Month: February 2008

  • Who sucks worse: Newspapers or TV Stations?

    Commenting on a Broadcasting & Cable piece on the Web and TV stations, Angela Grant says: It seems like the attitude of TV stations towards the web, according to the article, is the same type of attitude that has sunk newspapers to the level they’re at today. We’ve both got to get to the bottom…

  • Turn it up

    Former WCPO-TV online manager Liz Foreman, a highly respected journalist who has been focused on online for years, gives a revealing glimpse of the differences between newspapers and TV stations in a Lost Remote posting yesterday. Now, director of multimedia initiatives at the Cincinnati Enquirer, Foreman outlines for TV colleagues some of the differences she’s…

  • Free my office apps!

    Following up on my mini-rant Sunday about Microsoft Office, is the Microsoft-Yahoo deal really about free software, or to use the buzz phrase, “zero-dollar” software? There’s more than zero in the deal, I’m sure (lots of zeros, it seems), but even if sales haven’t been affected yet, Web-based and open source alternatives like Open Office are clearly gaining…