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I'm Steve Yelvington, and this is my blog. I'm a lifelong journalist and now a strategist for a media company. These are my own thoughts.
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Early to the game but late to learn how to play

Tue, 01/06/2009 - 10:29am

Writing for Slate, Jack Schafer describes "How Newspapers Tried to Invent the Web But Failed." You new kids should read it carefully. Then get off my lawn. Schafer, who reveals he was offered a job...

Categories: Internet design, media, technology

Lee Enterprises: A poster child for the ownership crisis

Mon, 01/05/2009 - 8:24am

Newspapers face three different, but interrelated, economic challenges. One is the technology-driven restructuring of the news business, in which the Internet is a major force that is disintegrating...

Categories: Internet design, media, technology

Looking for good news

Fri, 01/02/2009 - 12:24pm

Jeff Jarvis has started a good conversation with a post titled "Bad news, good news" at Buzzmachine. In response to a comment that "The problem with the Good News is that newspapers can’t translate...

Categories: Internet design, media, technology

Another round of paid-content nonsense

Mon, 12/22/2008 - 2:34pm

Every nine months or so, some mossback proclaims -- in print -- that newspapers would be just fine if they'd stop giving away their content on the Internet. The latest is Stanford University...

Categories: Internet design, media, technology

Monitter test

Sat, 12/13/2008 - 12:54pm

Categories: Internet design, media, technology

SID says...

If I ran a bagpipe band, I'd call our first album The Scotch Tapes.