Traditional Media Debate — BlogWorld Expo Blog

The Death of Print Media?

By Alli on July 25, 2010

Last week, Mashable posted an interesting poll, asking readers if they liked print books better than ebooks. Over 2,000 readers voted in the poll. The clear winner? Print books. Over 75 percent of voters prefer print books or like print books and ebooks equally. So, a clear win for print media, right? Maybe. What I … [Read more]

Filed Under: Traditional Media Debate Tagged With: blogging, ebooks, print media

The New Media Way Is Better Than The Old Media Way

By Rick on March 2, 2010

The New York Times ran a story yesterday on a new group known as The Coffee Party. What follows is a classic contrast in how old media handles a news story vs. how new media handles a news story. Leave your politics aside for the moment and look at this excerpt from Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion: Update: … [Read more]

Filed Under: New Media & Politics, Traditional Media Debate Tagged With: Cofee Party, Kate Zernike, Le-gal-in-sur-rec-tion, Memeorandum, New Media, New York Times, old media, Tea Party

America’s Tweethearts Story In Vanity Fair Is Good For New Media

By Rick on January 21, 2010

While attending Affiliate Summit West earlier this week Joe Morin asked me if I had read the new Vanity Fair article America’s Tweethearts or Social Media Insider’s reaction to it. I hadn’t yet but Joe sent me a link to both and after reading them I of course have some comments. I liked both the … [Read more]

Filed Under: Disputes, Kudos, People in Media, Traditional Media Debate Tagged With: Amy Jo Martin, Catherine P. Taylor, Felicia Day, Julia Roy, Sarah Austin, Sarah Evans, Social Media Insider, Stefanie Michaels, Twitter, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Vanity Fair

America's Tweethearts Story In Vanity Fair Is Good For New Media

By Rick on January 21, 2010

Filed Under: Kudos, Latest Blog Drama, People in Media, Traditional Media Debate Tagged With: Amy Jo Martin, Catherine P. Taylor, Felicia Day, Julia Roy, Sarah Austin, Sarah Evans, Social Media Insider, Stefanie Michaels, Twitter, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Vanity Fair

Inspired By Abby Johnson at WebProNews.com

By Jim Turner on January 13, 2010

I can’t help but give a shout out here to someone that has given me inspiration in her work that she produces and the content she provides. I am talking about Abby Johnson with WebProNews. I first met Abby when she interviewed me following a presentation I gave at BlogWorld & New Media Expo on … [Read more]

Filed Under: BlogWorld 2010, BlogWorld Links, Conference Blogging, New Media News & Education, People in Media, Podcasting & Radio, Traditional Media Debate Tagged With: #bwe09, Abby Johnson, Apple, BWE10, CES10, Sony, video blogging, WebProNews

Size Matters To Those That Want Size

By Jim Turner on January 8, 2010

I was hoping I could get a better title than that but I wanted to also see what kind of Google search results that will provide with giggles late at night. The reason I wanted to talk about size is because there seems to be a differing opinion as it relates to the size of … [Read more]

Filed Under: Business of Blogging, Corporate Blogging, Ethics, New Media News & Education, People in Media, Social Media For Business, Social Networking, Traditional Media Debate Tagged With: Advertising, Anil Dash, Jason Calacanis, Kim Kardashian, Metrics, Page Views, Paid Tweets, Seth Godin, Twitter

Why Pepsi Is Good For Bloggers

By Jim Turner on January 5, 2010

This is certainly not a “Pepsi is better than Coke” or now begins the cola wars , I am referring to the world of monetizing. Recently ABC reported, Pepsi announced that it would discontinue spending money on advertising on Super Bowl Sunday. I have for years thought that the price of advertising on that day … [Read more]

Filed Under: Business of Blogging, Monetization, People in Media, Social Media For Business, Traditional Media Debate, Why New Media? Tagged With: ABC, Advertising, Blog Monetization, blogging, Facebook, Ford, Forrester, Influencers, Pepsi, Super Bowl

Twitter Stepping Towards Commercial Accounts

By Tyler Knott Gregson on July 24, 2009

Looks like all that talking might actually be leading to some doing. That’s right, Twitter has finally taken its very first steps out of the world of the free, and into the world of the paid…kind of. Twitter has unveiled a new thing called Twitter 101, which is basically a series of web sites and … [Read more]