Wade Coleman's Blog

Kindle: Awesome, but no newspaper savior

2009-05-17T11:00:00-04:00

I finally took the plunge and bought an Amazon Kindle last month. The verdict: extremely cool with a few minor annoyances. With a $360 price tag and certain limitations, it’s an early adopter gadget. Even so, I think it’s a...

News links for the week of April 13, 2009

2009-04-19T23:21:53-04:00

Here's a collection of the pr and media industry articles I found interesting over the past week. Twitter continues to be a news phenomenon. Greg Galant has an interesting op-ed in PR Week, "How Twitter saved public relations from PR."...

Hope springs eternal...

2009-04-07T21:05:43-04:00

Interesting article from Forbes: as the media swoons, journalism schools are booming. It names several programs seeing double digit gains in admissions. Most journalism students aren't in it to make big piles of money in the first place but you...

Brave new world: media and PR must accept new realities

2009-03-25T01:25:39-04:00

I think some people reading my blog might think that I take a macabre delight in watching the downward death spiral of newspapers. I certainly don’t – it sucks when anyone loses their job. I understand the feelings of anxiety...

Sign of the times

2009-03-11T20:36:05-04:00

How bad is it for newspapers? Paper mills are laying off because of lack of demand for newsprint. Apparently it's not an isolated trend... a quick google search found a number of other recent paper producers scaling back as well....

Site update and new RSS feeds

2009-03-07T22:02:30-05:00

As you will undoubtedly have noticed, I have refreshed the blog with a new design and name: Unfit for Print. Kinda catchy I think. The URL for now stays the same but the RSS and email feeds will be shifting...

How bums make me think of social media

2009-01-14T19:57:04-05:00

I went on a kick a couple of years ago, trying to use public transportation to commute to work. It lasted about two months - I tried, it sucked, and I quit. There's usually at least one homeless person on...

Goodbye dead tree media

2008-12-19T06:00:00-05:00

The Tribune Company, publisher of the LA Times and Chicago Tribune, sought bankruptcy protection last week, despite Sam Zell's attempt to right the ship. Mark Gimein writes in Slate that "cutting-and-consolidating, the model that's worked for Zell before, isn't enough...

Outsourcing the news

2008-10-22T22:50:59-04:00

I know it’s been a long time since I’ve posted but I’m still here. I don’t really have much of an excuse except that I’ve been busy and I’m lazy…. anyway, this article in USA Today broke me out of...

What can be learned from InfoWorld's online transition

2008-06-15T14:26:54-04:00

I've been pretty tardy on the blogging lately, what with my real job and actually having a social life and all. I've seen a lot of stuff I've wanted to write about in the last two months and I've been...