20% Content + 80% Suck = Dead News Sites

Best quote of the week “News sites can no longer capture reader’s attention with 20 percent news, and 80 percent suck.” comes from Erick Schonfeld’s piece in TechCrunch
Schonfeld nails it in his rebuttal of Arnon Mishkin’s article “The Fallacy Of The Link Economy” which contends that Google and others steal content when they aggregate headlines. [...]

Pew. The Internet in 2020 – Hang On

To prep for some over-the-holiday thinking on the future of communications, I downloaded the latest Pew Future of the Internet survey “Future Of The Internet III,” a study released on 12/14/2008 by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, and was pleased with the amount of perspectives they gave me to digest. Predictions are a [...]

Nicest wrong number message ever

OK – This one is a little out of the ordinary for my blog, but it was the best place that I had to share it. I was going through my old voice mail messages the other day and came across a wrong number message. Usually, if someone misdials, the message is a quick hang-up [...]

A Really Nice Podcasting Set-up

Recently, one of my clients asked for a budget proposal for setting up a recording studio specifically for podcasting. As part of their 2009 budget planning process they needed a placeholder amount for equipment, software and hosting. The podcasts could include anything from interviews to readings to announcements/programming information. I modeled a lot of the [...]

Blog begins with a pot of coffee

Since every morning in my house begins with a cup of coffee, I thought it only appropriate that my first post would be a pot of coffee.