Woody Lewis is a Social Media Strategist and Web Architect. He authors a blog at woodylewis.com about social media strategy for newspapers. These days, everyone knows that one of the hottest stories any newspaper can cover is that of its own demise. The collapse of print advertising and the downturn...

San Francisco Chronicle journalists are trying to talk investors into buying the foundering daily newspaper and restructuring it as a nonprofit, writes the SF Appeal. Who are the ink-stained wretches courting? The editorial workers would invest some of their own money, a Guild representative told th...

Hi, I am trying to relocate my Darkroom from New York city to Calcutta in India. In NYC I've been using tap water straight with a particulate matter filter for all my printing needs and have never seen ......

It’s time for another edition of The First Time News Was Fit To Print, where we travel into the archives of The New York Times and find the first time the paper covered various subjects. If you have a suggestion for a future installment, leave a comment. Automated Teller Machines October 9, 19...

  I may have moved to the worst city—ever!—for dating, but at least it's the manliest based on "the number of U.S.-made cars driven in the city, number of sports bars and BBQ restaurants, number of home improvement and hardware stores as well as manly salty snacks consumption."...

In your philosophical Friday media column: arm-twisting at the San Francisco Chronicle, intellectual thuggery at the NAACP, body-slamming of college papers, and death and rebirth of reporters: Even as it's busy shutting down the Seattle paper and (maybe) combining some papers in Texas, Hearst has fo...

Hold the front page! The printing presses are rolling and will not stop any time soon. The Age of Quantitative Easing has begun in Britain, and true to our swashbuckling past, it’s the real thing. Fiddlesticks to purchasing assets by issuing gilt-edged bonds that add to the National Debt. That...

The problem with “unfilmmable” pieces of literature is that they usually wind up getting filmed anyway. Everyone, as late as 1999, said the Lord of the Rings trilogy was unfilmmable because of the fantastic characters that inhabited the story and, indeed, the scope of the story itself. E...

The other day a vendor called to ask if I could verify which of its competitors were or were not going to AIIM/On Demand. They seemed to be considering a last-minute reduction in booth size, bringing less stuff, or maybe even bailing all together. They weren’t the only ones. I’ve been ge...

Image via CrunchBase Read: E-Commerce News: E-Commerce: Amazon: Only Copyright Holders Can Unzip Kindle's Lips.This is an interesting debate that once again shows that many rights holders will need some serious hand-holding when it's about understanding new technological implementations. I t...