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Journalism and Blogging: Both Sides Now

July 26, 2010

Jolie O’Dell is a journalist who blogs. She cares about journalism, I gather, because of the way she writes about it in posts like How to Tell a journalist from a Blogger and Not all bloggers are journalists and not all journalists are jerks on her own blog. Most of the time, though, she’s a [...]

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With or Without Paper, the News Lives On. I hope.

July 16, 2010

As the newspaper business seems to die slowly, I console myself with the idea that journalism isn’t dying with it. The Huffington Post is booming. The New York Times will bring in about $350 million this year. The new iPad shows us how we can spread the paper in front of us with coffee and [...]

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It's Not the Technology That Makes You Dumb. It's What You Do With Your Time and Attention.

June 9, 2010

Yesterday I posted WSJ vs. NYTimes on How Dumb You Are or Aren’t on Huffington Post, tracking conflicting opinions on whether technology makes us all smarter or dumber. Smarter because it’s a lot of print, creativity, and intellectual work; dumber because of multitasking, distractions, shorter attention spans. I find the debate interesting, but I go [...]

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Google Buzz Explodes the Myth of First Mover Advantage. Again.

February 19, 2010

Somewhere in the 1980s we coined the phrase “first mover advantage.” Right or wrong, I associate it in my mind with the birth of Compaq Computer, in the middle 1980s. Compaq’s original 34-pound sewing-machine-sized computer was dubbed the first compact computer. Luggable was more accurate. And it wasn’t the first, either. This bugs me. “But [...]

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Contradiction and Paradox Are the Spice of Business

January 29, 2010

Measurement, metrics, and accountability are everything. Except when they aren’t. Yes, I contradict myself. No, I don’t mind. Contradiction and paradox are reality in business as in life. As soon as you develop a general rule, you find exceptions. And I have posted here both the magic of metrics, and do we undervalue marketing we [...]

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5 Ways to Break Up a Bad Office Work Day

October 30, 2009

It’s one of those days. Maybe you have technical problems, or a project that isn’t going well, you couldn’t sleep last night, you’ve run into a writer’s block or thinker’s block or city block. Maybe you just lost a client. Or learned about a powerful new competitor. Or maybe it’s simply just a bad day. It [...]

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On Twitter, A/B Analysis, and the Art of Headlines

October 27, 2009

Do you like my headline here, on this post? Can you write a better one? Headlines are critical. I’ve noted that, with some frustration (I’m not so good at headlines) on this blog before, here. Headlines come up today because being in New York last week to  judge the Forbes.com business plan contest gave me [...]

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Gee, You Had to Pay $2, Once, to Get News?

October 8, 2009

Interesting juxtaposition: while much of the world worries about where we get real news, and particularly investigative reporting, iPhone users are up in arms about CNN charging less than $2, once, for an iPhone app that includes ads. Megan Berry posted Do You Get What You Pay For? yesterday on the Huffington Post: CNN’s new [...]

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Maybe Writing Isn't So Obsolete After All

September 10, 2009

Just a few years ago I was mourning the loss of the printed word in our media-hungry and web-hungry society. Even people I really respect, although most of them much younger than I, were starting to show cavalier disregard for the English language. I’d grimace while reading something that mistook then for than, or they’re [...]

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Top 10 Unconventional Recession Indicators

August 11, 2009

I found this on the Huffington Post over the weekend: Top Ten Unconventional Indicators Of The Recession. It’s a slide show, more fun there than here, but in case you’re interested: Home movie rentals: up during recession. Netflix, Redbox and others are way up over last year. From The Atlantic. Urban farming: More people grow [...]

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