Small Initiatives

Well, you’d never see this as a promotion from an American newspaper. I just caught this tweet from the Guardian’s Comment is free, in full: “We can’t keep fucking flying...

Listening to Stephen Fry’s podcast this morning, I heard this defense of America against cruel British stereotype: …[I]f there is one misapprehension about Americans that annoys me more...

Google now lets us explore places on its maps via the photos and videos we, the people, submit. When I saw on a panel with Marisa Mayer at DLD in Munich, she showed a map with dots covering the globe...

Nick Denton — who’s doing his best to destroy all journalism, of course — goes after the most sacred of cows (at his most profane website) arguing that it is time to for The New...

NBC is going to start a 24-hour local TV channel in New York, competing with lots of other players: Time Warner’s NY1 and Cablevision’s News12s, not to mention newspaper video — see...

Seth Godin dissects the language in just one piece of coverage of the campaign and reminds us all that what news media are really selling is drama: . . . [A]s William Randolph Hearst taught us a long...

It’s a hoot to see yourself translated and subtitled. Here’s the Elektrischer Reporter’s new video of me when I was in Munich for DLD. Below, that’s me saying, do what you do...

My daughter, Julia, and Jay Rosen’s daughter, Sylvie, have a blog together. They blog about what they know about and care about: American Girl. Yes, it’s a wonderful bit of symmetry that...

Leise Reichelt says that the syncopated updates we share publicly with friends and followers in Twitter (and blogs and Flickr….) add up to what she called “ambient...

Dell has started another blog with execs and employees talking about personal technology. It’s called Your Blog but I’m not sure why; it seems to be their blog or, from their perspective,...

World News Tonight tonight had Jake Tapper acting as if he had a big exclusive investigative report: Hillary Clinton is now rich! And she’s a liberal! Irony? He thinks so. Uh, what about...

Below, I linked to Colin Crawford announcing IDG’s transition from being primarily a print to primarily a digital company a year ago and today the NY Times wrote about it. Colin follows up...

Bill Maher says that Hillary Clinton argues like a girl.

The Star-Tribune disputes a New York Post story that it’s about to go bankrupt but I wouldn’t say this sounds positively optimistic (my emphasis): “The Star Tribune currently has...

My Guardian column this week about wine wizard Gary Vaynerchuk: * * * Before you read this, do me a favour and go to WineLibraryTV.com Be prepared for a jet engine in your face. That blast of...

Reading Vin Crosbie’s piece about the resistance to change and general obstructionism he has found teaching at journalism school (he doesn’t say it, but he has spent the year at the...

The best analysis of the Microhoo has been Kara Swisher’s, particularly her explanation of how Google ended up as the winner. While Yahoo (YHOO) might not have wanted to be acquired by...

The Wall Street Journal reports on Facebook being used as a tool of dissent in Egypt. The activism on Facebook is part of larger efforts by youths across the Arab world to use technology — from...

Monday’s Times has a feature on IDG, the trade publisher, making the successful transition from print to digital. (Actually, the company talked about crossing that bridge a year ago.) Says the...

Reading Vin Crosbie’s piece about the resistance to change and general obstructionism he has found teaching at journalism school (he doesn’t say it, but he has spent the year at the...