Month: May 2009

  • Just another victim of a shifting, churning landscape

    In honor of the hearings in the Senate on struggling newspapers, we offer up peoplereadingnewspapers.com, a thumbnail of one photo posted on the site is at right. “As a means of conveying news in a timely way, paper and ink have become obsolete, eclipsed by the power, efficiency and technological elegance of the Internet,” Sen.…

  • New food site smells good in the kitchen

    Influential tech site TechCrunch takes a look at Knoxville-based Scripps Networks‘ soft-launched Food.com, a beta search engine recipe site that TechCrunch heralds as the Kayak.com for recipes. I didn’t know Kayak.com was so ubiquitous to reach benchmark comparison status, but, hey, TechCrunch lives somewhere between Alpha and Beta so maybe Kayak seems like an old,…

  • Everything is broken about newspapers

    Seth Godin says his 2006 talk, “Everything is Broken,” still rings true for the most part. I think most of us would agree if business is getting smarter, they’re not sharing. Which let me to muse about what’s still “broken” (or maybe the most critically broken things) about newspapers? Mark Cuban says one is the…