Month: June 2008

  • Seriously, I’m busy

    “We could put out the same paper with half has many people as we have now-but they’d have to be different people.” — A high-ranking editor to Mark Potts, who was writing on the “dirty little secret” of major metros.

  • A long tale, 140 characters at a time

    On what Ron Sylvester learned from Twittering a trial. One day, I cut and pasted all my “tweet” updates into a traditional story file.  It measured 80 inches.  Now, I don’t think anyone would have read an 80-inch story from the newspaper on this trial, as compelling as it was. My editors certainly wouldn’t have…

  • The new new thing is the new new thing

    If Feedfriend is the new Twitter, new Google; Facebook is the new ….?