Brian Fuller’s blog on the state of media and communications

The Future of Media-Toothpaste Edition

Can we put the toothpaste back in the tube?
Two great opinion pieces I read over the weekend raised that question in my pointy little head. Kevin Morris, of FPGA Journal, and Peter Kann, former publisher of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones chairman, weigh in from slightly different perspectives on the devolution of the [...]

Where’s the media?

I have a unique perch these days: I blog here and other places and am now building a community/social media strategy at Numetrics. I straddle the worlds of media and publicity/marketing, which is not a dull place to be. I’m a big proponent of vendor-as-publisher strategies, and I’ll write more about what we’re doing at [...]

DAC, EDA and the Unbearable Lightness of Blogging

Summary: The Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry may be dead (or dormant) but its communications strategies aren’t. Engineer- and corporate-bloggers are finding their way very quickly through the evolving social media world.

I pulled up to the Moscone Center for the 46th DAC this week and thought for a moment I was at the wrong convention [...]

The Changing Media Landscape at DAC

Arguably the highlight of this year’s Design Automation Conference (#46, if you’re counting and arguably the first “social media” DAC) was a program put together by Synopsys (kudos to Karen Bartleson, Rick Jamison and Yvette Huygen) called Conversation Central. It had a series of kitchen-table talks from engineer-bloggers and media folks on the changing nature [...]

Out of Joost

Joost, the online video-sharing service founded by Skype founders Nik Zennstrom and Janus Friis, pulled the plug on its original business model. The company, according to The Wall Street Journal, said it would reinvent itself as a whitebox technology provider for companies wanting to publish Internet video under their own brands (Hmm…. no first-mover advantage [...]

The Future of Newspapers–Spreadsheet Edition

Really interesting piece from Peter Kafka in All Things Digital today in which he talks with Outside.in CEO Mark Josephson. Josephson shares some spreadsheet numbers on a model of a future city newspaper.
It can work. It will have a smaller staff and no printing press, but Josephson argues it can work.
I buy his philosophy almost [...]

RMN, RIP

The Rocky Mountain News was closed this week, another tragedy on a trail of tears. It’s worth watching this wonderful self-tribute the News published and remember that this video report, well produced and evocative, is a prime example of newspapers can do, report the story regardless of medium.

Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.
If you [...]

A Simple Rx for Publishing

It’s getting pretty dire out there. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is on life support, and Hearst this week put a gun to the head of its astonishing loss-making flagship, the San Francisco Chronicle.
It once was easy (and appropriate) to chuckle at daily newspapers because they were arrogant and in denial for sooooo long, but now we [...]

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