Archive for the ‘New Media’ Category

Competition Between Print and Online-only Magazines

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Scott Karp has an article at Folio examining the ability of print magazine publishers to compete with online-only publishers. Scott points out a few online magazines that are succeeding and why an online publishing model has its advantages over traditional print media. He ends with some solid advice for print-centric publisher: So ...

Dvorak on Murdoch and New Media

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

He gets it. He really gets it. That's John Dvorak's claim over at pcmag.com. But can Rupert save newspapers?: He may actually see the trends in the newspaper business and be the only one capable of correcting the spiral dive now being experienced by many dailies. At least ...

“Mr. Magazine” Believes We’ll Always Crave Ink on Paper

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Magazines may not be following the way of dinosaurs and passenger pigeons, at least according to Mark Glaser, host of PBS' MediaShift. Glaser "digs deeper" in an interview with Samir Husni, chair of the University of Mississippi's Department of Journalism, known as Mr. Magazine. Read the entire interview here - ...

Transcontinental’s Desjardins: The Myth of an Endangered Industry

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

You may have noticed this at WTT earlier in the week: Transcontinental CEO addresses the Web Offset Association I wanted to point you to the full text of the speech as well, and point specifically to this part: a new technology does not make the previous ones disappear: radio did not eliminate newspapers, ...

Record Number of Visitors to Newspaper Web Sites in First Quarter

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

(via MediaPost) According to custom analysis by Nielsen//NetRatings for the Newspaper Association of America, more than 59 million people (37.6 percent of all active Internet users) visited newspaper Web sites during the first quarter of 2007, a record number that represents a 5.3 percent increase over the same period a ...

Just Print Yourself a New … Lamp, Chair, Pen, etc.

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

The April 1 issue of The New York Times Magazine was all agog at a new printing process - rapid prototyping; we call it 3D printing... Take a look at the future now, we don't have to wait! This is digital printing at its best! Even more fun is a site ...

InfoWorld to print no more, To focus online

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

International Data Group, the owner of InfoWorld says the magazine's last print edition is April 2, 2007. Below is edited statements from the press release issued by IDG. "Unique visitor traffic at infoworld.com has increased 85 percent (February 2006 compared to February 2007), reflecting audience migration online, as well as ...

IAB in Print Gets Blog Reactions

Monday, February 26th, 2007

News of The Interactive Advertising Bureau launching a printed supplement with AdWeek called "MIXX" Magazine got predicted reaction among bloggers in the printing and publishing industries and beyond. Both Adam of Printmode and Dr. Joe Webb were not surprised. Neither was Rex Hammock, who had the best analogy I ...

Is The Machine Us/ing US?

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Today on OnDemandJournal, Noel Ward has an article about a YouTube video that has been making the rounds. I've seen it everywhere from political sites to gardening blogs. Noel says: There are flashes and snippets of ideas and concepts, and running through it all is the core message that ...

“Always On” Economy More Benefit than Drawback

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

A recent Lexmark commissioned survey conducted by Ipsos of American knowledge workers says that "always on" technology such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), cell phones and e-mail that make them reachable 24/7 are more of a benefit than a drawback. That's according to a national telephone survey of knowledge workers -- ...