I’m getting first hand experience at a lobbying effort by progressives aimed at one of the Associated Press’ top Washington journalists. Long-time activist/journalist Al Giordano of “The Field” blog, among other projects, is taking the campaign against Ron Fournier,...
Scott Karp, founder of Publish2, explains the power of “link journalism” using a roundup of Vol coverage we did Monday. The concept is so counter-intuitive (create outbound links to generate inbound traffic) that news sites for years were loath to...
Dan Traveling has done a video on a couple of my favorite potters, Terry and Anna King of King’s Pottery outside of Seagrove, NC. Fine folks. I think I was in the same high school graduating class as Terry at...
I missed this in August from Rich Gordon:
On the Web, though, newspapers have clearly emphasized news first. Which is a big part of the reason why so few people visit newspaper Web sites.
Mike West:
Every millionaire I’ve met has a longer list of failures than successes. If you’re always winning, then you aren’t competing against people better than you. And that means you never get better.
I’m beginning to wonder if landline phones are needed in newsrooms? A new Nielsen Mobile study indicates that one in five U.S. wireless households could be wireless-only by the end of 2008. Already 20 million households, or 17%, are abandoning...
These are links I’m sharing during a visit to a class on “Civic Engagement” at the University of Tennessee this afternoon. I’m supposed to talk intelligently (always a challenge) about the changing ways young people get information, the connection between...
Like a present, Steve Rubel on “personal knowledge management” with GMail.
Some coverage of the APME conference where I was earlier this week.