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Where Old Media and New Media Meet™ helps print media professionals adapt to the web and web editors understand where mainstream media professionals are coming from: Because both print and new media are here to stay. The blog analyzes the changes in old media, helps print journalists see the potential in new media/social media and bridges the gap between print and the web. Better content leads to better communications, no matter the platform and no matter the changes in communications — offline or online.
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Where Old Media and New Media Meet

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Where Old Media and New Media Meet · 3M ago

The Sins of Our [Web Development] Past

I just came across these pictures (top: homepage; bottom: sub-landing page) of my first, heavily text-based website that I built in 1998 (Hmmm. Where were screenshot options back then?). Here are larger sizes of the top and bottom images. The blue arrow blinked, and the site was entirely built by ha
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Where Old Media and New Media Meet · 3M ago

SOPA/PIPA: It’s Not Over Yet

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), two controversial privacy acts that were up for a vote in the House and the Senate respectively, have caused a huge uproar, an internet blackout by more than 115,000 websites, an outpour of comments and discussions o
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Where Old Media and New Media Meet · 4M ago

SOPA/PIPA: Take Action

Filed under: new media, PIPA, SOPA Tagged: Censorship, SOPA
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Where Old Media and New Media Meet · 4M ago

Cutting-Edge Technology

I attended a very interesting panel discussion and lecture yesterday at Google’s headquarters in Chelsea, hosted by the New York Technology Council (NYTECH): “Cutting-Edge Technology Showcase” by tech enthusiasts, artists and “white hat” hackers. The five speakers represented growing fields in consu
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Where Old Media and New Media Meet · 4M ago

2012 Previews and 2011 Reviews

At year’s end and the new year’s beginning, I suppose it is inevitable to look back to forge ahead. Here are some interesting takes on the past, present and future. Expect longer blog posts about some of those trends throughout the next months. Let me know which topics interest you most. Speckyboy h
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Where Old Media and New Media Meet · 4M ago

2011 > 2012

Leave the old behind…but don’t lose sight of it. You might need it one day. Happy New Year! Newspaper Boys, St. Louis, 1910 Source: Shorpy   Filed under: old media, old media values Tagged: old media, old media values
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Where Old Media and New Media Meet · 5M ago

Long Live Long Form

In a Mediabeat Interview (click image to view) with Michael Wolff, founder of Newser (“Read Less, Know More”), a news aggregator, Wolff explains: “We take lots of content and make it short, without ripping of someone’s headline or lead. We take a full story and very carefully reduce it to 65-200 wor
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Where Old Media and New Media Meet · 5M ago

Quickshots: December

Wired Magazine’s new look was introduced in its January 2012 issue. Old media and New Media meet: “The redesign is an entirely new platform for what Wired has become: not just ink on paper but increasingly, pixels on screen,” state the editors in their introduction. According to Wired, 20% of their
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Where Old Media and New Media Meet · 6M ago

Quickshots: November

What was it like to be the top press photographer in New York City in the days “Before the Paparazzi?” ♦ The Deadline Club has issued a statement concerning the arrests of journalists at the Occupy Wall Street protests:”The Deadline Club condemns the actions of the New York Police Department in deta
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Where Old Media and New Media Meet · 7M ago

Quickshots: October

A great example why print still works: The Occupy Wall Street Journal is a 4-page broadsheet that is widely distributed among protesters downtown. “Forgive an old newspaper hack a moment of sentimentality, but it is somehow reassuring that a newspaper still has traction in an environment preoccupied
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