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Over Coffee
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Analysis of ways the shifting media landscape is affecting our lives. Includes the role of print, broadcast, blogs, Internet, radio and other media.
Recent Posts
Holiday gadget sales will offer clues to the future
Smartphone or e-reader? iPhone, Pre, Blackberry or Android? Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook? The answers to those questions will tell us a great deal about the future of news media. The first is the most significant: Will consumers start usi...
Social Media: Fad or new reality?
This video came to my attention last month when University of Alabama instructor Meg Lamme showed it while speaking to the Alabama PRSA chapter. I thought it was worth passing along. Social Media Revolution...
Google “First Click Free” to limit access to paid news site content
Google has rolled out a new “First Click Free” plan under which news publishers may limit how much of their content is accessed through new.google.com. Users who link to a story on a paid site such as the Wall Street Journal will be able ...
LA Times rule on employee social media offers lessons for us all
It’s easy to get riled at the Los Angeles Times’ guidelines for editorial employees posting on social media sites. After all, people who communicate for a living rarely take kindly to being told to watch what they say. But Assistant Manag...
Christian Science Monitor online+weekly strategy is working
The Christian Science Monitor was one of the first – and one of the best – experiments in largely abandoning print in favor of online news distribution. The Boston-based newspaper has always been small but widely respected. Unfortunately,...
Torrent technology: The other “leak” for content
If we ever settle the issue of how media can charge for their content rather than giving it away free, we’ll probably still have another growing way in which copyrighted material being bootlegged to end users: Torrents. If you don’t know ...
