Continuing a theme from a Sunday post, here’s some more views on how journalists might be compensated in a digital world where every click is a metric: Patrick Beeson: “I’m not sure dangling CPM as a sole means for earning...
Goodbye to the Cincinnati Post.
Update: Looks like the link died with the end of the JOA last night. There’s alwaysGoogle.
My favorite list of Top 10 stories for 2007. East Tennessee is certainly a contender for the title of “Home of the Weird Story.”
When people need answers, most turn to the Internet, but don’t turn out the lights at the public library. Eighteen to 29-year-olds, known of Gen Y’ers, are the heaviest users of libraries for problem solving information, says a new Pew...
College bowl coverage by college journalists. Bryan Murley says the best is in Kansas.
Career columnist Penelope Trunk blogs her firing from Yahoo!. There’s a tremendous outpouring in the comments as well as some catty ones there and on Valleywag.. She says she was fired because her column commanded low advertising rates. So reporters...
Paul Steiger’s been in journalism a wee bit longer than I have and his reflections on how newspapers have changed in 41 years is a fascinating read. Steiger is stepping down as managing editor of the Wall Street Journal. ...
A couple of quotes from a Washington Post story: The [recording] industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer. Copying a song you bought is “a nice...
On Thursday I hung out at the family business in North Carolina for a short while. It’s a custom injection molder (makes plastic stuff). As such, it makes parts and assembles products for a number of different customers. One of...
A checklist and a contest for the technologically impaired journalist. No cheating with a 13-year-old.