Vin Crosbie

As managing partner of Digital Deliverance LLC and publisher of the "Digital Deliverance" newsletter, Vin Crosbie advises news media worldwide about new media strategies and tactics. As adjunct professor of visual and interactive communications and senior consultant for executive education in new media at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, he teaches that wisdom to graduate students and media company executives. "Folio" magazine called him "the Practical Futurist." "Editor & Publisher" magazine devoted the overview chapter of its executive research report "Digital Delivery of News: A How-to Guide for Publishers" to his work. And his speech about new media to the National Association of Broadcasters annual conference was one of 24 orations (including some by President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Hilary Clinton, and Barack Obama) selected by a team of speech professors for publication in the reference book, "Representative American Speeches 2004-2005."

Digital Media Comes of Age - It's time for media companies to stop treating digital media like a child. Jul 11, 2008

All Hail Individuated Media - How would you describe a medium in which each individual receives content that differs from other individuals -- and each person has control of selecting the content? Jun 27, 2008

Good Enough Triumphs Over Perfection - If your content isn't immediately online because you're waiting for perfection, get over yourself. Jun 13, 2008

It's Time to Sacrifice Mass Media's Sacred Cows - New media's replacing mass media, but not everyone grasps that. May 30, 2008

Four Excuses That Impede Change in Media Academia - Some excellent people think they're upholding tradition and discipline, but they're unwittingly working against their own army. May 16, 2008

Degrees in the Past - Ultimately, to change the media industries, we've got to change our universities. May 2, 2008

I Never Metadata I Didn't Like - Online retailers long ago discovered that including specific metadata greatly increases reach, traffic, and results. It's time online information companies discovered that, too. Apr 18, 2008

There's a Digital Sucker Born Every Minute - How an online publishing shakedown depresses the economic market for good writing and corrupts industries. Apr 4, 2008

Blowing Away Mass - Mass media's audience has always been fragmented. Why are media operators just figuring that out? Mar 21, 2008

Web 1, 2, and 3 - Three schools of thought on the three eras of publishing interactive online media. Mar 7, 2008