Comments for joemichaud.com http://joemichaud.com Local Interactive Strategies Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Teens as future channel-surfers? I don’t think so by Dennis Gears http://joemichaud.com/2010/06/17/teens-as-future-channel-surfers-i-dont-think-so/#comment-309 Dennis Gears Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:13:50 +0000 http://joemichaud.com/?p=257#comment-309 I have a 15 year old daughter, a focus group of one. She left myspace at least 2 years ago and mainly chats with her close friends via FB chat. Does not use twitter. One thing the study states is she is tech savvy. I would love the definition of THAT. She does have her TV shows and watches them as she texts. Of course my expectation is that my flat screen Tv is going to morph into my computer screen and it isn't going to matter to me where/how the content comes from but that I have chosen it and I probably won't have to surf through all the lame stuff to get my content. I have a 15 year old daughter, a focus group of one. She left myspace at least 2 years ago and mainly chats with her close friends via FB chat. Does not use twitter. One thing the study states is she is tech savvy. I would love the definition of THAT. She does have her TV shows and watches them as she texts. Of course my expectation is that my flat screen Tv is going to morph into my computer screen and it isn’t going to matter to me where/how the content comes from but that I have chosen it and I probably won’t have to surf through all the lame stuff to get my content.

]]> Comment on Thank you, Steve Outing by joemichaud http://joemichaud.com/2010/01/03/thank-you-steve-outing/#comment-250 joemichaud Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:30:22 +0000 http://joemichaud.com/?p=196#comment-250 Watch out: Puns were my specialty as a headline writer. (they still talk about "Council Puts Foot Down On Dog Waste") Don't get me started! Watch out: Puns were my specialty as a headline writer. (they still talk about “Council Puts Foot Down On Dog Waste”) Don’t get me started!

]]> Comment on Thank you, Steve Outing by Steve Outing http://joemichaud.com/2010/01/03/thank-you-steve-outing/#comment-249 Steve Outing Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:48:38 +0000 http://joemichaud.com/?p=196#comment-249 Joe: Thanks much for the kind words! More on Digital Media Test Kitchen soon. Currently cranking up the engines ... umm, I mean heating up the ovens. I will try to resist using too many cliche cooking comparisons as the project heats up. 8^) Joe: Thanks much for the kind words! More on Digital Media Test Kitchen soon. Currently cranking up the engines … umm, I mean heating up the ovens. I will try to resist using too many cliche cooking comparisons as the project heats up. 8^)

]]> Comment on CNN/Money using Facebook Connect for comments by Hi http://joemichaud.com/2009/09/16/cnnmoney-using-facebook-connect-for-comments/#comment-222 Hi Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:13:29 +0000 http://joemichaud.com/?p=171#comment-222 The best part is, anyone could see your posts on CNN without you knowing it. And that includes your boss. The best part is, anyone could see your posts on CNN without you knowing it. And that includes your boss.

]]> Comment on Facebook Connect: comments breakthrough? by CNN/Money using Facebook Connect for comments « joemichaud.com http://joemichaud.com/2009/02/27/facebook-connect-comments-breakthrough/#comment-196 CNN/Money using Facebook Connect for comments « joemichaud.com Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:14:13 +0000 http://joemichaud.com/?p=87#comment-196 [...] in February, I suggested the new system could be a breakthrough for news site managers tired of all the anonymous trolls. [...] [...] in February, I suggested the new system could be a breakthrough for news site managers tired of all the anonymous trolls. [...]

]]> Comment on About Local Interactive Strategies by Meredith Strang Burgess http://joemichaud.com/about/#comment-188 Meredith Strang Burgess Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:27:20 +0000 #comment-188 HI Joe, I received your postcard announcing your MTI funded project. Very cool and congratulations!!! Hope you also can enjoy your summer! Meredith HI Joe,

I received your postcard announcing your MTI funded project. Very cool and congratulations!!!

Hope you also can enjoy your summer!

Meredith

]]> Comment on Local as an operating principle by joemichaud http://joemichaud.com/2009/03/20/local-as-an-operating-principle/#comment-173 joemichaud Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:07:46 +0000 http://joemichaud.com/?p=110#comment-173 Mike, thanks for the thoughtful comments. I think you're right that a lot of what's affecting newspapers is social dynamics, and somehow journalists need to adapt to these changes. Sorry, I'm not that Joe Michaud, but I'm glad the coincidence led you to comment. Mike, thanks for the thoughtful comments. I think you’re right that a lot of what’s affecting newspapers is social dynamics, and somehow journalists need to adapt to these changes.

Sorry, I’m not that Joe Michaud, but I’m glad the coincidence led you to comment.

