[…] struggled to adapt to a world with fewer bill payments, personal letters, and packages, teetering on the brink of irrelevancy? Newspapers began to approach the day when blogs would be the only sources left to report the demise of newspapers? […]
Wikileaks teaches us a number of lessons, the most important being that the world will change, whether we like it or not.
The AP is taking on blogs. They won’t win by fighting.
Another scandal rocks medical journal publishing. It’s time to stop pretending journals can salvage this on their own. It’s time to bring modern solutions to bear.
“Toxie” is a story based on facts, and worth waiting for. Why can’t the news media return to telling it like it is rather than playing to the narrative?
[…] an exiting thing is produced. This resulted, eventually, in mass literacy, enabled the creation of new information formats such as newspapers, journals, and magazines, and had other profound consequences—but at the end of the day, we are just talking about […]
[…] Mitch Joel on his TwistImage blog states: It wasn’t too long ago that we debated how the Internet would kill newspapers because by the time the paper hit your porch in the morning, the content was already almost a day […]
The New York Times wants federal regulation of Google’s editorial objectivity.
A short video tour of the Financial Times’ new iPad app — and a question.
What we know is important, but how we interpret it is vital. Getting the NYTimes/PowerPoint narrative right requires a little more complex knowledge.
David Pogue just published a post on the New York Times that quotes at its heart the statement, “Information wants to be free.” In the post, he notes that he’s pretty conflicted over the issue, and takes solace in the […]
UAL loses $1 billion in value, thanks to the power of apomediation combined with a mess in the metadata.
Image via Wikipedia The New York Times recently reported that George Orwell has started blogging. Or, rather, his diaries are being put online daily as part of a new blog. This is a fascinating blog to read. Each entry is […]
The Oxford English Dictionary’s overarching definition of the transitive verb “publish” is “to make public.” An early use, dating to 1382 is “to prepare and issue copies of (a book, newspaper, piece of music, etc.).” This is probably how most […]
It may seem impossible, but last month, the first couple to marry after meeting online celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary, according to a story in the Chicago Tribune. It may seem odd these days, but this 1983 story was a […]