I have a confession to make, and I’m not proud to do it. My wife is a better blogger than me. Yes, my wife, who writes about how she hates blogging, posts far more frequently than I ever had, even when I had to blog for a class. In fact, I think my wife is [...]
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The Web on a cell phone? A dialogue
The Cyberbrains had the following discussion over e-mail the last few days (I know, we are so old school.) It all started when Clyde asked how Web pages looked on an iPhone and evolved into a treatise on the viability of the mobile web. It included Cyberbrains Clyde Bentley, Joe Kokenge, Jeremy Littau, Deborah Mason, [...]
McSneaks!
I wasn’t quite sure how to react when Clyde passed this link to me and the rest of the Cyberbrains. My wife was sitting next to me in our downstairs office / sewing room (She sews, not me!) and I didn’t want to break into histrionics. Besides, she’s an intelligent news consumer as well, with [...]
Standing behind what you print, even if you didn’t write it
Reviewing anything is a daunting task for a newspaper. Believe me - I know firsthand. After using a poor auto review from a wire service and losing our biggest advertiser at a weekly I helped I start, I don’t think I ran another review again. But newspapers and other media organizations cannot ignore reviews either. [...]
The New York Times as a digital playground
I’ve always agreed the New York Times is the standard bearer for American journalism. I’ve just never thought it lead the pack in online convergence. I remember some of the great old lady of journalism’s first online forays seemed amateurish. I worried that like, say Gannett, the Times’ editors were simply giving their reporters a [...]
‘Sphere’ of Influence
Despite their increased popularity and use, news organizations still struggle with how to handle blogs. Do you ignore or embrace them? Do you make all your reporters write one or do you rely instead on the blogs that are already out there? The best approach that media critics and scholars have suggested is finding a [...]
Don’t cry for the Times
For about a year, I felt like I was the sports king of the world. I had just won my newspaper’s fantasy football league. The Denver Broncos had just beaten the favored Green Bay Packers to win the Super Bowl, and I could follow it all with my new subscription to ESPN.com’s Insider package. Actually, [...]
The Amazon Model
Reading Jeremy’s last post about what newspapers could learn from Starbucks made me remember an article I read not too long ago about Amazon.com and its founder Jeff Bezos. What newspaper’s really need in a day when investors demands for more and more profit are forcing wholesale staff cuts is a man like Bezos who [...]
Mourning an online friend
It has been a while since I started this post but I just can’t seem to get Kasper ‘TaZz’ Kataoka Sorensen off my mind. I never met TaZz. I doubt that I ever even talked to him online. But I joined an online community hungry for any news about him at all a few weeks [...]
Learning to practice what I research
The unlikely bloggers - the guys like Ronny Abrovitz and Josh Marshall - have fascinated me for a long time. I’ve often wondered what motivates someone like them to go out on a limb and what it’s like to become a minor celebrity for it.
At this year’s AEJMC convention, I might have found those answers. [...]