Truemors
Print After Party: Jason Eppink Dances on Old Media's Ruins
Artist Jason Eppink has thrown an after-party for dead-tree media... in this case, tiny kinetic sculptures in abandoned newspaper boxes. I think it's rather life-affirming to throw the newspaper boxes an... 
Victory for W2 Café
City Council today approved the W2 Social Enterprise Café on the ground level of the Woodwards redevelopment. This is a historic victory for W2 Community Media Arts Society who has been in a four year RFP... 
Layoff 2009: An Ex-Yahoo's Survival Guide
Part One: Suddenly a Statistic So it's 2009 and you've just spent the past 15 years or so either working, going to school (partying), or pursuing your chosen profession. You were one of the most experienced guys in... 
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Greek papers left with egg on face over meeting that never was
The atmosphere between Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan and Greek PM, Kostas Karamanlis was described as tense, somewhat "icy" according to Greek national daily, Vima. On the other hand, the Ethnos newspaper... 
Vancouver Digital Week hosts 3rd Annual PopVox Awards
Vancouver is preparing itself for another invigorating week of Business to Business speed dating, an influx of game developers, Obama’s social media guru, and the gathering of digital media industry’s finest at this year’s Vancouver Digital Week 2009. Taking place...
HuffPost Starts 'Investigative Fund' To Hire Journalists
Funny that it is new media saving journalists rather than the mainstream, all things considered. "NEW YORK — The Huffington Post said Sunday that it will bankroll a group of investigative journalists,... 
Jason Calacanis: "Newspapers deserve to die. Good riddance."
OMMA, oh my! A YouTube clip of Jason Calacanis "incendiary" keynote address "Advertising, Riots, Twitter, Facebook and the Depression" at the OMMA Hollywood 2009 conference was posted Thursday in which the...
Citizen Journalism Website Triumphs at MediaGuardian Awards 2009
The 2009 Media Guardian Innovation Awards have awarded Demotix (www.demotix.com) a citizen-journalist newswire and photo agency the prize for best Independent Media at the ceremony which took place last night... 
Seattle P-I Newspaper to Close: "But the bloodline will live on"
While their Denver counterparts at the now defunct Rocky Mountain News try to drum up pledge support for an online version of their newspaper, staffers at the soon-to-be-extinct Seattle Post-Intelligencer are... 
created by Jarrett Martineau | 40 wks ago | updated 40 wks ago
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How To Create A World Wide Wave ... or Not
How do you get your ideas, stories, products or services to spread like wildfire over the web by millions of people? Are the huge success stories you hear about the viral power of the web just flukes - or can anyone do it? Interview and book review of a “WORLD WIDE... 
Twitter boosts ratings for Sanchez on CNN
Rich Sanchez talks about his exerience with Twitter: ""I can't see how anyone who's forward thinking wouldn't look at our model...and say 'wow this is very likely the way things will move in the future,'" said... 
Dunbar Residents Rally to Support Local Merchant
Residents of Dunbar are trying to help out a longstanding local hardware store. A recent neighbourhood mailing list had the following plea: ""The little hardware store on Dunbar Street is in trouble."Grant has put his entire stock on sale this month of February....
Obama to Host 'Neighborhood Inaugural Ball' in Washington, D.C.
January 20th, Inauguration Day 2009, will be a huge event across the United States and President-elect Barack Obama wants to make sure that all Americans have the opportunity to join in the celebrations. With that...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 50 wks ago | updated 48 wks ago
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10255 views | 22 recommendations | 29 comments
New Media Venture Turns Bloggers Into Print Journalists
" As old media races to catch up with the Web and figure out how to successfully monetize print content online, one publication is taking a drastically different approach: web to print. The Printed Blog, a startup founded and funded by former business productivity software...
Israel Takes PR Battle to Twitter, Bans Journalists from Gaza
As violence continues to be waged in Gaza, the public relations and media battle between Israel and Hamas continues to be waged online. In an apparent "internet first", last Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces (by...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 50 wks ago | updated 50 wks ago
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