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Newspapers in Q1 2009: Full-circle
My first post on newspapers in 2009 went like this: I was horrified to find out yesterday that at least one Connecticut lawmaker is considering a government bailout of a newspaper. I'm still horrified...
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What would baseball fans do without newspapers?
When The Rocky Mountain News and Seattle Post-Intelligencer ceased their print editions, something happened that wasn't evident to either the save-the-newspaper or the dude-the-Web's-great crowd: fans...
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A look at Mine magazine from Time and Amex
I got my first issue of Mine magazine recently. This is an experiment in user-customizable content, an attempt to bring something the web offers to the print magazine format. There are a lot of web...
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Lessons from a young entrepreneur. Or whatever he is.
You might not recognize Chris Hughes' name (of course, you might). Even if not, you've heard of his work. In 2004, he was a sophomore at Harvard when, with a couple of three classmates, he launched a...
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More take-aways from Chris Hughes
Yesterday, I did sort of an entrepreneur-focused piece on Chris Hughes' visit to Syracuse. I went into the office (I work for syracuse.com, so the "we" and "our" refers to what we do there) and wound...
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The truth: The Internet is a great big rumor mill
I tend to check Google Trends in the morning. It's one of the things I do in terms of a morning coffee ritual when I get to work. For those not familiar, it's a list of the things people are searching...
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The weight of books
I'm an avid reader. I haven't been moved to get a Kindle or a nook or any one of those other e-Reader deals, but I do have an iPod Touch (like an iPhone without the phone [or the camera]), and there is...
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In defense of content farms, sort of
On Friday of last week, Demand Media filed for an IPO. For those unfamiliar, Demand owns eHow, Answerbag, and a handful of other sites that offer content and advertising. Sounds like a newspaper or...
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Crowdsourcing news coverage: Springfield, MA tornado
This video has an AP logo on it, but that's primarily because it was shot from a camera that happens to overlook the Connecticut River in a television newsroom. I don't think it's significantly...
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Got passion? Good. Worry about content, not production value
Check out this video from strength coach Zach Even Esh. It's him holding a camera, pointing it at himself and his stuff. He's half-in, half-out of the frame much of the time. If you get motion...
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