journalism

Media Companies: Go Mobile or Become Social Media Serfs

October 31, 2014

Media companies are having a hard time trying to get people to pay for digital news. When there are so many sites that just provide headlines and a few paragraphs of sensational context (which is what most people want, anyway), it’s difficult to convince readers that “news” is a product that’s worth any money. That’s…

For Writers, Virtual Philosophy

Facebook, journalism, media, mobile, new york times, social media

Don’t Like Native Advertising? Start Paying for News.

September 2, 2014

Lately, there’s been a lot of discussion about one of the newest advertising tactics in the journalism world: native advertising. You might have seen it yourself, if you’ve felt the need to click one of BuzzFeed’s “10 Reasons Why You Should…” list articles. You’ll have a series of copyright-infringing GIFs, generally stolen in some capacity…

Virtual Philosophy

content marketing, digital media, journalism, native advertising, newspaper, social media

How eBooks Can Save Journalism

April 7, 2013

At the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), Michelle Bachmann said a lot of things that weren’t true. She said she got the information from a self-published book, Presidential Perks Gone Royal. It’s written by a Republican lobbyist. Bachmann trusted a book’s facts. Nothing wrong with that. However, with the filters for publication down, lies and…

Culture, For Writers, Politics, Rantography, Rants, Technology

ebooks, journalism, media, politics, self-publish, writing

The Internet Has Made Us All Entitled Content Thieves

March 29, 2013

This week, the New York Times closed another loophole that got around its notorious paywall. You know… the paywall. The thing ensuring that one of the last bastions of what Americans call journalism (even if it’s owned by someone with a dubious background at best) doesn’t have to depend on advertising revenue that directly influences its…

For Bands, For Visual Artists, For Writers, Rants, Technology

ebooks, internet, journalism, self-publish, technology

Journalism Isn’t Terrible, We Are: Selective, Celebrity Tragedy

February 22, 2013

Rantography

journalism, mass media, media, Oscar Pistorius

What We Can Learn From France and Google’s War Over Free Content

November 15, 2012

There’s a territorial dispute afoot, have you heard about it? French newspaper publishers have accused Google of deterring would-be readers by displaying the first sentences of an article in “Google News.” The working theory is that, rather than clicking into the website for the full article, readers graze and move on, like information-hungry cows wandering…

For Writers, Marketing

content marketing, ebooks, Google, journalism, newspaper, self-publish