Social TV News wires notice news aggregators By David Johnson on Aug. 29, 2008 - 7:30 AM Reuters writer Robert MacMillan offers a list of news aggregator service sites that the LR faithful have all been using or keeping an eye on for quite a while now. I thought about not posting as it reminded me a little bit of Dr. ...
Social TV Newspapers cutting DC bureaus By David Johnson on Aug. 18, 2008 - 11:06 AM Howard Kurtz inks and chats in the Washington Post on how local papers and publishing chains are turning off the lights at their Washington bureaus as part cost-cutting and putting more attention on local content. The pull quote h ...
Social TV RIM Bold is coming, smartphone war is on By David Johnson on Aug. 15, 2008 - 5:22 AM Cory posted earlier on the iPhone’s success an implications in the local marketplace. Resarch in Motion is firing back in the smartphone wars. The Blackberry 9000, called “The Bold,” is already for sale in some i ...
Social TV More publishers using ad networks to sell inventory By David Johnson on Aug. 13, 2008 - 1:25 PM A year ago, publishers sold 5 percent of their inventory via online ad networks, a year later, that number has shot up to 30 percent. That has a lot of scary implications for anyone but the ad networks. As I read the original post ...
Social TV ‘Rip and read’ R.I.P. as print fades By David Johnson on Jul. 23, 2008 - 10:07 AM Brian Lowry has a column in Variety stating that TV and radio news is going to suffer greatly from the print decline. As print fades, then, the fallout promises to hasten broadcast news’ descent as well — from “R ...
Social TV ONA 2008 conference schedule is out By David Johnson on Jul. 23, 2008 - 9:20 AM The Online News Association is heading to Washington DC again this year for their annual confab. The schedule so far looks pretty decent. I’ve always gotten a lot out of ONA because it casts a wide net over broadcast, print ...
Social TV Any thoughts on WordPress 2.6? By David Johnson on Jul. 23, 2008 - 9:11 AM WordPress 2.6 (code-named “Tyner” after jazz great McCoy Tyner) hit the pipes about 10 days ago. I was disappointed with 2.5 when I found a number of my favorite WP features, like posting photos via e-mail and press it ...
Social TV Managing for margins: The end of broadcast TV? By David Johnson on Jul. 23, 2008 - 7:50 AM Shelly Palmer has this blast on HuffPost to counter remarks made by Ben Silverman, co-head of programming for the NBC Television Network. Sliverman said: “We’re managing for margin and not for ratings.” Palmer wr ...
Social TV AOL looking for love at Yahoo or Microsoft By David Johnson on Jul. 16, 2008 - 8:03 AM Reuters has anonymous sources that say things are heating up at Time Warner about dealing AOL as their August 1 shareholders meeting approaches. The gossip splits on either an outright sale to Microsoft or Yahoo showing shareholde ...
Social TV NewsHour looks into Tribune’s troubles By David Johnson on Jul. 16, 2008 - 7:30 AM Last night’s (Tuesday, July 15) NewsHour had a good package on the recent exits of top executives at the L.A. Times and Chicago Tribune that wraps in the current woes in the industry as a whole. (link goes to show rundown wi ...