Month: May 2010

  • Totally out of the box: Make relevance a measure of journalistic quality

    Image via CrunchBase Ben Elowitz, an entrepreneur known for founding a retail site, has fashioned “four new rules” of quality for publishers. His list: Relevance Make experiences, not content P.O.V. Distribution It’s a decent attempt at redefining what to measure to align the characteristics of “quality” with actions likely to lead to success. There certainly…

  • Nashville flood cleanup: Sunny days but still a wet disaster

    Photo taken Sunday morning on Second Avenue between Church Street and Broadway in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Lots of workers were on the job just a bit down the street as the cleanup from the May 1-2 floods in Nashville and Middle Tennessee continues. Some more photos on Flickr. Help out by donating to the Community…

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    I am really surprised to see how the mainstream media is pretty much ignoring the massive flooding in Nashville…Thu May 06 14:14:31 via webMeghan McCainMcCainBlogette The complaint that the national news media underplayed coverage of the Tennessee flooding and two dozen deaths in Middle and West Tennessee has a familiar ring. The exact same complaint…