Journalism, Technology, History

Stalking bad guys for good

I found this TechCrunch piece fascinating in how technology rapidly morphs itself. While people get all 1984 Orwellian about the implications of location-based services that utilize the GPS in a cell phone to beam out your location, here someone uses...

Hot tea and a good paper

Maybe newspapers need tea parties or pamphleteer meetups (with bloggers). Where all politics becomes local, the need for national leaders is less important and issues of great importance do not become a personification of them. I might add that the...

Watch this whacky case and hope for federal legislation

There’s a weird journalism law case going on Detroit that bears watching. Pulitzer Prize-winning Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter has been ordered to divulge his source for a story about a former federal prosecutor. The former prosecutor, Richard Convertino, claims...

The collectors

Paul Chenoweth coins a type of social media person, The Collectors. Collectors seem to be obsessed with acquiring the most friends/followers or network connections (depending upon the terminology within a particular online site). I know many of these individuals from...

The balancing act

Quick definition: “He said, she said” journalism means… There’s a public dispute. The dispute makes news. No real attempt is made to assess clashing truth claims in the story, even though they are in some sense the reason for the...

Going bats

Baseball bats in the Bearden dugout on Friday, April 10. Despite the storms, game got played.

Paid content: A growth limiting strategy

Vivian Schiller, CEO and president at NPR and the former head of NYTimes.com on paid news content. So I’m a little bit of a contrarian with some of those in the news industry who are saying it was a big...

Who knew, videos on YouTube are embeddable

AP needs to take a gun safety course before they start using their big guns; they’ve shot themselves in the foot again, again, again, again, again. (Damn, I’ve run out agains already). Way to hang in there Frank Strovel.
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