The First Penny Problem

Lately there’s been a lot of hullabaloo on whether newspapers can rescue their dying print divisions by erecting subscription barriers to their online visions. Will readers subscribe?  How much does the reader value the journalistic integrity of these publications over their blogging brethren, and will that be enough to support the massive editorial departments they[…]

Thanks for following! Looking forward to getting to know you. How’s business?

I got this Direct Message about 9 hours after I followed someone on Twitter recently.  Let’s call him “Twidiot,” for short.  You’ll see why in a second. I first found Twidiot’s stream when he followed our corporate account, @conductorinc, – and when we followed him back, we received a personal response.   “Thanks for following![…]