I turned Buzz off, and deleted all my posts. I’m not as upset as everybody else seems to be about privacy. I just think all the buzzing is annoying. I use Google primarily for productivity. Google Docs, Gmail, Google Reader are all tools that help me do my work more efficiently. Twitter is more [...]
Read the story »Now that Apple has finally officially dropped the iPad bomb, technology experts are pretty much losing their shit about how the new iBooks interface and super slick design for reading will save the publishing industry. But if you really want to know what will happen to publishing in the future, ask a “comic book guy” [...]
Read the story »I’m a little ashamed that I contribute so unabashedly to the massive pools of ink bits spilled over the death of traditional journalism and what it means for our democracy, but in truth it’s a crucial question. As a young writer who has more or less committed myself to reporting the news for the rest [...]
Read the story »Esquire launched their monthly iPhone App. I have to say, it’s real slick. Too bad I just spent a whole eight buckaroos to subscribe for 14 issues. I wonder if they’ll offer the app to subscribers in some sort of packaged way (i.e. get the digital subscription and the print for x amount), because I’m [...]
Read the story »Check out piece by Current on pigeon racing. The pacing is excellent, and the deft storytelling highlights the engaging techniques that make Current a leader in journalism’s tech-transition.
I have to say I’m a little peeved at Current. For a news organization that is supposedly a groundbreaking alternative to the MSM, Current has been remarkably silent [...]
Read the story »So wtf… is it “Internet” or “internet”?
I’m one of those people who those people who can’t let the little red and green squiggles trail behind my cursor.
Well it turns out that Microsoft Word is right to go into convulsions when you fail to capitalize Internet. According to the Chicago Manual of Style, this is still [...]
What: Crappy Journalists Getting It
Who they Are, What’s Being Done to them, by Whom:
(Flickr User: Blue$treak)
Matt Smith from SF Weekly, Called an “unfair, unbalanced, malfeasant journalist,” by a variety of San Francisco publications but most eloquently by SFAppeal
We expect our local reporters to have opinions; that’s what makes them flavorful. And to see Smith write [...]
“My Social Network on Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, and MyLogBlog.” Photo Credit Flickr User: luc legay
In the last couple of posts I’ve been discussing how recent popularity of Twitter shows some of the benefits and pitfalls of the rising tide/juggernaut that is social networking. I thought I’d take a small case study to look at how [...]
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