Yomiuri Shimbun, the world’s largest circulation daily newspaper (weekday: 14,242,000 copies) has begun wholesaling a digital edition. According to Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association) Yomiuri will sends its PDF files to NewspaperDirect of Canada and Konica Business Machines…
Does anyone else remember the scene in the movie, Miracle on Thirty-Fourth Street, when a department store Santa Claus revolutionizes and enhances his store’s business by telling shoppers where to find desired merchandise at other stores, too? Online Journalism Review likewise features…
Last week, we criticized the decision of Advance Internet President & Creator Director Jeff Jarvis not to speak at the Online News Association‘s annual conference because the ONA plans to charge each speaker a regular attendee’s registration fee. We think the ONA’s…
Japan Media Review offers a good story about OhmyNews.com of South Korea, a collaborative “citizen reporters” site that had a affect on it nation. San Jose Mercury News tech columnist Dan Gillmor recently termed OhmyNews.com it a site that, “is transforming the…
Cloudmark, which manufactures spam filters for corporations, is hawking an e-mail rating system that it says could solve the problem of ‘False-Positives’ — solicited e-mail that gets caught in spam filters. Nice try, but technological solutions aren’t really going to solve the…
The growth of i-mode, increased services utilizing general packet radio service (GPRS) networks and the introduction of 3G are changing the user experience for Western European mobile phone users, according to a report available to eMarketer subscribers: “The migration from 2G mobile…
Navigating in New Media is much like flying an airplane. Unless you’re experienced with these media’s vagarities and business cycles, you tend to overreact and make problems worse. Porpoising is what pilots call those overreactions, which aim too high or too low,…
Because in January Editor & Publisher magazine will switch from weekly to monthly print publication and announced that it also would “significantly enhance” its Web site operation, it perhaps only natural for Web-based journalists to believe that the Web killed this weekly.…
Most Danish newspaper boys want to have a mobile phone, so why give them those phones to help them better deliver newspapers? That’s a concept Sonofon and Dansk Avis Distribution (DAD), which distributes a variety of daily newspaper in Denmark, are implementing…
Nokia claims that use of e-mail on mobile phones will grow by 35 percent during the next 18 months. The Register thinks Nokia’s prediction might be somewhat high and quotes an analyst who believe that 10 percent growth would be more realistic.
Textually.org tells us that the North American wireless phone network Nextel will be offering live SMS alerts from National Hockey League games. A subscribers have a choice of receiving alerts when his favorite NHL team’s scores, or end-of period results, or end-of-game…
How did the UK’s smallest national daily newspaper create the most successful UK newspaper Web site? Read this interview with Guardian Editor-in-Chief Emily Bell.
For more than eight years, Pathfinder.com has been the oxymoron of online publishing. Pathfinder and its parent company, AOL Time Warner (soon to be renamed Time Warner) are the poster children for Mass Media cluelessness about New Media. So, no one should…
Just how ill did the Sobig virus make the world’s personal computers and which region were worst affected? McAfee.com, manufacture of the world’s most popular anti-virus software, reports that 6.1% of the world’s personal computers it scanned had been infected during the…
In case you haven’t counted them all lately, slightly more than half of all Internet domains are commercial. According to SecuritySpace.com’s September 1st Survey: 5,766,929 domains are .com (50.1% of all registered Internet domains). 825,832 domains are .net (7.2%) 640,109 domains are…
Some details from the Economists‘ story about Italian mobile phone use: Usage of a what the Italians call at telfonino may exceed 90% of the Italian population this year (perhaps only use of pasta eclipses it). More than half of Italian children…
Last week, We reported our experiences speaking at this year’s Seybold San Francisco conference, which we left on Friday. Scott Rosenberg of Salon.com reports his experience speaking there, plus why blogs and RSS are unlikely to replace commercial publishing and what we…
The following is no overstatement: The Internet was founded and grows upon the concept of open standards. Moreover, when the Web, a subset of the Internet, was designed, its designer’s intentions were that all content on the Web use the same standards so that all that content could be accessed by anyone on Web. Here are our reactions to an Online News discussion currently underway about what, if any, standards that media Web sites should use.
Apparently denying its readers whatever ‘enhancements’ that publishing just annually would bring, Editor & Publisher magazine has announced that it will enhance its contents by switching from weekly to monthly publication, beginning in January. As much as we enjoy being buffetted by a good PR spin, E&P‘s is simply fatuous and underscores the magazine’s decline under ownership by VNU Media. Read our analysis, which compares E&P against one of its competitors and outlines why E&P has been failing under VNU’s mismanagement.
Our presentation on The Wireless World panel yesterday at the Seybold-Romano Future of Print Conference, is available for
The Seybold San Francisco 2003 Conference this year was, in the words Wired.com, “barren and sedate.” Attendence was down to only one-third the usual at this 21st annual Seybold show, which was held not in the main Moscone Conference Center but in…
Here are the conclusions that Adobe Systems Inc.’s Principal Scientist Dov Issacs, and Rochester Institute of Technology Professor of Digital Printing Frank Romano, who more often than now have differing or opposing viewpoints, gave in the concluding session yesterday at the Seybold-Romano…
Pity our friend Jeff Jarvis, president & creative director of Advance Internet, publishers of Web sites of more than 20 major American newspapers and for all the Conde Nast magazines. The Online News Association asked Jeff to sit on a panel about…
Electronic paper will begin to steal market share from print as soon as 3 years from now, predicted Michael Kleper, the Paul and Louis Miller Distinguished Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology‘s School of Print Media. Moreover, within three years, printers…
Barnes & Noble.com today announced that, effective immediately, it will no longer sell electronic books. It told its customers that they have 90 days to download any eBooks that they’ve already purchased but not yet downloaded. “After December 9, 2003, eBook titles…
More than $25 billion in printing revenues have been lost to electronic competitors during the past three years, printing strategies consultant Keith Davidson told the Seybold-Romano Future of Print conference today. Moroever, 70% of the press industry’s disappeared during 1992-2000 due to…
Although the printing industry’s business has grown by 5% to 7% per annum for most of the past 20 years, that growth has permanently ended, according to Frank Romano, who holds the Roger K. Fawcett Distinguished Professor of Digital Publishing chair at…
This week, we’re at the Seybold 2003 Conference in San Francisco, where tomorrow we’re speaking about ‘The Wireless World’ in the Seybold-Romano Future of Print Conference track. If you’re also at Seybold this week, contact us by e-mail.
