Bob Cauthorn bashing newspaper industry

June 17th, 2005 * Comments(0)

Former head of the San Francisco Chronicle’s new-media division is on a rampage against newspaper companies and owners.
Truly interesting and energetic videocast from a presentation Changing Rules at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

His message in just a few words – Get rid of every editor, manager… in the newspaper business for failing to adapt to the new rules. The industry is following the same business model for more than a century. They are dinosaurs and the internet is not the only thing going against them.

 New Media Summer Public Lecture Series – Bob Cauthorn (quicktime stream)

 Other speakers (Dan Gilmor is in there as well)

 Poynter Institute report – He May Never Get a Newspaper Job Again!

One-fifth of Web users prefer online news

June 17th, 2005 * Comments(0)
A study from Nielsen//NetRatings found that 21 percent of those Web users now primarily use online versions of newspapers, while 72 percent still read print editions. The remaining 7 percent split their time between online and offline editions.

 Reuters report

Triathlon Ljubljanica 2005 (photos)

June 16th, 2005 * Comments(0)

A super sprint triathlon, three rounds of ~200m / ~5km / ~1km (swim/bike/run) with every round following a different order of events.

Storm brothers from Republic of South Africa dominated the event but someone did manage to squeeze between them for a second place overall.

The first race started out in dull overcast conditions, the second one had a little bit of sunshine then continued into a storm with rain falling sideways and finally the third that was blessed with a few more photons of sunshine again. A nice mix of weather conditions to make the race a bit more interesting.

I just wish I had an umbrella so my camera wouldn’t get all wet (sadly no weatherproofing)

       

pre race interviews, warm-up, first race

       

second and third race, run/bike transition,

       

 

winners

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