Mike Davidson is founder and CEO of Newsvine, which was recently acquired by msnbc.com, invented sIFR, a technology which has enabled tens of thousands of designers to beautify the web with tens of thousands of typefaces, led the redesign of the first major media site to support web standards, ESPN.com in 2003, has no tolerance for the intolerance of imperfection on the web, and went to school with Leonardo DiCaprio and appears adjacent to him in their 3rd grade yearbook!
That’s one hell of a resume. In his blog, MikeIndustries, Mr. Davidson recently recounted the akward situation where, “while we were toiling away, our friends upstairs at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer received their unemployment orientation in advance of being laid off two weeks from now”. Newsvine and the Seattle P-I apparantly shared the same building. This interesting blog post also touches on Mr. Davidson’s personal belief that he’s “not super optimistic about the future of a lot of these newspaper companies, but I really would love to see them at least replaced with something better”.
Mr. Davidson also offers tips on saving, not newspapers, but long-form journalism and local reporting. Check out the entire post entitled Last-Rites on his site.
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