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Michael J commented on Chris O'Brien's blog post 'How Passion For Newspapers Points To A Way Forward'

@Cynthia, You've put into much better words, what I was trying to say. Thank you. Because printers and journalists/academics live in different 'tribes" some of the new technology and thinking in one have a hard time being heard in the other. Afte...

August 1

Michael J commented on Chris O'Brien's blog post 'How Passion For Newspapers Points To A Way Forward'

@Stephen @ Chris, Just to get this on people's radar, I would argue that print that at can produced economically for arbitrarily small groups of communities or interest and connect the real world to the virtual world through QR codes is, in fact, ...

August 1

Michael J commented on Chris O'Brien's blog post 'How Passion For Newspapers Points To A Way Forward'

Thanks for pointing to Who Shot the Paperboy. Great read. What she points to clarifies the real mass value of print. It helps deepen communities by acting as a token of that community. I have to disagree with the idea that news organizations have ...

August 1

Michael J commented on Chris O'Brien's blog post 'Heading This Week To The Knight Foundation's Future of News and Civic Media Conference'

I hope you'll have some time after to share the vibe and what's interesting in the conversation. Of course, I am especially interested in print focused stuff. I've been floating the idea of "clickable print." The idea is connecting a story with a ...

June 16

Michael J commented on Chris O'Brien's blog post 'Lessons from the INMA World Congress'

Thanks for the post. In addition to the story telling part, the fact remains that news-on-paper is still the most convenient way to find things that you don't know you were looking for. It could be a joke, a horoscope, a crossword or most likely a...

June 10

Michael J commented on Chris O'Brien's blog post 'The Future Of News In The San Francisco Bay Area Is Here'

Thanks for the post and thanks for keeping us up to date on how IDEO is adding their perspective to fixing newspapers sooner, rather than later.

May 28

Michael J commented on Chris O'Brien's blog post 'Innovation: Big Changes at Detroit Newspapers in Print and Online'

Thanks for the "working across the whole company" data. If the real problem is a product that no longer fits users lives, the design thinking approach could be the real secret sauce. Based on years of working with designers and clients, I've often...

May 5

Michael J commented on Chris O'Brien's blog post 'Innovation: Big Changes at Detroit Newspapers in Print and Online'

Given that they made the decision to work with IDEO I have a feeling everyone is going to be very surprised with what is going to happen in Detroit. I think it's going to be very, very good. Should be interesting to watch. From what I read, the p...

April 28

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At 5:45pm on January 6, 2009, Chris O'Brien said…: Michael: Thanks for joining the conversation. I'm just returning from my holiday hibernation. But just wanted to say: Welcome!