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...

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Baron, The: The Complete Series Batman:Motion Picture Anthology (Blu-Ray) (#19 in the DVDPS Top 40) Best Years, The: Season #1 Boy In The Striped Pajamas, The Caroline In The City: Season #2 Family Ties: Season #5 Get Smart: Season #2 Girls Next Door, The: ...

AWARDS aren't important, the losers always say. They will applaud politely, fixed smile on their faces, while all the time being secretly gutted it wasn't their name called out. Awards aren't important, the winners always say. They will feign surprise, look all bashful, while all the tim...

Traditional Media in Transition chronicles the challenges and innovations undertaken by leaders in media, entertainment and technology. In this premiere episode of Traditional Media in Transition, the Hard Rock International, a 35-year-old brand, takes its eclectic Americana for a wild ride through ...

H+ is a new quarterly magazine available in PDF format, and in digital version. [hat tip to Barry Ritholtz and Chris Grayson] It covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing — and will change — human beings in fundamental ways. The magazine seems to be following up on ...

Erin pointed me at Stephen Hume’s column in the Vancouver Sun from earlier in the week. With a certain “you kids get off my lawn” charm, Mr. Hume protests a little too much about the rise of new media: Meanwhile, blogosphere chatter responds with gleefully patronizing pronouncement...

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...

TRINITY Mirror really must be in trouble. Why else would chief executive Sly Bailey agree to give her first ever TV interview? And she wasn’t even given top billing by Jeff Randall Live, no, that went to Michael Grade from ITV, another company gripped by share terror Randall didn’t miss a trick ...

The latest episode of the Association for Downloadable Media (ADM)’s “Get The Download” podcast series is worth taking time to listen. The program covers much of the nuts and bolts of finding advertisers or sponsorships to monetize your Internet video creations. Interviewer Cathy B...

Our web videos for DeWalt's kick-ass contractor-grade drills are officially up on their website. Mad, filthy props to our production team for bringing these together - and to our homies at DeWalt for letting us take them in some interesting directions. A few from their YouTube page... Stats:Producer...