Category Archives: today’s thoughts

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

“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 … Continue reading →

“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” – Wayne Gretzky. So where are you looking?

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

“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 … Continue reading →

The Web moves very fast. Each day you’re not improving, you’re getting worse. Standing still is a death sentence.