The Power of Us

U.S. political web sites rising. NY Times Co. – not so much

Posted by on Oct 23, 2008 in Brands, Business, Power & Policy, Social Media | 1 comment

Noted: Record traffic for U.S. political web sites, including Huffington Post, Politico, Drudge and Real Clear Politics. NY Times Co....

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What newspapers can learn from baseball

Posted by on Oct 2, 2008 in Brands, Journalism | 0 comments

Photos: Creative Commons via Flickr from Bobster1985, lisatozzi, jeffpearce and Annie Mole. The practice of professional journalism is...

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Creative? Or crossing the line?

Posted by on Sep 18, 2008 in Brands, Creativity, Design, Innovation, Journalism | 1 comment

PC pulls an advertisement in the guise of an editorial, called “Stop Switching to Mac”, from the sacrosanct news wall on...

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What went wrong keeps going wrong for newspapers

Posted by on Aug 22, 2008 in Brands, Journalism | 2 comments

Alan Mutter, an astute analyst who formerly served as editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, now puts the combined value of ten major news...

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Memo to ESPN: Take out the trash in baseball telecasts

Posted by on Aug 5, 2008 in Brands | 0 comments

To: ESPN broadcasters and producers: So I’m watching bonus coverage of the Yankees-Rangers game. There’s all this annoying stuff on...

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Failure is an option

Posted by on Aug 4, 2008 in Brands | 1 comment

Sometimes Internet startups have a business model. Sometimes they don’t – and the story typically boils down to...

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Social networking’s bubble grows. How to capitalize.

Posted by on Aug 4, 2008 in Brands | 0 comments

Social networking is the fastest-growing activity on the user-centric Internet. The idea is that most anyone can join a large, loosely...

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