Damon Kiesow

Damon Kiesow

18
Jan

The Future of Digital is Print-Like: Completeness as a Service (And Other Affordances)

It was the scoff heard ‘round (certain parts of) Twitter last week. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is in the midst
5 min read
31
Jul

Measuring and explaining reader engagement

We need to know the “what” and the “why” to make sense of the data UPDATE: Not claiming
2 min read
26
Jul

Reading About the Business of Media

Audience, Innovation and Solutions I am teaching two (new to me) courses in the fall — one is a senior
7 min read
27
Apr

Threaded tweeting from Keynote for conference talks using #rtweet

I have been using Keynote Tweet, an app maintained by Alan Levin for several years now to send automated tweets
3 min read
10
Apr

Print is not Dead. Not When We Still Have a Lot to Learn From it.

One data point is an anecdote, two is a coincidence, three is a trend. So a reawakening to the value
3 min read
11
Mar

Local ownership or local control

What is the fix for local journalism? Consider Conway’s Law. Here I am, subtweeting AP’s ‘death of
3 min read
17
Feb

The slow news movement

Newspaper website page performance is still poor, have we given up? A speech describing the “State of Newspaper Website
4 min read
29
Jan

Journalism’s Dunbar number

Audience scales, community does not. Go small or go home. News is not the best business model. It is expensive
3 min read
14
Sep

Google has a local news problem

Page views are dollars and Google is robbing your local newspaper to pay a few big, national news outlets. Consider
3 min read
14
Jun

Driving to fly-over country

On Monday we drive to Columbia, Mo. where I am joining the Missouri School of Journalism faculty as a professor
2 min read