Ben Brooks has a great post that gets straight to the point about a business that, suddenly, is wide-open with possibilities again: Local classified ads. I can’t be the only one that thinks Craigslist is ripe for a disruption, because there is so much wrong with it that goes beyond the hideous and user hostile […]
Jay Rosen just asked this on Twitter: So how come no one’s writing about the odd and forbidding art of eluding the news when you want to watch a race on tape delay in prime time? The answer I had when I was with The Baltimore Sun now seems quaint, based on what I’m seeing […]
Mark Twain didn’t actually say “I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” (It was Blaise Pascal.) But the point holds. Writing short and tight takes time. Which might explain why the news web site I used to run has 485 links today on its home page. It’s just easier […]
You know why newspapers have had such a hard time dealing with the Internet? It’s because, back in what seems like pre-history, before we all had near-ubiquitous access to anything and everything, wired and wireless, the daily newspaper functioned a whole lot like the Internet, only thrown onto our porches by kids on bicycles. There was the […]
While papers start cutting back on the number of days they publish in print, they shouldn’t miss a great opportunity to make those days they do print be really special. Sunday, for instance. Remember The San Francisco Panorama? It was an issue of McSweeney’s that took the form of a fat Sunday newspaper. It cost a […]
I’m not going to pretend that I’m surprised that there is so much hand-wringing, beating-of-breast and genuine concern over the New Orleans Times-Picayune decision to go to a digital-first footing. Anytime there’s a reduction in the frequency of the presses running, there is going to be an immediate and visceral reaction. I get that. And, […]