by Allen Weiner | October 13, 2008 | 1 Comment
One of the good things about living part time in Austin, Texas, is the number of Web 2.0 companies (not to mention Web 1.0) companies in the area and the entrepreneurial energy that permeates the tech community. I had the opportunity to visit one prominent Web 2.0 company, Pluck, last week. Pluck is a leader [...]
Category: advertising Newspapers Publishing social media Web 2.0 Tags: Austin, Newspapers, Pluck, Publishing, Seesmic, social media
by Allen Weiner | October 2, 2008 | Comments Off
As a native Philadelphian, it is always fun to poke fun at everything New Jersey, but I find nothing funny about the possibility of the Newark Star Ledger (yes, the paper Tony Sorpano would pick up at the bottom of his driveway) going out of business. Despite a huge number of buyouts (200 to be [...]
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Category: advertising Newspapers Publishing Tags: Minneapolis, Newark, Newspapers, Publishing, Spokane
by Allen Weiner | September 18, 2008 | Comments Off
A few scary signs that newspapers looking to the Web for salvation (and money) are finding bumps in that road: 1. McClatchy cuts 16 employees. Company sites soft ad market2. Newspaper online ad revenue is down 2.4% in Q2 compared to 2007. Here’s the report from the Newspaper Association of America on Poynter.org On the [...]
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Category: advertising Newspapers Publishing Uncategorized Tags: Newspaper Association of America, Newspapers, Publishing, The New York Times
