Chevrolet Volt called back over battery-fire issues
Background: Problems with the Volt’s Lithium-Ion battery surfaced in the fall on separate fronts, thanks to two garage fires and results of a federal crash test: The Volt and the battery fires furor | Drive For Innovation – AVNETExpress ON THE ROAD TO RALEIGH, N.C.-We’re still rolling blissfully south toward our next big innovation stop [...]
Electric vehicles timeline 2011
Googleusercontent December 20, 2011 9:32:17 PM EST JANUARY Ford Supercharges Electric Vehicle Plan, Unveiling New C-MAX Energi And C-MAX Hybrid Products – TheStreet Page 6 of 6 on . Thestreet Jan. 14 Electric Cars Steal The Spotlight At Auto Show : NPR NPR Jan. 20 Electric and hybrid cars: One size will not fit all [...]
The world’s most dogged industry
The newspaper industry is nothing if not dogged. It’s been savaged by multiple IEDs on Evolutionary Road–the Internet, mobile phones, video, podcasts, two major recessions in 10 years–and it’s still alive. Sure, Lee Enterprises, which owns the St. Louis Post Dispatch, filed for bankruptcy this week, but those stories seem to come less frequently these [...]
Author photos must go
Here’s a suggestion for newspapers that want to reinvent themselves as they’ve evolving in the digital age: get rid of author pictures. You know the ones I’m talking about: They’re outsized photos of head shots of columnists or authors that take up a lot of valuable page real estate in print. Second, I’d rather not [...]
Dear Mr. Cameron: Regulate this
One of the most stunning pieces of media news in our times is being followed with another piece of stunning news. News Corp. announced this week that it is shutting down the 168-year-old News of the World newspaper in an attempt to limit the damage from the publication’s involvement in hacking into citizens’ phones for [...]
How to build audience engagement from scratch
The fundamental difference between media now and media 15 years ago is proximity and data. The rise of digital publishing put readers in touch with reporters instantly via comments. The feedback loop was squeezed immensely; in some cases, it tightened like a noose around the necks of reporters and editors too siloed to listen to [...]
Are you nuts?
Yes. We’re driving a Chevy Volt across country, starting in July. Our YouTube video below gives you a little of the backstory. In short, we want to celebrate innovation in electronics and got a fantastic, visionary sponsor to foot the bill. For me, this represents not only a truly epic road trip but a fantastic [...]
The Ghost is back!
Greeley’s Ghost, many of you noticed, was down for some time. Why? Because I’m an idiot. My Go Daddy hosting account sends messages to an account I rarely read and I missed the renewal. This cost me loads of dollars, because we had to rebuild the database. Thankfully, there are guys like David Naylor, who [...]
Renewal, reinvention and reinvigoration
We often attach significance (earned or not) to years ending in zero. Such it was (for me) with 2010. I turned 50, celebrated 25 years with the world’s most excellent woman, sold our house, moved to San Francisco, and changed jobs. (Oh, and my hometown baseball team won its first-ever World Series championship). But the [...]
We’re increasingly paying for content–yay
It’s taken time, but we’re starting to scoop the toothpaste back in the tube. Pew Research reports today that two thirds of us are willing to pay for online content, and the average user spends about $10 a month on such content. That’s good news for those of us trying to monetize what we think [...]
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