We’re talking about progress on the internet? The product newspapers offer up online these days could barely be described as marginally better than the product three years ago. Steve Outing gives newspapers a B-, which is generous enough to keep newspaper-dot-coms thinking maybe if they do blogs better and new video each day then they’ll […]
Newspaper-dot-coms aren’t living up to the promise of the internet. Yeah, and I don’t live up to plenty of my promises either. Big whoop — but, big difference. Unlike me, there’s a newspaper in every city, a newspaper that most residents of its community can name. It’s a commonly-known product, and the longer the lag […]
Last night I was talking with my disillusioned journalist friend Aidan about the staff cuts that just hit a couple of newspapers, and how many older reporters left, and how much more than just bodies the newspapers lost. With all these newspaper buy-outs, lay-offs and walk-outs goes massive amounts of institutional knowledge.
It doesn’t have to […]
So, this is one of the conversation-building projects on this blog: The Open-Ended Question. While it may be optimistic to hope for much response here, being a new blog that’s not even read by my parents (yet), the wonder of blogs is that you can answer this question a month or a year from […]
Steve Yelvington, a big name in the online journalism world, wrote last week about many programmers’ unnecessary desire to reinvent the wheel with every new gig. Near the end of his post he writes (emphasis added):
Vernor Vinge’s notion of the “programmer archaeologist” really is about discovering what’s already out there, and placing it into valuable […]
Welcome to Joe Think. I’m Joe, an online news web developer (and former producer) at a daily newspaper in Denver. I think a lot.
In the course of this blog I plan to start conversations about online news processes and practice (because I’d like to think I’m good at what I do) and online news ‘theory’ […]