Dec
5
Lots of interest on the web:
- Troubling ’07 ad forecast for old-line media but not for online. Projections for ad spending in 2007 don’t look good for print.
- The Wall Street Journal Gets Small. Jack Shafer has unkind things to say about the WSJ announcement of its redesign, starting with a memorable lede: “It’s the rare amputee who describes himself as better off without his two big toes than with them, but that’s what Wall Street Journal Publisher L. Gordon Crovitz attempts today in a “Letter From the Publisher” on the paper’s op-ed page.”
- Photography’s Photoblogging Future. Dennis Dunleavy carried out an informal survey and found some interesting things about photoblogging. (Disclosure: I was one of those who took part in the survey.)
- Phonajournalism, 101?. Stewart Pittman reacts to “the end of photojournalism” as only Stewart can. UPDATE: J.D. Lasica has some things to say, too.
- Prototypes reveal contours of future electronic newspaper. Fascinating, and tantalizing, word on what’s happening in some media R&D labs in Europe. Read it and follow the links to the demos.
- UPDATE II: The free papers revolution in Denmark. Juan Antonio Giner reports that freesheets in Denmark are starting to affect circulation of the country’s major dailies. He suggests that’s good news.
