Trends: Electronic Paper

Consumer electronics makers have been working on electronic book readers for the good part of a decade, and in the last two years we’ve seen the release of the much-talked-about Amazon Kindle, as well a competing device from Sony. This week, we got news out of CTIA that both AT&T and Verizon are getting into [...]

Quick Tips: Don’t Forget Wikipedia

Yes, Wikipedia seems “so 2004,” what with today’s world of Facebook/Twitter battle in full swing, it seems Wikipedia has faded to the background.  Really, what has happened is that Wikipedia has become such a part of the internet “firmament” that we aren’t even consciously aware of how much many of us rely on it.
Yet, we [...]

Seattle P-I Goes “All Digital”

We’re not the first to say it, and we certainly won’t be the last, but today marks a milestone in journalism and publication: the last print edition of the Seattle P-I, only a few weeks from the shuttering of the Rocky Mountain News. We mourn these broadsheets for sentimental reasons, but what this moment marks is an interesting opportunity to observe a changing landscape. You see, there are several things that are different about the P-I that we in the communications business should watch closely.