October, 2011

B2B Memes

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Breaking News: People Who Like Print, Like Print

B2B Memes

There’s been a minor buzz this week in B2B circles about recent survey results suggesting that paper magazines and newsletters remain extremely important to business professionals. I’m sure it’s true. I’m also sure it’s not very meaningful. Just because you like something doesn’t mean it’s not dead. The findings are from Readex Research , and are based on a series of media usage surveys conducted over the last year or so.

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Swabbing the Decks of the Titanic: Why You Should Learn Programming

B2B Memes

Last week journalism professor Matt Waite wrote a blog post worrying about the typical defeatist reaction of journalism students when faced with a coding challenge, whether in HTML, JavaScript, or other language: “I can’t do this,” they tell him. “This is impossible. I’ll never get this.” When I tweeted a link to the article, I wrote “”Journos: If you fear coding, you fear the future.”.

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Connecting the Dots from Steve Jobs to Me

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“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” —Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech , 2005. Steve Jobs and I were classmates at Reed College —we both matriculated in September 1972. I didn’t know him: he lived across the campus in the Old Dorm Block, while I was in one of the newer and more institutional cross-canyon dorms (later wisely demolished).

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Worried That Journalist Robots Will Replace You? Say “I”

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They are not going away. After a flurry of attention last year , we hadn’t heard too much in the interim about the robots that were going to displace humans as content creators. Then last month, Steve Lohr of the New York Times revived the issue. Although the natural reaction of writers and editors might be fear, I think that’s the wrong reaction. The robots aren’t going to replace us, they’re going to free us.

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Is the Distinction Between Consumer and B2B Media Still Meaningful?

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Writing this week in Folio: , Matt Kinsman asks “Why Do Consumer Stars So Often Fail to Shine in B-to-B?” It’s no criticism of Kinsman, whose work I admire, that after reading this piece I could only ask in return, “who cares anymore?”. In his article he reflects on the departures of Richard Beckman and Michael Wolff from trade publisher Prometheus Global Media.

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