A hectic time of year

In true form I haven’t posted in over a month, the past weeks have been non-stop and even when I wanted to blog I lacked either the time or energy to sit down and think about it. Christmas and New Year has been a welcome break from work, even if only for a few hours here and there. 

2009 is set to be an interesting year given the financial crisis and the inauguration of Barack Obama in the coming weeks. 

I think 2009 will be a good year for technology companies, especially those working in web services, as companies withdraw from print advertising and seek more measurable options they will increasingly turn to the web to reach their audiences. This is not going to help the print industry, given an accelerated decline in advertising, unless there is more effort put into discovering new revenue streams and changing their business models. This was a key discussion during Asian Publishers Conference in August ‘08 and certainly rings true now. 

Only time will tell.