Japanese Products Map the Mobile Road Ahead (Alertbox April 2001)

High-quality telephones are only half the story. The DoCoMo store also featured a range of more specialized mobile Internet appliances. Camessepetit and Eggy (shown) both let users snap photos, which they can then decorate with cartoonish overlays and transmit to others who are using similar devices or regular i-mode telephones.

Scripting News - The New My.Netscape.

"...I would have no problem with the death penalty for corporations that behave recklessly with resources that don't belong to them. For example, I would have put Exxon to death for the Valdez disaster to set an example for other would be rapers of the environment. And I would put AOL to death for holding the Web hostage to whatever stupid games they're playing."

Time Inc. Staff Adjusts Warily to Life Within AOL

And Mr. Pearlstine said there was disagreement over whether to use the phrase "customers" or "readers" when it came to the audience for Time Inc. magazines.
"Yes, readers are customers," he said, "but as an editor I like to think of readers from the editorial perspective, even if they are customers from the business perspective."
In the final corporate mission statement that covers all the company's divisions, the term "customers" won.

Digitized History

"...digital technology can perfectly replicate only what is already digital. At home, you can now turn out exact copies of existing CD recordings. But even in the best digital recordings of live performance there is a loss of grain, of substance. You can scan a photograph or the pages of a book, but the original remains tangibly different, if only because it was printed on different stock with inks of different composition. There may be only the ghost of a difference between the original and the copy, but these are the ghosts that matter. In the texture of old paper or the warmth of old ink, there lurks something irreproducibly rich, a kind of information that cannot be detached from the stuff itself."

DaveNet : The Web is a Writing Environment
Amazingly the print publishers are pulling back from the Web, as if to say "Whew glad that's over." Fundamental mistake.

Perhaps the more fundamental mistake is to view cutbacks at media websites as anything more than "right-sizing" of their operations. There is nothing further from the truth than the thought that somehow they are glad that the internet bubble has burst. If anything, the Web has given new life to media organizations that have been scrambling over the last few years trying to figure out how to get readers, viewers, and listeners from gen-X, Y and Z.

My position may, of course, be biased by my current old media employment situation; but I am also a veteran of the boom era on the Web, having spent 2 yrs at THE new media powerhouse.

From where I sit, straddling both the old and new worlds of publishing, technology comes and technology goes; ultimately its all about the content. The killer app of the Web is access for all; both content consumers and creators. Continuing this conversation in an us against them, "We will bury you." environment benefits no one and clouds the truth even further.

There is room for us all.

Taking the 'paper' out of the local newspaper:

"Subscribe to the News Journal of Amelia and Powhatan counties and you can forget about the dull thud of the paper hitting your porch. They don't have news carriers, for one thing.

Even if they did, it would be more like the explosive shattering of a computer terminal on your porch.

The News Journal, a weekly newspaper that began in 1993 and started an online version last year, now is keeping only the online version. "

New York Times Co. to cut staff - Tech News - CNET.com

Salad Days are over at Time, Inc. NYPOST.COM Business: MEDIA INK By KEITH J. KELLY

Is this the revenge of the dotcom-ers?

Apple eNews - Breaking New Journalistic Ground

Nice feature on the work being done at my sister publication and alma mater, washingtonpost.com (I am currently Photo Editor for the Washington Post Magazine and was Director of Photography at washingtonpost.com).
In this era of the dotcom meltdown, its nice to see highlights from a major player in online journalism talking about the quality of the content and NOT just about the cost of doing business.

ASNE Reporter 2001-Poynter waives seminar fees through December.

Poynter, one of the leading venues for journalist training, has become even more important as old media organizations struggle with the shift to new media. This move now makes it possible for people to get some of the best transition training available for free. Amazing!

In the interest of full disclosure, I teach several classes a year at Poynter on new media and management for visual journalists.