]]> Comment on Local as an operating principle by Mike Greenberg http://joemichaud.com/2009/03/20/local-as-an-operating-principle/#comment-172 Mike Greenberg Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:44:45 +0000 http://joemichaud.com/?p=110#comment-172 I've been doing local journalism my entire professional life, first at Chicago Magazine, then briefly at D Magazine in Dallas, and then for 28 years as a critic and columnist at the San Antonio Express-News in my home town. Writing about local neighborhoods, urban design, architecture and general culture, I built a loyal readership among people who were engaged with their community. A lot of other journalists at my newspaper, and the newspaper itself, did, too. But it's my impression (and, I think, Putnam's) that the ranks of such community-engaged people have not been growing apace with the metro population, in San Antonio and in most rapidly growing metros, especially in the Sun Belt. The problem as I see it is not a decline of localism, but the relative decline of localities. That newspaper readership peaked in the late 1940s, together with Putnam's observation that civic engagement peaked in the mid-1960s, is suggestive. Although I won't blame suburbanization in itself, I think it is clear that the particular type of auto-dominant suburban development that began to emerge after World War II inhibited the knitting together of individual homes, businesses and institutions into neighborhoods, and of neighborhoods into cities. The kinds of relationships that Jane Jabobs described in the diverse, complex, functionally mixed environment of Greenwich Village (and that could also be seen to lesser but significant degree in pre-World War II suburbs) were not possible in the new suburbia of strictly segregated land uses, economically homogeneous residential pods and the difficulty of going anywhere at all without an automobile. The gated subdivisions that emerged in the 1970s exacerbated the problem. Most of the residents of the San Antonio metro now live in subdivisions that are have only a tenuous physical/geographic connection to adjoining subdivisions and the nearest strip mall -- much less to the city as a whole and to its historic core. Certainly many suburbanites do manage to participate in the life of the larger city, but such participation is much more difficult and infrequent now than it was when the larger city was close at hand. Not incidentally, the same geographical characteristics that inhibit the sense of community in the post-World War II suburbs have also increased the cost of delivering a physical newspaper. (Trucks have to drive farther to pass the same number of subscribers.) But the real reason I came to this site was to ask if you're the same Joe Michaud who was in my Outward Bound group in 1969. I’ve been doing local journalism my entire professional life, first at Chicago Magazine, then briefly at D Magazine in Dallas, and then for 28 years as a critic and columnist at the San Antonio Express-News in my home town. Writing about local neighborhoods, urban design, architecture and general culture, I built a loyal readership among people who were engaged with their community. A lot of other journalists at my newspaper, and the newspaper itself, did, too. But it’s my impression (and, I think, Putnam’s) that the ranks of such community-engaged people have not been growing apace with the metro population, in San Antonio and in most rapidly growing metros, especially in the Sun Belt. The problem as I see it is not a decline of localism, but the relative decline of localities. That newspaper readership peaked in the late 1940s, together with Putnam’s observation that civic engagement peaked in the mid-1960s, is suggestive. Although I won’t blame suburbanization in itself, I think it is clear that the particular type of auto-dominant suburban development that began to emerge after World War II inhibited the knitting together of individual homes, businesses and institutions into neighborhoods, and of neighborhoods into cities. The kinds of relationships that Jane Jabobs described in the diverse, complex, functionally mixed environment of Greenwich Village (and that could also be seen to lesser but significant degree in pre-World War II suburbs) were not possible in the new suburbia of strictly segregated land uses, economically homogeneous residential pods and the difficulty of going anywhere at all without an automobile. The gated subdivisions that emerged in the 1970s exacerbated the problem. Most of the residents of the San Antonio metro now live in subdivisions that are have only a tenuous physical/geographic connection to adjoining subdivisions and the nearest strip mall — much less to the city as a whole and to its historic core. Certainly many suburbanites do manage to participate in the life of the larger city, but such participation is much more difficult and infrequent now than it was when the larger city was close at hand. Not incidentally, the same geographical characteristics that inhibit the sense of community in the post-World War II suburbs have also increased the cost of delivering a physical newspaper. (Trucks have to drive farther to pass the same number of subscribers.)

But the real reason I came to this site was to ask if you’re the same Joe Michaud who was in my Outward Bound group in 1969.

]]> Comment on Local as an operating principle by Howard Owens http://joemichaud.com/2009/03/20/local-as-an-operating-principle/#comment-136 Howard Owens Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:30:33 +0000 http://joemichaud.com/?p=110#comment-136 That's very nice, Joe, thank you. That’s very nice, Joe, thank you.

]]> Comment on All that paper in the mailbox by Stop the presses? Dumb ideas refuse to die. « joemichaud.com http://joemichaud.com/2007/12/10/all-that-paper-in-the-mailbox/#comment-100 Stop the presses? Dumb ideas refuse to die. « joemichaud.com Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:00:58 +0000 http://joemichaud.com/2007/12/10/all-that-paper-in-the-mailbox/#comment-100 [...] Stop the presses? Dumb ideas refuse to die. So it looks like this will be an annual thing. Every year around this time I will repeat my counter-intuitive  statement that newspapers are making a tremendous mistake when they talk about dropping print and going online-only. Here’s last year’s rant. [...] [...] Stop the presses? Dumb ideas refuse to die. So it looks like this will be an annual thing. Every year around this time I will repeat my counter-intuitive  statement that newspapers are making a tremendous mistake when they talk about dropping print and going online-only. Here’s last year’s rant. [...]

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