Journalism, Technology, History

Michael Wolff says: Just Do it!

For all of us in the actually Internet news business (as opposed to people in the business of putting up stuff from another news medium on the Internet), the other guys charging for content is what we’re waiting for. It’ll...

The next logical step to FOIA: POIA

There’s new open data, government transparency effort. Find out more about POIA in this Sunlight Foundation video. Related articles by Zemanta

AOL's Seed and "bionic journalism" explained

AOL has built a three legged stool to create content: part professional, part freelance, and part aggregated . . . but its model is far more hand-crafted than the other new players in the mass content creation space. “The essence...

Engel Stadium: Down in the last inning

It is great to see a group of people are trying to save Chattanooga’s historic Engel Stadium, the second oldest minor league baseball stadiums in America and one that is on the National Register of Historic Places. It’s an 80-year-old,...

Knoxville video has gone viral

TV reporter Gordon Boyd’s unfortunate “technical difficulties” have gone “randomly viral” on YouTube. The big social media blog Mashable linked to it today and the YouTube video has topped 137,000 views since being posted on March 5, 2010. Here is...

Make it a talker

I want to give you more, not less. I don’t think McDonalds will assume that as long as you keep it in a yellow box, people will buy a smaller, drier Big Mac. Yet our industry seems to think people...

If we could only get you to screw off more at work

… and at home, too, for that matter. However, visitors to online newspaper sites don’t spend a lot of time there. The average amount of time looking at online news is about 70 seconds a day, while the average amount...
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