Posts filed under “today’s thoughts”
Today’s Thought: We need to build cool shit
Rob Curley has had an unofficial mission statement at the newspapers he has worked at: Build cool shit. That’s the only way we are going to turn around the journalism industry. With that in mind, here is some cool Web journalism shit to check out: Lawrence Journal-World – Anything this paper and its parent company [...]
All the posts that could have been
Any blogger will tell you that for all the posts that make it an awful lot don’t. Many posts just get deleted, while others morph into something radically different than originally intended. I still have some partially-written posts waiting to be published. I’m not sure if any of them will ever see the light of [...]
Today’s Thought: Intellectual curiosity
Are most journalists intellectually curious enough? If they were they wouldn’t be asking for someone to give them training in new skills. Rather they would have already discovered new — in demand — skills, and they wouldn’t be afraid to seek out help to learn new skills on their own. And isn’t an intellectually curious [...]
Today’s Thought: Journalists, think different
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t [...]
Today’s Thought: Journalists must trust their audiences
“Before the public can learn to trust the powerful, the powerful must learn to trust the public.” – Jeff Jarvis Too many journalists don’t trust the public — AKA their audience. Many believe that journalists are the arbiters of information and truth. This is why so many journalism companies have been slow to adopt blogs, [...]
Today’s Thought: Look to the future
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” – Wayne Gretzky. So where are you looking?
Today’s Thought: Life is short
Life is too short to spend your days toiling away at a job you don’t like. With an imminent recession facing this country that will surely rock the journalism industry further to the core, it’s a good time to reevaluate what each of us is doing. A lot of journalism companies aren’t worth working for [...]
Today’s Thought: It’s time to care about the other side
Journalists have long believed their only concern was content. Business concerns, metrics, marketing, etc aren’t important to those journalists. Business staffers conversely have cared little about the content side of the business and the effects their practices have had on the content side. The definition of a dysfunctional company is one where content producers don’t [...]
Today’s Thought: Money isn’t everything
“Our question is always, ‘How do we grow in a way that is leveraged?’ We always lead with the user experience and think about the money secondarily.” – John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla. That leads us to Today’s Thought: Companies that are only concerned about making money will make little, while companies focused on creating [...]
Today’s Thought: The Web moves at the Speed of Now
The Web moves very fast. Each day you’re not improving, you’re getting worse. Standing still is a death sentence.