Archive for April, 2008
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
My friend Chris just posted this Washington Post article to Twitter, and I thought I'd blog a bit about it before I left.
The piece -- Friends Indeed? -- looks at the social networking from a different perspective than those of us who are steeped in it normally discuss: the downsides ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
I'm about to commit heresy. I'm going to be accused of breaking down the Church-State wall that has "existed" in journalism since the dawn of time. I'm going to anger old-school journalists (which is funny, since most people think I'm old school in terms of my reporting -- and attitude).
The ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Just because I think this is the coolest thing out there and I want one. Microsoft's table-top computer, brought to you by the Silicon Valley Insider.Check it out here.
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
CBS Interactive announced that it would reorganize its management structure on April 17 in order to build a better interactive experience for its users.One of the more telling moves, I think, is that Byron Rubin -- who worked in mergers & acquisitions (M&A) -- moves from CBS corporate to CBS ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
I forgot to include this scathing report from Alexander Vanelsas about social media, which mirrors -- and informs -- my little rant about the problem with technology overload.Read: The Noise in Web 2.0 is Mainly a Tech Elite's Problem.
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Last week was the most self-reflective I've seen the Web in some time. Apparently, the Web 2.0/social media phenomenon started to get to people.
The growth of mobile messaging groups, lifestreaming applications, Air desktop applications, audio and video services, aggregators, readers -- you get the idea -- has started to overwhelm ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
I've paid scant attention to the Newseum, a $450 million monstrosity that chronicles the history of journalism in the country -- at least so far as we're told.Newsweek has an insightful piece about the decision to build this during a time when 15,000 jobs have been eliminated in the past ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
I'm reading this recap of the Michael Tunison tale with a head shake.
The news aide was fired from the Washington Post after his editors found out -- and by found out, I mean they read his blog where the writer disclosed who he was -- that Tunison was blogging about ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
A friend of mine read this story in CNN and sent it to me."You have to write about this," she said, when she heard about my book idea. So, I'm writing about it. It's maybe the best use of a blog by the mainstream press that I've seen in some ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
I drove to Pittsburgh this weekend to meet with a friend, Cynthia, who is working out a business plan for a new type of media organization, who that isn't quite a local news organization, isn't quite a portal, isn't quite a social network and isn't quite an aggregator.
It's somewhere in-between ...
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