Category Archives: adviceRecently I offered some advice for how small businesses and independent professionals who aren’t very tech-savvy could expand their existing simple brochure sites into sites that will actively help build their business.
…Because the way the internet works today, a static brochure site is like a car up on blocks: You can sit in it, you [...]
More than a year ago, in June 2008, I wrote about how Nokia’s clueless approach to serving the US smartphone market basically handed that market to Apple on a silver platter by the time the 3G iPhone launched.
Last week, GigaOm reported that Nokia is now suing Apple, claiming technology patent infringement. And on Oct. 15 [...]
Mark Cuban: This is your media on crack. Any questions?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife
The apparent crack epidemic sweeping the executive suites of media organizations across the U.S. has claimed another victim.
Mark Cuban loves the news business. Over the years he’s done and said some smart things in media. But on his blog a few [...]
UPDATE 10/31: It’s come to my attention that some applicants have already been rejected from the Knight News Challenge — which may seem odd, because the Nov. 1 midnight application deadline has not yet passed. The Knight News Challenge just clarified, “Applications that were submitted instead of saved for later editing have been reviewed and [...]
A journalist friend recently asked me:
“What’s the real difference between a blog and web site? Can I have a link to my favorite sites, favorite videos, host a forum, etc. on my blog, or am I better off just building a Web site…and maybe having a blog on that. Likely I will probably only do [...]
Last month I spoke to a class of journalism undergrads at the University of Colo., Boulder. These people are just starting out in journalism. Not surprisingly, most of them hope to land more-or-less traditional reporting jobs in more-or-less traditional newsrooms.
I asked these students whether they read blogs. As is common, the vast majority said no. [...]
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