Posts filed under “off topic”
Get your daily beast from Tina Brown
Perhaps the biggest revelation from ONA 08 is that Tina Brown is forming a new Web startup dedicated to celebrating the life and times of the world’s great beasts. I think the site is a great idea. First, everyone loves beasts, especially daily ones. How Brown went from being editor of Vanity Fair and The [...]
ONA 08 review and thoughts
ONA 08 ended two days ago, and I spent all of yesterday recovering. It was a great time, and I met a lot of talented and interesting people. Maybe if I met less people, I would have gotten more work done yesterday. The Good: The sessions — The key to any good conference are the [...]
Going to be at ONA? I’ll see you there
I hope to see all of you at ONA starting the 11th. I’ll be there, and I’ll also be appearing on an ethics panel. It should be a great time and a good way to find out what others in the industry are up to. If you’re interested in learning more about beat blogging or [...]
Microsoft, worst customer support ever
Maybe it shouldn’t even be called customer support at Microsoft. More like spend 2 hours of your life getting no help. No help whatsoever. I recently purchased an XBOX 360 Elite (you know, the expensive model), and I went to redeem an XBOX Live subscription card I had lying around. I got an error when [...]
A little experiment in making monies
Or as my cat would say, “Monies, I can has it?” Yes, it is true, I’m going to start experimenting with Google Ad Sense on this blog. The main reason is that I want to better understand how much money blogs can make. Journalism needs to be able to make money on the Web. Let [...]
Get a modern internship at philly.com
Philly.com has several openings for internships that Yoni Greenbaum says aren’t your average internships. You won’t be getting coffee or doing other menial work, but rather doing actual work. And by actual work, I don’t mean just collecting clips to put in a binder, but real, modern Web work. Imagine that! At Philly.com you won’t [...]
Journalists leaving newspapers because of culture and corporate
More and more talented journalists (often young) are leaving journalism for other industries. Not because they fear being laid off or fired, but because the culture at newspapers (especially newspaper corporations) doesn’t allow for the kind of innovation necessary to save newspapers. Case in point: Braden Nicholson left the Indianapolis Star because corporate knew how [...]
I wouldn’t fire too many copy editors
Bad things can happen: I’m just saying.
I may be posting less…
But I’m saving more links to my delicious feed in the right column, and I’m conversing more than ever on Twitter. And, of course, I’m blogging at BeatBlogging.Org. If you’re looking for beat reporters pushing the practice using online tools and social networking, that’s the place to be. Want to modernize your beat reporting? Go [...]
Today’s Thought: Are the days of the metro newspaper officially numbered?
It was another crushing week of buyouts and layoffs at daily newspapers all over the country. The Palm Beach Post will be seeing almost half of its editorial positions slashed by the end of summer. The San Jose Mercury News will be down to 155 editorial employees by the end of the week from a [...]