The borders of Italy are in flux, courtesy of climate change. Glaciers in the Alps are melting, so Italians are growing unsure where their country ends and that of their neighbors begins.
I learned about this, like so many things, from public radio's program "The World."
These days, public radio is a good companion as my blogging habit has gone on steroids, with most of the output going out over at Bnet. For those so inclined, I'm posting a set of links to recent posts there, followed by some comments (below):
May 6 Publishers and Mobile: Follow the Music
"As we continue to track the emerging synergy between print publications and mobile devices, it’s worth noting some of the parallels with the music industry..."
May 5 Smashwords Broadens its Reach to Publishers
"Over its first year of operations, the eBook publishing platform and online book store Smashwords has catered mainly to authors, publishing some 1,200 titles from about 600 authors. As is fitting on its first-year anniversary, Smashwords announced today that it is broadening its services to add support for book publishers..."
May 5 The Sweet Spot: How Print and Mobile Will Converge
"If you’ve been struggling to imagine how newspapers, magazines and books will be able to survive the historic transformation to online digital media, one answer may be that you may have gotten stuck at the desktop and/or laptop stage of thinking..."
May 5 White House to Newspapers: No Bailouts, Guys
"It’s time to kick ‘em when they’re down. At his annual shareholder’s meeting in Omaha over the weekend, the world’s second-richest man (and most-renowned investor), Warren Buffett, answered one question by allowing that he wouldn’t buy most American newspaper companies “at any price...”
May 4 WashPost Ad Revenue Plummets by One-Third in Q-1
"Of all the major newspapers on various “endangered” lists these days, one that rarely gets mentioned is the Washington Post. Unlike many of its competitors, whose stocks trade for pennies or a few dollars, the Post has been soaring up there in Google-like territory..."
May 4 NY Times Pulls Plug: Boston Globe has 60 Days Left
"Though it has been inevitable for months, it was still a shock to see the headline that the Boston Globe is to close its doors ..."
May 3 World Wide Web War 3.0 -- Facebook vs. Twitter
"Wow. This one has been developing for some time now right before our eyes, but the titanic nature of the faceoff between what are arguably the two most aggressive representatives of Web 2.0 — Facebook and Twitter — has only recently heated up to the boiling point..."
May 2 How to Make Money via Twitter
"The rap from cynics throughout the Web 2.0 period is much like that during Web 1.0 — “where’s the business model?”
May 2 What's Bigger than Email? Social Media (by the numbers)
"The worldwide web is a still a teenager, but it is poised to become a legal adult later this summer, on a date nobody is likely to notice, let alone celebrate. How tender and young the web still is can be hard to remember, since it has come to dominate our lives in so many ways so quickly..."
May 1 Dancing With Google, Does the AP Have the Moves?
"...the latest revelations about which company is the real target of the AP’s wrath comes as no surprise: Google..."
May 1 Google's Split Personality: Good vs. Evil
"If Google were reduced to a single character in film, it might well be Anakin Skywalker, George Lucas’s heroic Jedi Knight who tragically yields to the Force to become the evil Darth Vader..."
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These are my first 11 posts for May. What I am trying to do is to track the collapse of old media industries and the emergence of new. Many of the major news brands will survive, but they need to adapt quickly.
That's the purpose of my blog -- to try to help my fellow media industry workers figure out survival strategies. Hopefully, some of the pieces will appeal to a more general audience as well, since the media affects everybody. As always, I appreciate any questions, critiques, or feedback of any kind!
Cheers,
David
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