I grow more amused with every “epiphany” from sudden social media experts, particularly from marketers who profess Twitter is the sacred gateway to heightened brand experience – then spam you. It’s become comical. “Experts” spend their days following hordes of people, collecting follow backs, then unfollowing people and repeating the cycle. Best of all, these [...]

So Craigslist killed the newspapers? This is something David Simon alludes to in his testimony to the Senate committee, and is being discussed on Twitter. Newspapers have been pointing at Craigslist for decreasing classified revenue for awhile.
First, hasn’t anyone ever heard of Pennysaver? They were giving away free classified ads long before Craigslist, yet I [...]

Everyone knows that newspapers are reeling. This week, David Simon (former Baltimore Sun reporter and creator of the wire) testified at a Senate hearing committe on the status of newspapers. He lambasted new media and old media…the former for being amateur and the latter for “butcher[ing] itself…at the behest of Wall Street and the same [...]

It seems everyone is lining up to forecast the demise of Newspapers. There are even politicians who want to make newspapers non-profits, because it would be a “tragedy” to our democracy for newsapers to disappear. What?
Newspapers are dying, their content is not. Reading a morning newspaper is a one to one conversation between the author [...]

I love to write, and have so all my life. Writing is my great escape, my chance to pour out all the hidden thoughts trapped deep inside my inner chatter. I’ve never been shy with sharing what my pen produces.
Except for blogging. Again, to piggyback off my last post, it’s not that blog-posts can instantaneously [...]