Max Gladwell

Embracing location-based services (LBS) could be the last best hope for local and regional publishers It goes without saying that newspaper publishers are suffering. The steady decline in relevance and revenue began in the ’90s with the rise of the Web. This accelerated with Web 2.0 and the Great Recession. The final nail in the [...]

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Fox News recently did a feature story on Zumbox, the paperless postal system. The story was syndicated nationally and internationally through Fox television affiliates (TV and Web). The piece focuses on municipal adoption of Zumbox in San Francisco, which was spearheaded by the City’s forward-thinking Mayor, Gavin Newsom, and its Department of the Environment. The [...]

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Editor’s note: This is the first guest post from Paul “GreenSmith” Smith, a sustainability consultant and prolific green business blogger. Paul is a longtime friend of Max Gladwell and writes frequently for Triple Pundit and Ecopreneurist, two of our favorite blogs. But the easiest way to reach the legendary GreenSmith is to follow him on [...]

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Society needs professional, objective sources of political reporting that don’t rely on advertising. It also needs the Fifth Estate. Our post on the Fourth Estate and the fate of newspapers made the case that a vibrant, independent Press is vital to our democracy and that we should possibly re-think the current model. We didn’t point [...]

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The Fourth Estate is fundamental to our government and democracy. Newspapers may not need a bailout, but they do need a serious re-thinking. This is the second in our series on The New Media Landscape, where we’ll explore the fate of newspapers. Starting things off on a lighter note, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart [...]

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