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» 2008Sep 2, 2008
I’m amused at the vision of 15,000 journalists sitting with their thumbs up their asses in St. Paul yesterday with nothing to type while Gustav filled cable news. Without cable news, of course, there is no need to have …
Tagged: default
Sep 2, 2008
Sorry, blog friends. I remain in life-bankruptcy, doing nothing but edit. I have a week to go to get all my revisions in on the manuscript and so I’ve been locked in my office feeling as if I’m playing a video game …
Tagged: default
Aug 27, 2008
I continue to neglect you, blog family, because I am in the final (I hope) throes of editing the book and school just began. I spoke to the new class yesterday in the start of the interactive journalism class. Here are …
Tagged: default, journalism, cuny
Aug 22, 2008
I’m an ignoramus about sports so take that dose of salt first. But while watching Olympic soccer, it occurred me to that the sport never took off in America because we prefer results to process. I twittered that and a …
Aug 21, 2008
Steve Baker’s book, The Numerati, is about tracking and predicting people’s behavior based on their data, and so he and his publisher are taking a page from the book to try to target advertising for it. Somewhat …
Aug 19, 2008
For those who were interested in this post asking about sponsorship for my book, please see the discussion there and Rick Smolan’s answers to some of their questions and concerns.
Aug 18, 2008
This week’s Guardian column asks whether editors are a luxury we can afford. (There’s a separate version online here where comments can and I suspect will be made.)
Tagged: default, newspapers, journalism, guardian
Aug 15, 2008
I was talking with a media exec who started a blog ad network — bless him — but who I thought was taking too high a share of the revenue: at least half. That’s a natural reflex, perfectly understandable: Get what you …
Tagged: default, networks, wwgd, newbiznews
Aug 14, 2008
USA Today reports that the number of journalists covering the conventions this fall will remain at the same level as 2004 and 2000: 15,000 of them. What a waste. The outcome of the conventions is known. There will be …
Tagged: default, journalism, conventions
Aug 13, 2008
A few fascinating tidbits from Jim Cramer’s interview with Google’s Eric Schmidt today: * Google accounts for 0.7 percent of GDP, according to Goldman Sachs. * Cramer says the ad market is $600 billion and asks …