Editor & Publisher Magazine this morning asked us to comment about (a) the merger of PowerOne Media, Inc., and Employment Specialists, L.L.C., owner of Employment Wizard and Careersite, and (b) PowerOne’s acquisition of employment voice technology company , The Center for American…
We’ve long thought that European online advertising shows greater flair than its American cousins. For examples, Creative Showcase displays the best of UK online advertising. Launched in association with Media Guardian, it highlights the UK’s monthly award for the best online campaign,…
Here is something that is bound to upset publishers who are now charging for archival access to their Web pages: The WayBack Machine search engine at Brewster Kahle‘s Internet Archives project has added keyword search capabilities. This makes it much more articulate…
Because American publishers & consumers are far behind those in rest of the world when the topic is news by SMS, we heartened and not surprised to see progress in the American heartland. The reason we’re not surprised is that the news…
We’re watching with increasing alarm the European Commission’s ‘Rome II‘ proposal to harmonise laws relating to non-contractual obligations across Europe. Its ramifications for libel, defamation, and privacy laws, could have a startling effect upon European publishers, including online publishers. Under its latest…
KPN, the Dutch phone company, has licensed CNNlive, a downloadable Java application that gives KPN’s i-mode mobile phone customers access to the top 10 stories from CNN.com’s international edition.
SonyEricsson, a mobile phone manufacturer, has licensed content from Turner Broadcasting’s Cartoon Network for use to Sony Ericsson phone users around the world. Starting in September, owners of SonyEriccson phones can, if they pay a premium rate, download games, ringtones, screensavers and…
The 20% of the Welsh population who actually speak their national language finally have their own online weekly newspaper. Y-Cymro, the weekly newspaper for North Wales, has launched a Web site, an e-mail edition, and a digital edition. “We decided to introduced…
Here’s a brilliant solution by some universities that might stop their students from illegally downloading copyrighted music and thereby spare the universities ilegal peril from the copyright holders: According to Penn State University President Graham Spanier, roughly a dozen colleges and universities…
The Gannett Company’s AZCentral, Web site of the Arizona Republic newspaper and KPNX televisino in Phoenix, launched a user registration program earlier this week. The site’s Manager for Site Presentation/Audience Development Mike Coleman told Editor & Publisher magazine that it will require…
Columbia Journalism Review has launched its redesigned Web site, which this month features a story about weblogging by alternative newspapers, amateur journalists, and mainstream media, with a list of mainstream American media that weblogs.
Anne Holland‘s ContentBiz today published the first of a two-part series, Buying & Selling Online Media Properties. Today it’s ‘Your Quick Guide Part I: Seller’s Side‘. Some details: Three times annual revenue is now a good benchmark —- down from 15 to…
Americans usually think of their country as the most technosavvy nation. Few realized just how far behind other countries the U.S. is with mobile phones. e-Marketer today offers a look at just how far behind:
On Monday, the Miami Herald profiled local resident Matt Drudge, who claims to earn US$1.2 million in advertising revenue from his Web site. Its ads are sold by Intermarkets, an agency that also sells banner for The Chicago Sun-Times, The Village Voice,…
The Online News listserv, an discussion list for journalists, was today discussing reporters who carry mobile phone with cameras. We pointed that discussion to the May edition of The Digital Photojournalist, in which Evan Nisselson, a photo editor who is now a…
A ClickZ column today by David Cohen of the Universal McCann Interactive advertising agency tells how far off the target demographic many media Web sites ad campaigns hit. For examples: “One amazing thing we routinely find is the relatively low target composition…
U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell talks about how he sees the Internet fitting into the future of News Media. Staci Kramer interviews him in Online Journalism Review.
The International Newspaper Marketing Association‘s 2004 World Congress will be held at Plaza Hotel in New York City on May 16-19.
We’re pleased to see our Theory of New Media — which we originally formulated as a way to explain to publishers and broadcasters what the differences are between Traditional and New Media — is now the required reading during the first week…
Editor & Publisher magazine reports that Tom Curley, the former publisher of USAToday who is the new president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press (he’s following a Gannett senior executive career tradition), told newspaper publishers about what he calls “eAP”…
Former banking and securities lawyer turned novelist and inventor R. Douglas McPheters has patented, demonstrated, and begun commercializing holographic keyboards and keypads. That’s right, nothing to touch. Use your fingers to type on a projected image of a keyboard. Or, while driving,…
For publishers and broadcasters, what’s the cogent difference between SMS and MMS? “With SMS it’s hard to differentiate and create a premium product,” Sky Sports’ Head of Enterprises Stephen Nuttall tells New Media Age. “With MMS we can provide audio and pictures,…