Do Not Pass Go! Do Not Read ‘All the News That’s Fit to Print’ The Gray Lady, better known as The New York Times, introduced its new subscription structure or paywall on Monday, March 28. Now we’ve had a week to decide how, if at all, the change has impacted our lives. The $40 million [...]
rue to the ever-evolving world of social media, there’s a new online tool that’s been popping up frequently in my Twitter stream. It’s called paper.li, and it organizes links shared on Twitter into a newspaper-style format.
Tweetea is an event taking place every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Goldfish Tea in Royal Oak, Mich. The goal of Tweetea is to bring together metro Detroit’s social media community in person to discuss topics related to…you got it…social media. Tuesday’s topic was particularly interesting because we discussed the impact social media has had [...]
Just when you think the media business is dwindling and dying, along come a bunch of beacons of hope, some from the most unlikely of sources. We’ve written again and again and again about the contraction of print media, but it seems some won’t go down without a fight. Consider just a few recent examples: [...]
An update to this post, which begins to answer the question, “Where will we get our news if the newspapers go away?” News portals/sites are popping up everyday…many with geographic slants, like this one: Michigan Positive. Can something like this be the next-gen alternative to traditional media, like the Detroit Free Press, et. al.? Time [...]
