Decentralized processes are counter-intuitive. Having a single institution promise to cover “all the news that’s fit to print” seems more reliable than having a bunch of random bloggers cover the news in an uncoordinated fashion. The problem is that, in...

Dave Winer on Twitter:  I wonder why press people have trouble seeing that news is what’s happening there. Sure there’s a lot of other stuff on Twitter – they focus on that instead. I leave it to the investigative journalists...

Maybe the best lesson I learned during the long newspaper war in Anchorage was this: if you come across a good idea elsewhere, consider stealing it. If the good idea shows up in the competition, steal it immediately.

Interesting open record, government transparency efforts of “local blogs that do a great job of covering local, state, and congressional political news” from around the country.

Another HDR photo from Gulf Shores. This was taken late yesterday afternoon. Shot from room balcony.

Love this quote gem from Avinash Kaushik: Back in the 1980’s Jan Carlzon was trying to breathe new life into an ailing Scandinavian Air Services. He was famous for saying “You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can...

An HRD photo taken this morning at Gulf Shores, Ala. More on flickr.

Maybe there’s something to this Kindle thing. People willing to pay for news content who wouldn’t subscribe to a print newspaper. And geeks like it. Remember, we’re at version two. Most technology products don’t really get prime time until version...

There was a good bit of discussion at an American Press Institute workshop on Friday at Middle Tennessee State University on what business models will work for newspapers even as we see newspapers that aggressively embrace the Web struggling or...

Americans overwhelmingly support President Obama’s order that federal agencies must show a “presumption in favor of disclosure” when asked to open government records to the public, an order issued during his first full day in office. But a survey of...