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Sips from the firehose
A site that attempts to render the internet down into one easy-to consume mental beverage.
NMX – Blogger Tools
The blogging community is notoriously hard to please. Check out the vitriolic tweets directed at the poor victims who dared to sit onstage at the close of the NMX convention, talking about "Inventing the Future." Check out the silvery television-headed robots: Despite...
Inventing the Future at BlogWorld
Somehow, I expected more of a mad scientist's lab, with chortling henchmen. Or hench-Americans, as I hear they prefer to be addressed.... It is always dangerous to give a group of bloggers (should that be "a flamewar of bloggers"?) a stage and a microphone, and dare...
The Ongoing Digital Migration: Spin Magazine
Spin magazine is killing its print edition-tell me how paywalls would help this situation? I keep hearing over and over again that the demise of Murdoch's The Daily means that digital magazines don't work, the real solution to the revenue problems is to "fix the...
Stumbling towards a more truthful web
One of the growing problems on the internet is the inability of many users to go beyond knee-jerk analysis of the information that comes gushing at us via the broadband firehose. And yeah, this is pretty much a natural for this blog.
Year-end Prediction Season Begins (with a look back)
At the end of every year, magazines, newspapers, pundits and chuckleheaded bloggers like me all do what we used to call "thumbsuckers" back in my old newspapering days. We kick our feet back on our desks, stare up at the stained asbestos-laced soundbrick ceiling and...
Training Ukraining Professors and Journalists in Kiev
Technological advances, more sophisticated and accomplished reporters – but troubling long-term trends This year, I took the lovely and learned Janine Warner along to the University of Mohyla’s institute for the Digital Future of Journalism (and yes, I am...