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Where is the news going to come from?
Image by inju via Flickr As the media industry consolidates and more and more people are simply linking to news – you might start to wonder where all the news is going to come from. There’s a great...
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The deal with Google buying reCaptcha
Image by Fenng(dbanotes) via Flickr I had no idea why Google would buy a company, reCaptcha, that does captchas. For those of you who don’t know, captchas are the little squiggly text that people...
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Wikipedia Going Away
The value of Wikipedia is the contributors to it. As sites become easier and easier to contribute to, wikipedia remains the nerdiest, most cryptic, most confusing site to add content to. I have a...
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My Moments of 2009
2009 was a fun year. I traveled to 42 cities, 4 countries and logged over 100k miles. I also found time to stay at home and do stuff. Looking back on the year, some things really stand out. For...
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The Deck: A Fascinating Ad Platform
There’s an intersting advertising network that i learned about at SXSW this week called The Deck. They do one thing differently and it substantially impacts everything else: they get rid of the CPM....
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Online Journalism Conf: Traditionalists vs. Pioneers
I went to the International Symposium on Online Journalism this past Friday and Saturday. There were a variety of speakers at this conference. I noticed that there were three types of participants....
View ArticleFred’s 10 Golden Web-App Rules
This past weekend i watched this video from Fred Wilson about what are the 10 Golden Principles of a Web application. Fred has been an investor for over 20 years and is on the board of some of this...
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My Own Personal Newspaper
I’ve long thought about how the newspaper industry is changing (especially because my new startup is targeted towards the publishing industry) and this past week i found something really amazing...
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Learnings from Gawker
Nick Denton who has been on the forefront of blogging and online publishing for the past decade is shaking things up again. He’s redesigning the Gawker websites (Gizmodo, Deadspin, Gawker, Defamer,...
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Quora is About to Explode
I’ve seen it before. It happened with Twitter and with MySpace. Sometimes there’s a confluence of media attention and star power that makes a website just explode – and that is about to happen to...
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Long-Form Content is Coming Back
I’ve noticed over the past year or so that the number of friends of mine who blog is decreasing. I’m seeing less posts. To me this is because Twitter and Facebook have taken all their thoughts. The...
View ArticleNew Startup Ongo Raises $12 MM and Starts Sprinting Off a Cliff
The new company Ongo announced today that it’s raised $12 million from a handful of big media companies (Washington Post, NY Times, and Gannett who publishes USA Today). The service they are offering...
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The Machines are Coming! (at least in publishing)
Last week I spoke at the NYC Hacks/Hackers conference which was a pretty great gettogether of journalists and technology folks. I spoke about all the editorial tools that Kapost provides and got a...
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Speaking my Blog Post
I get tired of remembering and also tired of writing. My new desire is to just speak stuff and have it appear. Twitter was easier than blogging but talking is even easier than that. Henry James...
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I Still Believe in Patch
AOL released their earnings last week and the market did a collective vomit-in-their-mouth over the results and their market cap dropped by one third. Lots of the criticism came from AOL’s expenses in...
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The Future of Content
Over here at Kapost, we talk to a lot of publishers and people creating content. These are all sorts of people such as large known publishers, college newspapers, small company blogs and mommy blogs....
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Kapost Interview on KillerStartups
The other day, I gave an interview about Kapost to KillerStartups and i realized that i have a lot more to say than i thought i would. I’m going to republish some of it here. First, I haven’t talked...
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My Fav Stuff: Tech Tools and People I Follow
I re-posted an interview last week that I did for KillerStartups. That one was all about Kapost. Here’s the 2nd half of that interview that’s more personal stuff. I never get a chance to write about...
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Why Newspapers Will be Dead Soon
Read this post this morning by a former editor of the Chicago Times. He writes: Several years ago, the Washington Post convened a series of focus groups to learn why most individuals under the age...
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WWTDD on the Blog
Back in 2008, Qloud got acquired by BuzzMedia and Toby and I were assigned to running the product and engineering divisions of the company. Buzz owned at the time around 50 blogs around music and...
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Netflix vs. HBO
What’s the future of tv network or service? It’s probably a subscription service that: Has exclusive content Is available on all the devices you own (TV set, mobile devices, iPad, etc.) Has a library...
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The Cover of NYTimes is an Instagram Photo
As if journalists weren’t having a tough time. Today’s cover of the New York Times is further proof that the cost-structure of journalism is crumbling. The cover is an image of Alex Rodriquez and the...
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Bet: Quora vs. Foursquare
If you were given 1% of a company, which one would you take between Quora and Foursquare? I asked this question two years ago (in 2011) and was pro-foursquare. I then re-asked a year ago when...
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The wonder of film and the absence of Ebert
I loved Roger Ebert. Not just his writings, but everything he did as a journalist and movie lover. I read his reviews, his books, his twitter stream and his newsletter. If I watched a film and loved...
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From the front lines of the publishing industry
I got this email from a friend of mine who works in the newspaper business. It’s tough times for those folk and it’s only going to get worse. I thought his email was a good look at what’s actually...
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YouTube and Walmart
I recently read a post about advertising on online video. It’s a good post but probably too detailed for most people. One thing in the post that stuck out is how big Walmart is and also how big...
View ArticleHappy Holidays: My Holiday Reading
I did a lot of couch reading this holiday and as a result found some good stuff on the interwebs and thought I’d share… 1. The Paul Rudd & Conan video Paul Rudd has been going on Conan O’Brien’s...
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Yahoo! is on it’s way back
I had pretty much written Yahoo off. I thought they were dead. They hadn’t done anything new and interesting for over 5 years. Their webpages looked like crap. They were just treading water. That...
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Bezos Interview: Publishing and Fire Phone
I recently read this interview of Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos. It’s pretty interesting. Some thoughts: eBooks / Publishing I had always assumed that the print/book industry was really struggling – similar...
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Facebook’s Big Tobacco Problem
I read this article in Monday Note the other day and it struck me how much of a problem Facebook has on its hands. It’s about how Facebook is flat out harming it’s users through it’s core...
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