This is one of those times when the clichéd Tale of Two Cities quotes comes to mind. I’ll save you the pain and skip it. Yeah, we get it, newspapers as we know them are in trouble. Just like the advent of the telegraph changed how news was gathered, transmitted and reported, the Internet has done the same for papers.
Who wants to buy a newspaper to read news that is often stale before the ink is dry? Certainly not for the classifieds, Craigslist took care of that nicely. Weekly fliers? [...]
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by Tris Hussey on December 12, 2009 · 0 comments
in Books, Cool tools, Daddy Wears Slippers to Work, Internet Life, News and Info, Social Media, Technology, Tips and Tricks, Vancouver Observer - Techplanations, Web 2.0
Things have been pretty active over on my Vancouver Observer column, Techplanations. WIth the holidays coming up I had to cover gift ideas for geeks: Getting Great Gifts for Geeks and since we all need to stop talking on our cellphones while starting in BC starting in January I have a review of some Motorola headsets and a contest to win a headset or hands free car device–Do You Have a Headset for Your Cell Phone?.
Because the column is about helping people use technology better (and fix it when it [...]
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I’m not sure if Rupert Murdoch is a brilliant business mind, just doesn’t get the Internet, or just plain nuts. Maybe buying MySpace was a good idea when News Corp bought it, but it certainly isn’t holding much value now. Now with his massive newspaper holdings also having trouble, if his papers are following all the other papers, he wants to remove his papers from the current market leader in search engines:
Yes, really. Rupert Murdoch’s crusade to blame Google for the failing newspaper business model continues today, as it emerges [...]
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Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
