Christian Science Monitor to Publish Online Only Wow. (tags: newspapers web online)
Including an email marketing panel that I worked on putting together. It includes two great panelists from outside the newspaper industry (which is where I think the industry needs to be looking if it wants to break new ground): Travis York, President at Griffin York & Krause, responsible for the strategic direction of the agency, client [...]
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Trick-or-treating with the kids on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, Oct. 26, 2008. If our kids were older, maybe it would be a bummer to have trick-or-treat on a different day than Halloween, and to have it in the daytime, but our kids are all young enough so that the decorations (some professional haunted house quality [...]
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The LG Dare takes great video, but I had to poke around quite a bit and try a bunch of different offerings to find a good tool for encoding it to work with any of the simple video editing programs I have. Found this program, SUPER © by eRightSoft referenced on the Dare forums here. Works well for batch conversion, [...]
USPS: We care (?) Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden The latest issue of Guitar World arrived today… shredded (ha!). The note on the bag holding torn up mag (no way to decipher the sheet music in there!) and shattered instructional DVD: we care. But then no evidence in the following three graphs of [...]
Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 While there are still plenty of opportunities for newspapers to benefit from staff and audience written blogs, some of the ideashere may help to provoke good discussions while shaping a blogging strategy… and help to suggest alternatives to blogs for certain projects or staffers. (tags: twitter trends [...]
Google AdWords: Display Ads Google's new display ad builder for AdWords is pretty slick. Self service display tools seem to be hitting a new threshhold. (tags: google advertising display banner)
Jacqui Cheng at ars technica takes a look at how tech is shoring up the nuclear family. "The typical American family is also the most networked, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project." Married-with-children households are more likely than others to have cell phones, computers, and a broadband connection. Rather than [...]
Best foliage in years Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden Dropping David off at school and was reminded of the amazing foliage this year; sadly overshadowed by the tumult of these times.
Verizon Wireless has floated the idea of charging media companies three cents per message that they send to Verizon Wireless subscribers – on top of the message reception costs subscribers are already paying. This would certainly put a crimp in the most straightforward plans to monetize text messaging, and to use it for general marketing where [...]
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