Jessamyn asks an important question about balancing income with rising health care costs. Many of us are making less now than we were a year or longer ago because of increased health care costs. How are rising health care costs going to impact a profession like ours that is already famous for low salaries?
is the people who find and contact me.
You’ll never guess who dropped me a line. I, of course, can’t name him publicly yet because of my own unwritten policy about naming people on my weblog. Let’s just say he was the 30th writer.
Now to work on Dusti.
Mark Glaser of the Online Journalism Review goes deeper into the discussion about whether news archives should charge money for their content.
New York Times Digital CEO Martin Nisenholtz observes that putting archives online for free might jeopardize contracts and revenues gained through the sale of archives to vendors like LexisNexis and Factiva.
Free archives can attract [...]
scratchpad reader Rich Allen dropped me a line to let me know the February issue of Walt Crawford’s Cites & Insights mentions this weblog several times.
The issue includes articles about blogging and republishing and Wikipedia. Crawford summarizes a number of recent articles and blog posts criticizing Wikipedia and the ensuing reaction.
I don’t drink coffee.
(Thanks, JVJ.)
Nice!
Carolyn Sosnowski selected an Online Journalism Review article about news archives for Wednesday’s Nexcerpt News Connections, which highlights Web resources of note to Special Libraries Association members. She observes that the OJR piece mentions the news archives on the SLA News Division Web site.
That section of the site requires lots of maintenance, so it’s nice [...]
My director sent a memo around asking everyone in the office to make a list of everything they’re working on. I thought about it while doing other tasks for about an hour. My biggest obstacles are where to begin and how to make sure it’s an inclusive list.
I think I’ll break the list into sections, [...]