Last week I was reading some online commentary about a piece by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone, this one about Goldman Sachs. I first read Taibbi in Spanking the Donkey, and I usually like the dude’s cynical, New-Journalism-style writing, even when it’s a bit sensational. The Goldman Sachs thing — at least the parts I […]
I look forward to the answer to this question, posed and soon to be tested by my aces at Slate: Who’s Better Informed, Newspaper Readers or Web Surfers? The only part that confuses me is whether newspaper websites are OK for the web users to read. If not, then that does hurt the web team’s […]
You heard it here first: Neverland is the new Graceland. Man, what a week for news. It’s been a while since we had such a contrast of the important (Iran) and the junk-ridden (Transformers 2 = 2nd highest grossing opening ever). My vote for biggest story: Considering that I live in the U.S., it has […]
So my old company is reverting to its even older self: Time Warner and AOL To Separate I’m curious to see who will buy AOL and what they think is valuable. They have a decent development team down there, so I’d imagine that gets some interest, but otherwise it’ll be interesting to see.
This is certainly the ruffest consumer technology in a long time: Scan a barcode with the Red Laser application, and it’ll return product reviews, price comparisons and all the other useful info online. Plus it’s got an open SDK, so once other phones start adding in the iPhone-style laser device, I imagine some permutation of […]
Hey, long time between posts up in here. That’s unlikely to change until I (ideally) find an internship for summer in the next few weeks, but in the meantime I changed how I keep up with the web world thanks to my newly deemed-most-useful Firefox add-on, Morning Coffee. By that I mean I’m about four […]
I subscribed to P. Diddy’s Twitter feed last week, and it is a highlight of my day each time I log in. It’s a nice reminder each day that anybody can make it in this country, even the guy who writes these: Man I wanna be GREAT! I wanna make the WORLD A BETTER PLACE!!! […]
I logged in to Facebook today and saw this in my News Feed: “Don Graham and Albert Gore are now friends.” The liberal media conspiracy is real?
Seeing as how I grab lots of images for my posts, like the photo by my old employer TIME.com in this post, I figured it was fair to elaborate on my own beliefs on borrowing images across the web: everybody wins. My photo-editor friend Maria, also formerly of TIME.com, said it best when she noted […]
I read this piece two days ago with news-industry glee. Yes, glee: Christian Science Paper to End Daily Print Edition, NY Times The CSM is taking the bold step that all newspapers are going to have to take in the next 15-20 years or so: moving solely to the web. They’re an ideal first mover […]