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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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06
Apr

If your mother tells you she doubled her time spent on page, check it out.

The five degrees of separation between a “fact” and a FACT. This is part II of a totally random
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20
Mar

Getting Mac EndNote to open .enw files by default

How is that for a niche SEO headline? When I migrated to a new MacBook Air – for some reason EndNote
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