Author: Jack Lail

  • Kara’s got a brand new toy

    Kara Swisher at WSJ’s BoomTown has a new HD Flip video camera. “The more Flips we have; the more fun we have.” I can get behind that one! I haven’t seen the HD version on Amazon yet so I’m assuming the BoomTown folks have a review one from the company. Katherine Boehret did a helpful…

  • Spot.Us spot-on

    Spot.Us – Community Funded Reporting Intro from Digidave on Vimeo. Dave Cohn has officially launched Spot.Us, a Knight News Challenge project in “community-funded journalism.” It’s sort of a Kiva.org for journalism. One of the buzzwords being used around the effort is “crowd funding;” another, “community funded reporting.” The New York Times explains it: The idea…

  • No squirming on the underwear issue

    Annette Moser-Wellman at Northwestern University recently did a telphone interview with me on my thoughts about a local news organization’s roles and, uh, the underwear problem. She writes: So whether it’s news, information or someone else’s news and information, serving the needs of your audience prevails.  Because when you become the trusted authority, you’ve built…