It’s Sunday, and talking heads say maybe it’s time for papers to panic… one quote that struck me from that article was the Charlotte copy editor who said “We are all just kind of stuck in that old model and we haven’t figured out how to get out of it yet.”
Advice is cheap, and man […]
KillTheCliche.com fell into my rss reader today (via delicious’ most-popular journalism-tagged links). It’s an idea I wanted to do myself, but, well, in the war of ideas many fall victim to Mr. Not-Enough-Time’s axe.
Anyway, Kill The Cliche measures cliches in articles from The Boston Globe, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Financial Times […]
This winter I upgraded the forum software that powers Neighbors (the Denver Post’s forum / blog / photo / article commenting system), started work on the Denver Post’s first Django-powered application, helped sheperd some Newsgator-based widgets out the door, launched HappyJournalist.com, and, well, and that’s about it. Here are the details:
Upgrading Neighbors (the Post’s forum […]
I read another baby-boomer hand-wring piece about the way newspapers used to be on the San Francisco Chronicle’s website tonight. It got me up enough to register for the site, click the activation link in the email and write a comment.
This is what the lady wrote:
Sure, the Internet is a wonderful place to be. […]
This is what people were clicking on off my reading list from February 2008.
Ten things journalists can do to reinvent journalism
YouTube by the Numbers: “Tim Wintle of Rubberductions forwarded me a pointer to a new piece of research which analyses viewership for YouTube videos in the first month.”
The Pothole Paradox: Why Building The Geographic Web […]
AngryJournalist launched a couple weeks ago as an anonymous confessional for, well, angry journalists. It asks the question: Why are you angry today?
Not all journalists are angry, and in the spirit of celebrating these dark times, I give you HappyJournalist, which asks the question, Why are you happy (to be a journalist) today?
Enjoy.