May 7, 2024
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Important 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 ...
Important 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 ...
Important 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 ...
Important 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. ...
Important 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 ...
Important Details: They were the prizes Dean Singleton had sought from the beginning. Once word got out in November that Knight Ridder would accede to the wishes of its three largest shareholders and sell the company, it was clear that ...
Important Details: BlogBurst came out of stealth mode this week, further blurring the boundaries of content creation and syndication. BlogBurst is Pluck’s new product, an offering that sits aside two older Pluck initiatives, first an ...
Important Details: Pardon news publishers if they don’t really want to stop by the mall or visit the local auto row. Both offer painful reminders that their revenues continue to struggle, as profit numbers released this week made ...
Important Details: Try this metaphor: Pony Express delivery. What does it evoke for you? Speedy transfer of goods? Ability to deliver no matter what obstacles stand in the way? A service that lasted barely 16 months? Pony Express is ...
What We’re Seeing: In the wake of McClatchy’s purchase of Knight Ridder, the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) held its annual conference in Chicago this week. Taking place concurrently was NEXPO, its annual tech trade ...
