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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:44:12 -0700

A media sector just waiting for disruption
The Princeton Press announced this week that it would be offering hundreds of its textbooks via Amazon’s Kindle...
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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:31:53 -0700

One down, one to go
The kidney stone blasting went well, and despite a couple of painful bouts of passing remnants yesterday, I’m doing...
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Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:57:09 -0700

Adventures in healthcare (revisited)
The coming week is going to be, well, interesting for yours truly. Tuesday: Kidney stones blasted with sound waves. General...
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Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:27:57 -0700

Despite great services, Google is always all about Google
The inescapable reality of doing business online as a local media company is that Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and a host of other...
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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:46:56 -0700

The tribe known as “the professional press”
Jay Rosen has penned an important piece that articulates the conundrum for the professional press in a way that should help a...
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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:46:56 -0700

George Carlin at the Pearly Gates
St. Peter: Welcome to heaven, George. George: I’m surprised you let me in. After all, I haven’t exactly been kind...
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Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:33:38 -0700

Stupider or smarter? You be the judge.
Few people tell it like Stowe Boyd. This weekend, Boyd added his considerable insight to a fascinating discussion that has...
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Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:02:19 -0700

R.I.P. George Carlin
I’m saddened this morning with the passing of my generation’s comedian, George Carlin. Comics, poets and artists...
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Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:49:21 -0700

The bronze disruption
This is a hilarious view of the current media disruption through the comedy of That Mitchell and Webb Look and, of course,...
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Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:28:19 -0700

Who controls journalism’s future?
The statements by James Poniewozik of TIME in the entry below have been tugging at me ever since I read them, for Poniewozik...
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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:37:38 -0700

Waiting for the AP’s “guidelines”
The AP has settled its case with The Drudge Retort and issued a remarkably vague statement about it this morning. Rogers...
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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:37:37 -0700

The changing relationship between blogs and the press
Do yourself a favor and read this great piece by James Poniewozik of TIME on the shifting roles of the press and blogs. There...
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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:42:30 -0700

Web 2.0 reaches critical mass
I first became familiar with the term “critical mass” in the early 1980s as producer of The 700 Club. Most people...
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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:26:12 -0700

I'm Joining Craigslist in July (by Jeremy Zawodny)
I think this is a great fit and look forward to how you help Craigslist move forward. We all gain here. The only loser is Yahoo!
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Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:29:07 -0700

The PGA tour suddenly got boring
“These guys are good” is the slogan of the PGA Tour, but there are really two tours — the one when Tiger...
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Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:52:39 -0700

Resting Wikipedia’s case
The Encyclopedia Britannica opens its wall just a bit.
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Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:55:27 -0700

Mark Cuban is wrong even when he’s right
Mark Cuban is his usual out-of-focus self with a post (Hulu is kicking Youtube’s ass) declaring Hulu the winner over...
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Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:25:40 -0700

A new responsibility for journalists?
Mike Orren is asking important questions about journalistic responsibility in an era when online search goes a long way toward...
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Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:25:40 -0700

Piling on the AP
The AP’s foolish blunder in trying to enforce its view of fair use is getting more and more coverage in the blogosphere,...
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Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:58:08 -0700

Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog � Blog Archive � The passing of a celebrity journalist
Mel, this is an excellent comment, and I agree completely about Russert. Here's the thing on local tough questions: the "journalists" we hire in local markets have neither the life experience, job experience or knowledge (much less common sense) to ask...
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Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:33:20 -0700

On getting older
I’m in a bit of an odd mood today — retrospective, I guess, but also a tad anxious, because I’m about to have...
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Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:33:20 -0700

Annenberg shutters the Online Journalism Review
This one is pretty hard to believe. The Online Journalism Review is shuttering after a decade, according to the...
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Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:17:02 -0700

The A.P.’s unjustifiable risk
The Associated Press entered highly dangerous territory last week when it sent take down notices to a publication (a.k.a. blog)...
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Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:09:36 -0700

What does Yahoo’s deal with the devil mean to the consortium?
Two of the top tech observers are drumming a death march for Yahoo in the wake of yesterday’s big announcement that the...
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Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:09:36 -0700

Johnny Virgil: the birth of an internet hit
When upstate New York blogger Johnny Virgil discovered a 1977 JC Penney catalog in the attic of his wife’s...
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