Journalism, Technology, History

Cash potential

Keep repeating, there is no blogging “A-list.” Knoxville’s Glenn Reynolds and several others could have been included in the BusinessWeek slide show above among those building audiences, brands and businesses through their blogs. Seriously, A-list or not, among the wonderful...

Ya, Google!

Yahoo! has been taking its lumps in the last few months and there were rumors of a Yahoo-Microsoft combination as the only way to take on Google, but Robert Young, writiing on Publishing 2.0, comes up with six reasons why...

Just networkin'

Look out kid It’s somethin’ you did God knows when But you’re doin’ it again -- “Subterranean Homesick Blues” by Bob Dylan Jeff Pulver says he’s abandoning LinkedIn for Facebook to focus all his “professional business social networking contacts” while...

When news isn't bottled in an article

In a review of MaineToday.com’s refreshing redesign, Howard Owens have some good observations on news site design in general, particularly link bloat and internal politics that bewilder more than bemuse. One area he didn’t delve into is one we’re struggling...

Back what?

I was more than halfway there, but well, anyway. Back boobs? Did you say “back boobs?” I don’t read diet blogs, but this quote on Susan Mernit’s blog made me look: You know you are getting fat when you discover...

Chasing youth

Mark Potts is getting a lot of links today on his look back over the Backfence, but another jewel was his post last week on newspaper youth products, Dog Bites Man; Kids Don’t Care. In the not-to-do category, he says:...

Stand it on its head

Newspapers everywhere are trying to “transform,” “explode,” “re-org,” “downsize,” and generally rearrange the “deck chairs” on you know what. Here’s an idea of Melissa Worden:

The Dollar General store of Social Networking

In the continuing MySpace is so 2006 storyline, there’s a report that says that usage among the ever-fad-attuned high school crowd of Facebook is gaining ground while their usage of MySpace is declining. Net scoreboard comScore says in a new...
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