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On the newspaper industry:
I think its easy to point to the Internet when you’re laying people off to raise profit margins to please Wall Street. In my mind its unfair to lay it our feet and its done to maximize performance.
“Do you see a day where advertising is a greater percentage for newspaper companies?”
What is [...]
Building A Web Business — Mark Evans interviews Jim Buckmaster of Craiglist.
How did it start?
Craig Newmark started an email cc list that listed cool tech listings. People started contributing their own listings for apartments etc, in 1996 a simple interface was created and it expanded organically from there. Why has it been popular? We’ve been [...]
Stuard MacDonald speaks to Richard Edelman
”What is PR”
Its about telling a truthful story. It shouldn’t be categorized as spin, or the black arts. That’s malpractice. The best PR is coming up with a strategy that helps a company do the right thing and convey that story well
“Why is the PR Rep so bad?”
I think its [...]
Update: Fuzz.Gaulin.ca liveblogged *my* panel, so its kind of interesting to read a transcript of the thoughts that went down in chronological order. The thoughts about blogging were the ones generally made by me. Check it out over here.
Wow, great day, Mesh. There was lots of talk and interesting discussion around how new media [...]
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EK on DRM: Its a very small piece of a very large problem. I don’t think that the removal of it will make a difference with respect to revenue at EMI. The larger problem is that people have a free alternative and there’s no way around that, including DRM. The issues around [...]
With Jian Ghomeshi, Amber MacArthur, McLean Mashingaidze-Greaves, and Ethan Kaplan.
JG: Sam the Record Man will close down, an icon for Torontonians. 20 years ago that was *the* place for music, making it there was a sign of legitimacy. 10 years ago, signing to a major label was a sign that you’d arrived. [...]
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CB: The nature of broadband providers make it such that things will be open and transparent
Question: “What advice would you have for the old media institutions re: their conception of authority?”
RS: The most important thing is to be right. Mike Arrington said he wants to be first, but I’d rather be right rather than [...]
