The Canadian arm of professional services firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers today announced a series of business podcasts which explores “key issues” affecting businesses during an economic downturn. The podcast series, “Strategy Talks,” shares strategies companies can use to address the problems facing companies today. The episodes will feature interviews with PwC “thought leaders” about the recession, […]

Information released this morning by digital measurement company ComScore says that people’s use of mobile devices for accessing news and information on the Internet “more than doubled” from January 2008 – January 2009. Over a third (35 percent, or 22.4 million) of the 63.2 million people who accessed news and information on their mobile devices […]

The Blubrry PowerPress plugin for WordPress version 0.7.1 is now available. The latest version includes a large number of new features as well as bug fixes. New Features: Simple/Advanced Modes Simple Mode is perfect for podcasters just starting out Advanced Mode includes additional settings, tools and features. Enhanced iTunes Summary option (learn more) Create Unlimited […]

Local news as we know it is dead. But that’s not the biggest problem facing newspapers today.  A bigger problem is that most readers are telling their local newspapers “I’m just not that into you”. According to the latest stats from Pew Research, fewer than half of Americans (43%) say that losing their local newspaper […]

Sirius announced plans today for an application to stream its satellite radio service to the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. Sirius XM CFO David Frear made the comments on its earnings conference call, which covered Sirius’ fourth quarter results. The company reported a fourth quarter net loss of $245.8 million on revenue of $644 million. […]

Matthew Davidson, a blogging graphic artist and musician, made this great statement at his Stretta blog: Technology decimates media in the order of bandwidth. First, newspapers, periodicals, books. Text and pictures compress tightly, and are low bandwidth. Next comes audio. After that comes video. It’s a interesting statement, especially when you see the carnage going […]

Podcasting pioneer and author Michael Geoghegan contacted us this morning with awful news: Brian Clark, a great friend and partner in GrapeRadio.com was involved in a horrible car accident in Central California last Friday. He is currently in the ICU and has received in excess of 13 units of blood and platelets. Many of you […]

John Hirst, head of global content and podcasts with the UK’s Global Radio group, says that podcasting has the potential to “create new and lucrative revenue streams” for newspaper, radio and television businesses. Global Radio has over sixty stations throughout Great Britain, including syndicated brands Capital Radio, Classic FM and LBC, and purports to have […]

The problem with newspapers is that they’re stuck on the old model, where every newspaper covers everything. And the more important the story, the less efficiently it gets covered.

But, it’s not just newspapers, it’s local radio & TV, too.

Local media is dead. Radio, TV, newspapers – all of it.

Here’s why.

https://videopress.com/v/Pk6aHQhX IntenseDebate, a hosted comment platform for WordPress comments, has announced that it’s opened the platform to third-party plugins. As part of the introduction, IntenseDebate has introduced several plugins: PollDaddy: Readers will be able to create polls right in the comment section. Seesmic: Readers the ability to record and post video comments. YouTube: Commenters can […]