J-schools are far from blameless for the lagging state of modern journalism, but at least Medill is doing something about it. Through an ad in the free version of Twitterific, I just saw that the …
If you had a working Wayback Machine, what would you tell yourself in 1998?
Pat Thornton, who blogs as The Journalism Iconoclast, posted a fun thought-puzzle the other day: If you could jump into the time machine and go back ten years, what would you tell yourself in 1998 …
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Great news: Tampa hates the Tribune redesign
On Monday, The Tampa Tribune joined the list of redesigned US newspapers. But Tampa, under editor Janet Coats, went farther with the rethinking than most, putting all the news and sports into one main …
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The sky? Not falling.
Terry Heaton is also thinking about online advertising. That’s a pretty healthy-looking chart, and I agree with the analysts who don’t believe that online advertising will crash and burn as a …
Boom. Bust. Boom.
I displayed the little totem pictured to the left in my office for the past 7-8 years as a constant reminder to myself and anyone who came to visit of how things aren't always what they seem. Flush …
Holovaty to jazz up Google? (He says no.)
According to Valleywag, journo-tech whiz Adrian Holovaty of Everyblock.org and all-around likable oracle may be headed to Google, presumably to do some non-evil journalistic data stuff. Google wants …
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