Amazing
Last night Mary and I attended an outdoor concert at the Wolf Trap Center for Performing Arts with friends. On a perfect summer night, we...
Read MoreOrange County-on-the-Ganges
The Orange County Register confirmed it will outsource copy editing and page layout to an editorial services company based outside New...
Read MoreCatch on a string at PdF
At this week’s Personal Democracy Forum, a sponsor distributed a low-tech, but highly effective stress toy to attendees willing to listen...
Read MoreA test of leadership
I’ve suggested, among others, that leadership – or, more accurately, the lack of it — is at the heart of the news industry’s...
Read MoreHow to do it
An isometric landscape, Web Trend Map 3 pins down nearly 300 of the most successful and influential websites plotted against the metaphor...
Read MoreNumber Three
The thing about innovation is that you know it when you see it. One version comes from Tribune Co., which has been exuberant about...
Read MoreThe next big thing comes from, ah, you
Nokia, which is obsessive about consumer research, is showing the world how to innovate from the outside-in by collecting ideas globally...
Read MoreA fresh spin on news
Check out the News Cube on the redesigned Washington Times site. Click the arrows on the left or right and the Cube flips to the top...
Read MoreWe’re all in this together
A lot of people have emailed me about my remarks, considered provocative by some, at the Interactive Media Conference in Las Vegas....
Read MoreStage One: Newspapers are a growth business
No need to fret over those troubling layoffs, sinking revenues, tanking valuations, migrating audiences, declining influence, or even that...
Read MoreMark your calendar for We Media Miami 09: Feb. 24-26, 2009
Our annual gathering for the global We Media Community will return to Miami Feb. 24-26, 2009. Registration and sponsorship details will be...
Read MoreThe future is, um, sigh, devoured by the present
Start the week off right and consider the big issues and ideas that will define your future and our shared future. Start with a good laugh,...
Read MoreThe burn
Last week we described the newspaper business as a satellite falling out of orbit. This week it appears to be burning up in the...
Read MoreHow to be an editor
Christy Bradford, who taught me how to be an editor, died late last week at her home in Kansas City. She had been teaching journalism at...
Read MoreTypecasting
“There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools,” said the early 20th Century...
Read More
