My take on the iPad: No Flash is foolish | Nanotech – The Circuits Blog – CNET News
My take on the iPad: No Flash is foolish | Nanotech – The Circuits Blog – CNET News. i agree. no matter if you love or hate flash as either a developer or a user, this whole thing is just plain silly.
Eat that fish: Not online or print, but how to work together
ASNE‘s annual meeting is happening this week in Washington. Several of my students have been there covering it. With low attendance at the conference, a lingering low pressure system of bleak industry news, hot new mobile devices on the market, and recent pew reports, it could be easy to argue that “print is dead” and [...]
don’t bash newsmedia as luddites, hackerjournos have advanced the art for years
i caught the first tweet on this article earlier this week and have waited to write on it. Will Columbia-Trained, Code-Savvy Journalists Bridge the Media/Tech Divide? | Epicenter | Wired.com. yes i love that columbia is doing this degree. it is rigorous and serious and lengthy. and i love that medill is successfully working with [...]
The Critical Mistake that Keeps Bloggers Broke | Copyblogger
Great, succinct post by Larry Brooks over at CopyBlogger that is a must read for all my students and colleagues, especially the ones who are either recently laid off from journalism or writing about how to “save journalism.” Your blog is a strategy, a branding and marketing vehicle, a means toward an end. Your business [...]
the big takeaway from #wjchat – journotaxonomy
I just got out of a really great twitter chat hashed wjchat that was pitched at web journalists and kicked off tonight. There were plenty of seasoned hacker journos there mingling with new and curious types who were online/social savvy so the pace was blisteringly brisk and friendly. In all a great chat, but there was [...]
The Impenetrable Layer of Suck
By Suw Charman-Anderson The Impenetrable Layer of Suck, a brilliant geo-visualization of a hilarious and insightful comment made by Peter Corbett (@corbett3000) of istrategylabs. Middle management generally seeks to entrench and justify existence by viewing knowledge as power. Top down organizational hierarchies and tall management structures have been proven time and again as inhibitors to [...]
Promising online news organizations – The hunt is on | Knight Digital Media Center
saw this retweeted a lot yesterday, so i wanted to check it out. Promising online news organizations – The hunt is on | Knight Digital Media Center. i think it is an admirable and well- intentioned effort, and i realize it is just getting started. i wanted to post this comment, but it didn’t quite [...]
Arianna's welcome to Tucker on dailycaller points out journolazy he said/ she said
I’ve linked up to and commented on Jay Rosen’s blog posts about He Said, She Said journalism before, and I will keep doing it because his bandwagon is playing the song I’ve sung for years. I think it is a rampant problem in the current state of affairs, one that many journalists are refusing to [...]
the rumpus.net facebook employee interview and your privacy
Interesting timing, I was scheduled to do a media interview on something related to how social media sites monitor groups and police them for dangerous, offensive or hateful content and this little nugget comes out. Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee – The Rumpus.net. The comments have a discussion going about how employees [...]
Columbus Day Letter to the Editors: It isn't Craig's fault
Today is Columbus Day. I’m a big fan of the guy and have always liked to celebrate the holiday for that reason, as well as the defacto Italian celebration that has linked up to it. I also like to celebrate Leif Erikson Day, which is October 9 – earlier than Columbus, since he got to [...]