-only. Fell turns to magazine publishers that offer a compelling case for choosing one or the other. One comment that ...

Are the Yellow Pages Still Relevant?

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Joe Wikert vice president and Executive Publisher in the Professional/Trade division of John Wiley & Sons, Inc recently pondered about the death of the Yellow Pages on his Publishing 2020 Blog. Wikert sees the death of the Yellow Pages on the horizon, but thinks its death is slowed by the ...