Every single day, almost every mainstream news source in America offers live updates throughout the day on a few metrics which have almost no meaning for most...
For about ten years, Slate has had an intermittent series of articles that explain how to pronounce names of people who are in the news . As someone whose...
I was away traveling for the past few weeks, and upon my return, I asked my Twitter followers a simple question : "I’ve been completely offline for all of...
In his post this weekend , Rex Sorgatz points out that “mainstream media is hard”. It’s a truth I know firsthand — I used to work both in the music industry and...
Corey Spring has broken the details of a story that no one in traditional journalism had figured out yet. Wrestler Chris Benoit’s murder-suicide seemed to have...
The gist: A lighthearted unscientific poll that was created as a PR ploy for a tech company is quickly evolving into a “real” news story, being treated as fact...
In case it isn’t obvious enough by now, contemporary newspapers should be thinking of information presentation in the context of applications, not just as...
A list of things that have brightened my day today: Really good support from NewsGator . I’m always glad people rave about our support team at Six Apart, and...
Okay, not President, but Editor in Chief. Wired News (the online arm, not the print magazine) is looking to hire a new EiC . I think they should hire Andy Baio...
If you haven’t read Malcolm Gladwell’s “ Something Borrowed yet, go ahead and read it. I’ll wait. I’ts more than 6500 words, but it’s considered required...
Making the bold leap from merely waiting for Leander Kahney to watch Blogdex as this link rises, I’m actually going to try to make a Journalism Request: As...
Since, as expected, AOL Time Warner is pulling its most popular magazines behind its subscription walls , I figure it’s only a matter of time until someone sets...