Editor’s note: This is John Reinan’s weekly marketing column for MinnPost.com. To see the original, go to http://tinyurl.com/63jrge.
 Not a day goes by when I don’t think about how much the Internet has changed our lives. I think it’s the most amazing development I’ll see in my lifetime.
It’s why I left the newspaper business, and it’s [...]

As a former newspaper reporter and editor, I’ve been horrified at how quickly my old business is imploding. Five years ago, few people in newsrooms worried much about the Web. Three years ago, we became aware that it was nipping at our heels. Today, there are newspapers and TV stations whose very existence is being threatened by the [...]

In other words, why do ordinary citizens travel hundreds or thousands of miles at their own expense to wrestle with questions of media and society? I mean, I understand why they’d spend all that money and time on someting important like a baseball game, but this?
For Valerie Traina of Denver, it’s because of a passion for [...]

As a former print media person, I spend a lot of time thinking about the digital revolution, probably more than people who grew up in the digital age. For them, it’s always been part of the world — they don’t have anything to compare it against. I’m like a guy who grew up with horses, and [...]