As one who spends an ever expanding amount of time dealing with such creatures, I found Shane Richmond piece on trolls an excellent read and with a pointer to another nice read by Paul Graham. Finding a balance between robust...

Today would be a good day to do a Kiva update. I’ve written about it a couple times before in “Spare change can change the world” and “Grassroots lending Web style.” Kiva is a non-profit that makes micro-loans to entrepreneurs...

I hadn’t heard it put this quite this way, but it’s a great way to thinking about a news site: Be the first and last word on a story. That’s a slightly re-spun version of something Andy Dickinson credited earlier...

Dave Cohn’s right, it’s about individual transformations. See why.

Thought for the day: Lose your institutional memory in order to remember what you’re doing Pat Thornton, a Web content editor at Stars and Stripes, compares two University of Tennessee journalism efforts. See how they fared. If there was ever...

Now that’s a thought, but Reqall is not for me.

Pat Thornton says newspapers, rightly I believe, need to let some niches go. Many newspapers have been shrinking in recent years, yet they are still trying to cover as many beats and put out similar levels of copy. Does anyone...

Steve Outing, whose has got something going with Techgrl and who has a nice start with growingyournewswebsite.com, has yet another site in development, ReinventingClassifieds.com. He’s looking for people in classifieds or at media companies who make strategy decisions involving classifieds...

The YouTube effect on the presidential campaigns continues to be among the more interesting innovations in the 2008 campaign. Fred Thompson used YouTube effectively -- maybe he thought he was going to run from the YouTube video “porch?” Then there...