Author: Jack Lail

  • Life measured in bytes

    The running total of my ever-growing digital footprint … ReadWriteWeb explains it.

  • Humming along with Count Basie

    Blogger, consultant and inveterate Twitterer Stowe Boyd says hopes of a newspaper return to better, happier days are but melodic dreams of the Benny Goodman era. He finds the pessimism in a David Carr piece on the industry in the New York Times not near pessimistic enough. In that piece, long-time newspaper analyst John Morton…

  • There will be reporters for at least 60 years

    Steve Boriss writing at Pajamas Media says reporters are a dying breed and that’s a good thing. They are mere “unnecessary recyclers of news.” The downfall of the reporter it seems, it that she turns out to be human, “the public increasingly understands that reporters are often biased and inaccurate, just like the rest of…