Last year was a good one to remember; a year filled with challenges and disappointments, serious milestone moments for family, for the kids, Kris and me, my siblings, my friends, my colleagues, the world. But I wonder, as 2010 already pours itself over me like torrent (have ten days of the new year passed already?), [...]

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Swedish media company the Bonnier Group has created this video showing a conceptual prototype for displaying a visually rich, digitally interactive magazine presentation on a tablet device.  The  video really captures the imagination (watch it full screen!) and conceptualizes something well  beyond a simple graft of old media formats onto new technology (such as a [...]

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As traditional media companies experiment toward a Web business model that would support the traditional high-end journalism they produce, it’s interesting to eyeball two timely examples of companies that think content is a good bet for making money on the Web. One is AOL. The other is Ashton Kutcher’s Katalyst. Common threads? [...]

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Ernesto on November 21st, 2009

There was so much great stuff search engine optimization material at the New England New Media Association SEO Bootcamp last Thursday that offering five takeaways from the meeting seems parsimonious, but hey, come to the next one! If you knew nothing about SEO, it would have been a great starting place, and if you had [...]

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Ernesto on November 14th, 2009

New Hampshire  newspaper editors and publishers met at UNH in Durham the other night to discuss challenges faced by the industry.  It was an opportunity for a discussion about the newspaper business that, as the organizer and The Telegraph’s publisher, Terry Williams, pointed out, looked beyond the problems faced by the major, debt-laden, metro papers [...]

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The Office recently riffed on pay-walls on newspaper Web sites, in particular the Wall Street Journal.  There’s probably not a newspaper Web site in the country right now not trying to figure out what the right balance between continuing to increase traffic and support growing ad inventory, while at the same time protecting print subscriptions, [...]

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Borrell Assoc. has a new blog post on how Castello (http://ccin.com) is making money of city-dotcom and topic-dotcom sites. According to Borrell, “One of their sites makes more money than any locally owned media site in that market. They do it without a lick of broacast or print cross-promotion, a base of advertisers from which [...]

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Having been both on the client side of a vendor client relationship, and on the vendor (service provider) side of that situation, I can’t help but laugh at this video in which client pricing negotiations with vendors are made to seem ridiculous (and sometimes they are) when put in the context of other types of [...]

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Twitter recently released a Twitter 101 site aimed at instructing business people on using the tool for marketing. It’s an interesting overview with plenty of basics for those who haven’t had the opportunity to experiment much with Twitter or who still aren’t sure what it is. (And I know plenty of folks out there [...]

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