May 10, 2024
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Important Details: It’s become a staple of American movies and TV shows. Something big happens, usually involving mayhem. We then see the story unfold through the eyes of several characters, each with his or her own viewpoint; each seeming as valid as the others and all raising ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Geno’s or Pat’s? Sylvester Stallone or Tom Hanks? Web-centric or Philly-centric? The home of cheesesteak, the Phillies, and Ben Franklin may make American history again. McClatchy announced last week that its auction of Philadelphia’s two daily ...
Read MoreImportant Details: What We’re Seeing: New York media met Silicon Valley edge thinking at last week’s SIIA West Coast Content Forum, held in San Francisco. One technology panel gave publishers much to think about. As publishers struggle with their own content management systems, ...
Read MoreImportant Details: A newspaper company put up a different kind of for-sale sign this week. On Monday, Tribune Inc. announced that it is buying ForSaleByOwner.com. The for-sale-by-owner acronym – FSBO – has been a four-letter word, spat out in disgust by realtors and those ...
Read MoreImportant Details: It’s been a busy week in the seek-and-find business. Moves by Yahoo!, Gannett, and legendary entrepreneur Bill Gross all show how hot search models are and remind us that the Web world, seemingly stable day-to-day, is still shaking. Yahoo!’s New Home Page Yahoo! ...
Read MoreImportant Details: What We’re Seeing: Where’s Dr. Seuss when we need him? At SIIA’s San Francisco Content Forum on Tuesday, Chris Anderson talked about his industry-shaking notion of “the long tail.” It turns out, though, that the creature he describes is not some beast with a long, ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Tom Friedman’s tome notwithstanding, our Web world just keeps getting more dimensional. TripAdvisor is a site worth watching by news and travel publishers. It has grown in popularity as travelers find tips on good condos in Hawaii, river outfitters on the Colorado, ...
Read MoreImportant Details: For 25 years, newspaper circulation has been like a rollercoaster slowly ratcheting down a hill, each yearly click marking a 1 percent – more or less – decline. Now the incline appears to be steepening, with today’s release of the industry’s ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Wasn’t it inevitable? Google Daylight Time. I mean Google Calendar. The company whose products page is a modern-day tapestry of our hyperkinetic 21st century lives now wants to become our clock and timer as well. Google Calendar is a kind of product, at least, ...
Read MoreImportant Details: It’s a dizzying alphabet, well-represented in the shifting names of the San Francisco Giants’ ballpark (the House that Barry Built?). Christened Pac Bell Park at its 2000 opening, it then became SBC Park, and this year AT&T Park, all within six years. Of ...
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