The Tampa Bay Times has hired Autonomy to clean up its dog’s breakfast of a website, according to a press release heavy on techno-journo jargon: Autonomy, an HP Company, today announced that the Tampa Bay Times, Florida’s number one newspaper, has selected Autonomy’s Web Content Management (WCM) solution to power its website, tampabay.com. The Tampa Bay Times will use Autonomy Intelligent Data [...]
Jen Holloway, Bright House spokeswoman and former Bay News 9 anchor charged with DUI Sunday in Polk County, according to arrest records. Holloway is reported to have had a blood alcohol level of 0.183, recorded on a breath test, and also failed field sobriety tests. According to Polk County Sheriff’s Office deputies, Holloway’s car was [...]
My friend Darden Rice asked a pretty direct question at last week’s Suncoast Tiger Bay forum on ‘new media vs. traditional media’ about why there weren’t any women on the panel. Because I helped organize the panel and value Darden’s opinion, I followed-up with her and asked her to expand upon her question, so that [...]
Today is a big day for Tampa Bay’s media community: Journalists from four continents converge today on the Tampa Bay Times Forum for their first look at the view they will have of the Republican National Convention. – I am not ready to agree with his suggestion that the organization should be named Visit Tampa Bay, [...]
David Westin, president of ABC News from 1997-2010, in forthcoming book “Exit Interview”: “Following a tradition, ABC News invited all of the candidates in for informal, off-the-record conversations in the summer and fall of 1999 … All of the candidates, including the vice president, accepted our invitation — all but one. Mr. Bush’s people said [...]
H/t to Jim Romensko, who notes that the Rep. Norm Dicks reference was eventually taken out and the headline changed to this.
Yesterday’s panel on ‘new vs traditional media‘ — or ‘me versus everyone else’ as Creative Loafing framed it — has me thinking about new things, in so many new directions. Even though I was on the panel, I guess I benefited as much as anyone from the discussion. One of ideas I’ve been thinking about since [...]
While sitting on the sidelines of today’s Suncoast Tiger Bay Club meeting, listening to local panelists discuss “Traditional Media vs. New Media,” it became crystal clear that Marshall McLuhan’s prophetic phrase, “The medium is the message” first published in 1964 had become a reality far beyond anything McLuhan could have possibly imagined. The panelists for [...]
Make plans to come to Tiger Bay today for a panel of leading experts who will discuss the old v. the new media and how it is transforming our political campaigns. Radio was the first major change and then along came television and it turned the political world upside down. Remember the 1960 presidential debates? [...]
Julian Sanchez notes that any “commenter on politics or public affairs whose audience reaches a certain size gets a level of feedback—via email, Twitter, blog posts and comments — that would have been unthinkable for any but the few most prominent public intellectuals a generation ago.” Um, yes. I like to remark that the most interesting reading [...]
