About 4 days after I switched to a MacBook I got an iPhone. While I love this phone, some of its features still need a little work. Picture and video messaging. People send me pictures all the time. When a picture comes to me on the iPhone, I get a text message with a website… Read More
Lately I’ve found myself talking to companies that want to work with publishers, but they’re having a difficult time getting any business. In almost every conversation the same issue surfaces. The vendor wants to make the publisher understand their unique value proposition. However, the vendor’s general knowledge of publishing is often lacking and their specific… Read More
I was in line to get bagels last weekend. Half of the people on line wanted individual bagels – just a bag with bagels in it. I suggested to the person behind the counter that perhaps they should have a line for people that just want bagels. She looked at me funny, smiled, and then… Read More
The more I write, the more I read, the more questions I have, and the easier it is to write. The more I exercise, the better I feel, and the more productive I am. I wonder if there are other extensions of this principle – counterintuitive places where if we spend time we ultimately save… Read More
As of yesterday I’m a Mac user! Why did I switch after 26 years on a PC? Vista. Even though Vista was the “straw that broke the camel’s back” this has been coming for years. As soon as Apple started to care about the business user PC’s were in trouble. The transition hasn’t been flawless… Read More
Kate Worlock, Outsell Inc, published an interesting Insight yesterday: Millennials vs. Silver Surfers: Not So Different After All (subscription required). Kate’s analysis, based in a new report from University College London’s CIBER project (Information Behaviours of the Researcher of the Future, commissioned by the British Library and JISC), focuses on the searching behaviors of the… Read More
Yesterday marked the beginning of the SIIA Content Division’s Information Industry Summit. In order to keep up with the flow, I’m posting my notes and highlighting other blogs that are commenting on the presentations. The keynote speaker this morning was Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters. PaidContent.org covered his presentation in detail, but here are some… Read More
I haven’t posted in several weeks. No posts. No links. Nothing new. Yet my Feedburner subscriptions, page views, and unique visitors each decreased by less than 8%. Why? The biggest reason: Google (or more accurately, search). Roughly 85% of my traffic on a weekly basis is from search. For example, I wrote a post on… Read More