October 19, 2007
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Taking the ournal out of journalism
John Scalzi: …so much of the advice boils down, essentially, to this: “become a starfucker for more popular bloggers.” Lots of great quotable shit. I like this: If you’re spending your time starfucking a blogger, your sense of priorities are unspeakably out of whack. It’s like sleeping with the screenwriter in Hollywood. The screenwriter… Continue reading
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Too much, already
At Chris Pirillo’s blog, John Blue asks, What does “innovation” really mean and what can I do to become “more innovative”? I have an idea but what do I do next? How do I find innovative people? How can my company be more innovative? In the comments I reply, Invention is what matters. … Continue reading
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The leading coast?
John Quimby asks, Why is Newspaper 2.0 still Newspaper 0.2? His bottom lines: Newspaper 2.0 might be coming soon, but we really won’t see what it looks like until 2.0 managers include video and audio as well as web design and graphic animation fully integrated on their pages. Since the entire concept of… Continue reading
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Been there, fun that
Enjoyed last night’s Bloggerdinnerbostonoct07. I brought my camera, but only took one picture, which isn’t even worth posting. That’s because it was too crowded for the lens I was using, at the places where I was standing; and also because the conversation was more important anyway. It was interesting to come to an East Coast… Continue reading
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Future to Newspapers: Jump in the river
Here’s the problem with most news: it isn’t. It’s olds. It happened hours ago, or last night, or yesterday, or last month, or before whenever the deadline was in the news organization’s current “news cycle”. It’s not now. Unless, of course, it’s been fed out through syndication and picked up by a news reader or… Continue reading